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

  • obscuration — the act of obscuring.
  • obstructing — Present participle of obstruct.
  • obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
  • occultation — Astronomy. the passage of one celestial body in front of another, thus hiding the other from view: applied especially to the moon's coming between an observer and a star or planet.
  • occupations — Plural form of occupation.
  • octandrious — having eight stamens.
  • outclassing — Present participle of outclass.
  • outcropping — Geology. a cropping out, as of a stratum or vein at the surface of the earth. the exposed portion of such a stratum or vein.
  • outcrossing — Present participle of outcross.
  • outdistance — to leave behind, as in running; outstrip: The winning horse outdistanced the second-place winner by five lengths.
  • outmatching — Present participle of outmatch.
  • outpouching — (pathology) evagination.
  • outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
  • outsourcing — (of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.
  • overcaution — excessive caution
  • overcutting — excessive cutting
  • perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
  • persecution — the act of persecuting.
  • pn junction — the boundary between two regions in a single crystal of a semiconductor: one region contains an electron acceptor and the other an electron donor
  • point count — a method of evaluating the strength of a hand by assigning a numerical value to high cards and to certain combinations and distributions of cards in the hand.
  • point coupe — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
  • policy unit — a body of political advisors to the British Prime Minister
  • 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
  • prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
  • productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • prolocution — an introductory remark or speech
  • 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.
  • publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
  • 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.
  • quezon city — a city on W central Luzon Island, in the Philippines, NE of Manila: former national capital (1948–76).
  • radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
  • 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.
  • reluctation — opposition, struggle, resistance
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • social unit — a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • spiculation — formation into spicules.
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