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11-letter words containing c, u, i, t, e

  • picturesque — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
  • pipe cutter — a machine or tool used for cutting pipe.
  • 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.
  • police motu — a pidginized version of the Motu language, used as a lingua franca in Papua, originally chiefly by the police
  • pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
  • 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
  • preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
  • 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.
  • prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • prejudicant — judging beforehand
  • prejudicate — to judge beforehand
  • prize court — a court whose function it is to adjudicate on prizes taken in war.
  • productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • 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.
  • prosecutrix — a female prosecutor or plaintiff
  • public debt — national debt.
  • publicities — extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
  • 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.
  • pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
  • punctuative — 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.
  • putrescible — liable to become putrid.
  • quarter cif — (communications, standard)   (QCIF), a video format standard used in videoconferencing, that transfers one fourth as much data as Common Intermediate Format (CIF). QCIF is defined in ITU H.261 as having 144 lines and 176 pixels per line, with half as many chrominance pixels in each direction. QCIF is suitable for videoconferencing systems that use telephone lines. The codec standard specifies that QCIF compatibility is mandatory, and CIF compatibility is optional.
  • quebec city — French Canadian capital
  • quezon city — a city on W central Luzon Island, in the Philippines, NE of Manila: former national capital (1948–76).
  • quickwitted — Alternative spelling of quick-witted.
  • quiescently — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
  • quitclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of quitclaim.
  • radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
  • re-acquaint — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • recirculate — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
  • recruitable — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
  • recruitment — the act or process of recruiting.
  • recultivate — to plant, tend, harvest, or improve (plants) again
  • reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
  • reductively — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
  • reductivism — reductionism.
  • reduplicate — to double; repeat.
  • 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.
  • relubricate — to lubricate again or with new lubricant
  • reluctation — opposition, struggle, resistance
  • reluctivity — the tendency of a magnetic circuit to conduct magnetic flux, equal to the reciprocal of the permeability of the circuit.
  • resuscitant — a person or thing that resuscitates
  • resuscitate — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
  • reticulated — netted; covered with a network.
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