12-letter words containing c, o, t, u
- nonrecurrent — not recurrent.
- not counting — excluding
- not much cop — If you say that something is not much cop, you mean that it is not very good, and is disappointing.
- nothing much — not a lot
- noun adjunct — a noun that occurs before and modifies another noun, as toy in toy store or tour in tour group.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- nullipotence — Quality of being nullipotent.
- obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- obmutescence — persistent silence
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
- obstructions — Plural form of obstruction.
- occupational — of or relating to an occupation, trade, or calling: occupational guidance.
- octastichous — relating to a particular coiled distribution of leaves on the stem that is characterized by having eight leaves per coil on the stem
- octopetalous — containing or consisting of eight petals
- octosepalous — having or consisting of eight sepals
- of substance — wealthy
- off the cuff — with little or no preparation; extemporaneous; impromptu: a speaker with a good off-the-cuff delivery.
- off-the-cuff — with little or no preparation; extemporaneous; impromptu: a speaker with a good off-the-cuff delivery.
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- old mine cut — a brilliant cut, common in the 19th century, retaining a relatively high proportion of the original stone and having a large culet and small table compared to modern brilliants.
- olericulture — the cultivation of vegetables for the home or market.
- on the couch — undergoing psychoanalysis
- open account — current account (def 1).
- open circuit — a discontinuous circuit through which no current can flow.
- open cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
- open couplet — a couplet that concludes with a run-on line.
- opendocument — (file format, standard) (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) An XML file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations, databases and word processing. OpenDocument was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium. It is based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite. OpenDocument is an open standard, i.e. freely available and implementable. Compare OOXML.
- opium addict — someone who is addicted to the dried juice extracted from the unripe seed capsules of the opium poppy
- optoacoustic — relating to the relationship between light and sound
- orbicularity — The quality of being orbicular.
- oreopithecus — a genus of fossil primate from the Miocene coal deposits of Italy, formerly considered to be a possible hominid.
- ortho-cousin — parallel cousin.
- orthocousins — the children of two brothers or two sisters
- otacousticon — (now rare) An instrument to aid hearing, such as an ear trumpet or hearing aid.
- out of court — If a legal matter is decided or settled out of court, it is decided without legal action being taken in a court of law.
- out of focus — blurred, indistinct
- out of place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- out of reach — beyond arm's length
- out of scale — If something is out of scale with the things near it, it is too big or too small in relation to them.
- out of stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- out of touch — not up to date
- out of voice — with the voice temporarily in a poor condition, esp for singing
- out of whack — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
- out to lunch — a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
- out-of-court — conducted or agreed upon between contending parties without court decision: an out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit.
- outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
- outcompeting — 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.