13-letter words containing c, o, u, t
- repunctuation — the act or process of punctuating differently or again
- resuscitation — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
- return-cocked — (of a cock bead) situated at an angle or arris.
- reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- rousseauistic — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
- running costs — The running costs of a business are the amount of money that is regularly spent on things such as salaries, heating, lighting, and rent.
- russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
- saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
- sanctimonious — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
- sansculottism — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
- school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- scotch crocus — a garden plant, Crocus biflorus, of southeastern Europe and Turkey, having purple-striped, yellow-throated flowers.
- scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- second nature — an acquired habit or tendency in one's character that is so deeply ingrained as to appear automatic: Neatness is second nature to him.
- security zone — an area controlled by security forces
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- self-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- semiautomatic — partly automatic.
- semiconductor — a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.
- sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- sex education — Sex education is education in schools on the subject of sexual activity and sexual relationships.
- share account — a savings account in a credit union.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- short account — the account of a short seller.
- short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
- short-circuit — Electricity. to make (an appliance, switch, etc.) inoperable by establishing a short circuit in. to carry (a current) as a short circuit.
- sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
- slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
- smooth muscle — involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of nonstriated, spindle-shaped cells.
- sociocultural — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and cultural elements.
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- sound effects — any sounds artificially produced, reproduced from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop; used in plays, films, etc
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- stalactitious — containing stalactites
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- stercoraceous — consisting of, resembling, or pertaining to dung or feces.
- stercorarious — stercoraceous
- stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
- stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
- stocking unit — A stocking unit is a measurement or number by which items are kept in inventory, for example by dozens, kilograms, or cases.