11-letter words containing c, r, o, u, t
- outsourcing — (of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.
- overcaution — excessive caution
- overcurrent — a current of a magnitude that is greater than a limiting value, as the value at which a fuse melts.
- overcutting — excessive cutting
- overeducate — to educate too much
- overpicture — to describe or portray with exaggeration
- paramountcy — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- 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.
- persecutors — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persecutory — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- picturegoer — a person who goes to the cinema, esp frequently
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- polyculture — the raising at the same time and place of more than one species of plant or animal.
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- pop culture — cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
- pot scourer — a small ball of wire or stiff plastic, or a flat piece of a rough fabric used for cleaning kitchen pots and pans
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- precipitous — of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
- precomputer — designating the period prior to the introduction of computers; occurring or existing in this period
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- preoccupate — to influence or occupy the mind in advance
- prize court — a court whose function it is to adjudicate on prizes taken in war.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- procuratory — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- procurement — the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.
- producement — production
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- prolocution — an introductory remark or speech
- prolocutrix — a female prolocutor
- promiscuity — the state of being promiscuous.
- 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.
- prosecutory — of, relating to, or concerned with prosecution.
- prosecutrix — a female prosecutor or plaintiff
- provocateur — a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.
- puerto rico — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
- purificator — the linen cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the chalice after each communicant has drunk from it.
- quick ratio — A quick ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets minus inventories by current liabilities.
- radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- re-accustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.