11-letter words containing c, o, t, u
- postscenium — a wing on either side of the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theatre where props could be stored and actors could prepare; a parascenium
- pot scourer — a small ball of wire or stiff plastic, or a flat piece of a rough fabric used for cleaning kitchen pots and pans
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- pouncet box — a small perfume box with a perforated lid.
- pound scots — pound2 (def 7).
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- precipitous — of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
- precomputer — designating the period prior to the introduction of computers; occurring or existing in this period
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- preoccupate — to influence or occupy the mind in advance
- prize court — a court whose function it is to adjudicate on prizes taken in war.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- procuratory — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- procurement — the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.
- producement — production
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- prolocution — an introductory remark or speech
- prolocutrix — a female prolocutor
- promiscuity — the state of being promiscuous.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- prosecutory — of, relating to, or concerned with prosecution.
- prosecutrix — a female prosecutor or plaintiff
- provocateur — a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- puerto rico — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
- pump-action — (of a shotgun or rifle) having an action that extracts the empty case, loads, and cocks the piece by means of a hand-operated lever that slides backward and forward; slide-action.
- punctilious — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- punctuation — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- purificator — the linen cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the chalice after each communicant has drunk from it.
- quezon city — a city on W central Luzon Island, in the Philippines, NE of Manila: former national capital (1948–76).
- quick ratio — A quick ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets minus inventories by current liabilities.
- radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- re-accustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- recatalogue — to catalogue (something, such as a book or collection of books) again
- reconducted — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- reconstruct — to construct again; rebuild; make over.
- recountment — the act or process of recounting or reciting something
- recuperator — a person or thing that recuperates.
- reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
- reeducation — to educate again, as for new purposes.
- refuctoring — (humour, programming) Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
- reinduction — the act of inducing, bringing about, or causing: induction of the hypnotic state.
- reinoculate — to inoculate again
- reintroduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.