14-letter words containing c, o, t, u
- punctuationist — a person who punctuates a text
- puncture wound — injury: perforation
- put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
- pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
- quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .
- qualifications — Plural form of qualification.
- quality factor — a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20
- quantification — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
- quasi contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
- quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- quasi-constant — not changing or varying; uniform; regular; invariable: All conditions during the three experiments were constant.
- quasi-contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
- quetzalcoatlus — A large toothless pterosaur of the genus Quetzalcoatlus.
- quinquecostate — having five lines or ribs
- quizzification — mockery
- quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
- quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- radioacoustics — the science and technology of the production, transmission, and reproduction of sounds carried by radio waves.
- rainbow cactus — an erect stiff cactus, Echinocereus pectinatus rigidissimus, of Arizona and Mexico, having a cylindrical body, numerous interlocking spines, and pink flowers.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
- re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
- reconstitution — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstruction — an act of reconstructing.
- reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- reintroduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
- resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
- ribbon-cutting — a ceremony marking the official opening of a site, the commencement of its construction, etc., typically involving the cutting of a ribbon suspended as across an entrance
- ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
- rossel current — a seasonal Pacific Ocean current, a branch of the South Equatorial Current, flowing W and NW past New Guinea.
- rostral column — a memorial column having sculptures representing the rams of ancient ships.
- routing policy — (networking) Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
- run counter to — to have a contrary effect or action to
- run its course — (of something) to complete its development or action
- sanguification — hematopoiesis.