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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.
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