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

  • output device — (hardware)   Electronic or electromechanical equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images, sounds or other media to a display screen, printer, loudspeaker or storage device. Most modern storage devices such as disk drives and magnetic tape drives act as both input and output devices, others such as CD-ROM are input only.
  • outrecuidance — (archaic) Presumption, arrogance, self-conceit.
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
  • overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
  • overeducation — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • particularize — to make particular.
  • peace studies — a field of political science which examines how to reduce conflicts
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • percussionist — a musician who plays percussion instruments.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • perscrutation — a very careful exploration or inspection
  • pet insurance — health insurance for a pet
  • pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
  • pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
  • picture frame — mount for a picture
  • picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
  • picture plane — the plane of a painting, drawing, or the like, that is in the extreme foreground of a picture, is coextensive with but not the same as the material surface of the work, is the point of visual contact between the viewer and the picture, and is conceived as a major structural element in the production of abstract or illusionistic forms.
  • picturesquely — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • point success — a peak in W central Washington, to the S of Mount Rainier, in the Cascade Range.14,158 feet (4318 meters).
  • pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
  • prejudicative — tending to prejudge
  • preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
  • preproduction — Movies. the steps necessary to prepare a film for production, as casting, choosing locations, and designing sets and costumes.
  • press cutting — an article or picture from a newspaper about someone or something
  • price cutting — the act or practice of cutting prices
  • price support — the maintenance of the price of a commodity, product, etc., especially by means of a public subsidy or government purchase of surpluses.
  • prince rupert — Prince, 1619–82, German Royalist general and admiral in the English Civil War (nephew of Charles I of England).
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • pseudo-poetic — of or relating to a poet or poets.
  • pseudoaquatic — not aquatic but indigenous to moist regions.
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • puncture vine — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • puritan ethic — work ethic.
  • quadruplicate — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • qualificative — That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
  • quantivalence — quantitative equivalence
  • quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
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