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11-letter words containing c, o, t, u

  • reluctation — opposition, struggle, resistance
  • resurrector — to raise from the dead; bring to life again.
  • rev counter — A rev counter is an instrument in a car or an aeroplane which shows the speed of the engine.
  • rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
  • rock thrush — any of several Old World thrushes of the genus Monticola, usually having bluish plumage, especially M. saxatilis, of Europe.
  • rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
  • rocky mount — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • roots music — reggae, esp when regarded as authentic and uncommercialized
  • rotary club — a local club of business and professional men that is a member of a world-wide organization of similar clubs (Rotary International) devoted to serving the community and promoting world peace.
  • rotor cloud — a cloud within and around which the air is rotating about a horizontal axis, occurring in the lee of a large mountain barrier.
  • route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
  • rustication — Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
  • sacculation — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
  • saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
  • sansculotte — (originally) a revolutionary of the poorer class
  • sapotaceous — belonging to the Sapotaceae, the sapodilla family of plants.
  • sarcomatous — any of various malignant tumors composed of neoplastic cells resembling embryonic connective tissue.
  • scotomatous — loss of vision in a part of the visual field; blind spot.
  • scottsbluff — a city in W Nebraska, on the North Platte River.
  • scoutmaster — the leader or officer in charge of a band of scouts.
  • scriptorium — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
  • scrumptious — very pleasing, especially to the senses; delectable; splendid: a scrumptious casserole; a scrumptious satin gown.
  • second unit — an additional crew on a film production, usually used at a second location for filming crowd scenes, exteriors, and other shots that do not require the principal actors.
  • shuttlecock — Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown.
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
  • sock puppet — a hand puppet made out of a sock.
  • soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
  • solicitudes — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
  • sound truck — a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.
  • spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • speculatory — a place suitable for observation
  • sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
  • spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
  • spiculation — formation into spicules.
  • statcoulomb — the electrostatic unit of a quantity of electricity, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 coulomb and equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one statampere.
  • stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
  • stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
  • stock-route — a public trail having right of way across private properties and over which cattle and sheep may be herded to grazing grounds or to market.
  • stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
  • stonecutter — a person who cuts or carves stone.
  • stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
  • storm cloud — raincloud before storm
  • stretch out — lie down, sprawl
  • strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
  • sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • sub-project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
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