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16-letter words containing c, t, u

  • public transport — fare-paying travel
  • publication date — the date on which a book or periodical is or is planned to be published.
  • publicity agency — an advertising agency; a firm that gets publicity for people or products
  • punctuation mark — any of a group of conventional marks or characters used in punctuation, as the period, comma, semicolon, question mark, or dash.
  • punctuationalism — punctuated equilibrium.
  • purchase request — A purchase request is a document detailing required items, the number required and when they will be required. Once approved it becomes a purchase order.
  • purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
  • pure watercolour — water-soluble pigment, applied in transparent washes and without the admixture of white pigment in the lighter tones
  • put a sock in it — be quiet!
  • put to the torch — to set fire to; burn down
  • pyroconductivity — conductivity brought about by the application of heat, especially in solids that are not conductors at normal temperatures.
  • quadricentennial — of, relating to, or marking the completion of a period of four hundred years.
  • quantum computer — a computer that makes use of the quantum states of electrons or other particles to store and process information as quantum bits.
  • quantum sufficit — as much as suffices; enough.
  • quasi-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • quasi-diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
  • quasi-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • quasi-scientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
  • quatercentennial — pertaining to or marking a period of 400 years.
  • question of fact — a question concerning the reality of an alleged event or circumstance in a trial by jury, usually determined by the jury.
  • quick with child — pregnant, esp being in an advanced state of pregnancy, when the movements of the fetus can be felt
  • radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rating community — an online community based around a website that allows members to rate each other's photographs, qualifications, etc, as well as those of applicants, and which only those approved by existing members are allowed to join
  • reaction turbine — a turbine driven by the reactive force of a fluid passing through the rotor blades.
  • real-time euclid — Real-time language, restriction to time-bounded constructs. ["Real-Time Euclid: A Language for Reliable Real-Time Systems", E. Kligerman et al, IEEE Trans Software Eng SE-12(9):941-1986-09-949].
  • rearguard action — an action fought by a rearguard
  • reconceptualized — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • recording studio — place where music is recorded
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • recursion theory — (theory)   The study of problems that, in principle, cannot be solved by either computers or humans.
  • refuse collector — someone who collects of rubbish and waste, usually in a rubbish or refuse truck, before final disposal
  • report structure — A report structure is a structure containing a reporting clause and a reported clause or a quote.
  • reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
  • republican party — one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: originated 1854–56.
  • research quantum — the standard by which the contribution to a university of individual academics is measured and on the basis of which universities receive government funding and academics are promoted
  • research student — a student studying for a doctoral award, that is, a PhD or an MPhil
  • residual current — an electric current that continues to flow in a device, etc when there is no voltage supply, due to electrons emitted by heat, etc
  • resonant circuit — A resonant circuit combines an inductor and capacitor to make a circuit that responds to a frequency.
  • reverse commuter — a commuter who lives in a city and commutes to a job in the suburbs.
  • riccati equation — a differential equation, dy/dx + fy 2 + gy + h = 0, where f, g, and h are functions of x.
  • rich tea biscuit — any of various semisweet biscuits
  • right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
  • rock creek butte — a mountain in NE Oregon: highest peak in the Blue Mountains. 9106 feet (2777 meters).
  • rooting compound — a substance, usually a powder, containing auxins in which plant cuttings are dipped in order to promote root growth
  • round the corner — close at hand
  • roundabout chair — corner chair.
  • run interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • safety-conscious — conscious of being safe and preventing danger
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