11-letter words containing c, o, t, u
- optocoupler — An optoisolator.
- oracularity — Oracular speech or behaviour.
- ostreaceous — oyster-like
- otoacoustic — Of or pertaining to sounds generated by the inner ear.
- out of luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- out of sync — out of synchronization (with)
- out-compete — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- out-country — a remote area or region; hinterland.
- out-process — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- outclassing — Present participle of outclass.
- outcropping — Geology. a cropping out, as of a stratum or vein at the surface of the earth. the exposed portion of such a stratum or vein.
- outcrossing — Present participle of outcross.
- outdistance — to leave behind, as in running; outstrip: The winning horse outdistanced the second-place winner by five lengths.
- outer space — space beyond the atmosphere of the earth.
- outercourse — sexual activity between two or more people that does not involve penetration.
- outmatching — Present participle of outmatch.
- outpolitick — to surpass in politicking
- outpouching — (pathology) evagination.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- outsourcers — Plural form of outsourcer.
- outsourcing — (of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.
- overcaution — excessive caution
- overcurrent — a current of a magnitude that is greater than a limiting value, as the value at which a fuse melts.
- overcutting — excessive cutting
- overeducate — to educate too much
- overpicture — to describe or portray with exaggeration
- packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
- paramountcy — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- pate a chou — French Cookery. cream puff paste.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- persecutors — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persecutory — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- picturegoer — a person who goes to the cinema, esp frequently
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- pn junction — the boundary between two regions in a single crystal of a semiconductor: one region contains an electron acceptor and the other an electron donor
- pneumectomy — pneumonectomy.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- point count — a method of evaluating the strength of a hand by assigning a numerical value to high cards and to certain combinations and distributions of cards in the hand.
- point coupe — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- police motu — a pidginized version of the Motu language, used as a lingua franca in Papua, originally chiefly by the police
- policy unit — a body of political advisors to the British Prime Minister
- polyculture — the raising at the same time and place of more than one species of plant or animal.
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- pop culture — cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
- postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.