9-letter words containing c, o, u, r, t
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurest — Superlative form of obscure.
- obscurity — the state or quality of being obscure.
- obstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obstruct.
- occurrent — the action, fact, or instance of occurring.
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- outcharge — to charge more than
- outcrafty — to be craftier than
- outcrying — Present participle of outcry.
- outercoat — coat (def 1).
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
- outpriced — Simple past tense and past participle of outprice.
- outreckon — to surpass in reckoning
- outscored — Simple past tense and past participle of outscore.
- outscores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outscore.
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- outsource — (of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.
- outstruck — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- overacute — excessively acute
- overcount — To count more of something than are actually present, or to count one thing disproportionately more than another.
- pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- plutocrat — a member of a plutocracy.
- portulaca — any of various fleshy-leaved plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora, widely cultivated for its showy, variously colored flowers.
- power cut — break in electricity supply
- prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
- prosecute — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- quercitol — a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , obtained from acorns or oak bark: used chiefly in medicine.
- quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
- raceabout — a small, sloop-rigged racing yacht with a short bowsprit.
- raconteur — a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- razor cut — a fluffy hairstyle, usually tapering at the neck, trimmed by a razor
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- recompute — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- reconduct — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
- recontour — the outline of a figure or body; the edge or line that defines or bounds a shape or object.
- recountal — an act of recounting.
- recounted — to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
- recounter — someone who recounts or narrates a story
- red count — a count of the red cells in a person's blood.
- reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- rock dust — a crushed limestone sprayed on surfaces in mines to make coal dust incombustible in case of a gas explosion.
- rotachute — a device serving the same purpose as a parachute, in which the canopy is replaced by freely revolving rotor blades, used for the delivery of stores or recovery of missiles
- rough-cut — cut into small, irregular pieces (contrasted with fine-cut): rough-cut tobacco.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- ructation — an eructation or belch