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

  • pre-lecture — a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject: a lecture on Picasso's paintings.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • precultural — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
  • prefectural — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
  • 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
  • preoccupant — a previous occupant
  • preoccupate — to influence or occupy the mind in advance
  • prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
  • pretty much — mostly
  • prize court — a court whose function it is to adjudicate on prizes taken in war.
  • procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
  • proctodaeum — proctodeum.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • punctulated — bearing small spots or dots
  • putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
  • 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.
  • quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quarterdeck — the part of a weather deck that runs aft from the midship area or the mainmast to the stern or poop of a vessel.
  • quarterpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only.
  • 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.
  • racquetball — a game similar to handball, played on a four-walled court but with a short-handled, strung racket and a larger, somewhat softer ball.
  • 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.
  • re-acquaint — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • recalculate — to calculate again, especially for the purpose of finding an error or confirming a previous computation.
  • recatalogue — to catalogue (something, such as a book or collection of books) again
  • recirculate — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
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