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11-letter words containing d, o, c, u

  • quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
  • quindecagon — a polygon having 15 angles and 15 sides.
  • radiocesium — cesium 137.
  • radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
  • reannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • reconducted — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
  • red puccoon — bloodroot; a plant yielding a red dye
  • reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
  • reeducation — to educate again, as for new purposes.
  • reinduction — the act of inducing, bringing about, or causing: induction of the hypnotic state.
  • reintroduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
  • rotor cloud — a cloud within and around which the air is rotating about a horizontal axis, occurring in the lee of a large mountain barrier.
  • round dance — a dance performed by couples and characterized by circular or revolving movement, as the waltz.
  • round-faced — having a face that is round.
  • roundarched — having semicircular arches
  • rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
  • saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
  • saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
  • scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
  • school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
  • scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
  • second unit — an additional crew on a film production, usually used at a second location for filming crowd scenes, exteriors, and other shots that do not require the principal actors.
  • sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
  • social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
  • solicitudes — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
  • sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
  • sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
  • sound truck — a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.
  • source code — program instructions that must be translated by a compiler, interpreter, or assembler into object code before execution.
  • spondulicks — money; cash.
  • stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
  • storm cloud — raincloud before storm
  • sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
  • subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
  • subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
  • sugarcoated — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
  • suicidology — the study of the causes and prevention of suicide.
  • thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
  • toluic acid — any of four isomeric acids having the formula CH 3 C 6 H 4 COOH: derivatives of toluene.
  • top-up card — a card bought by a mobile phone user entitling him or her to a stipulated amount of credit for future calls
  • touch judge — one of the two linesmen in rugby
  • touch-ready — (of software) ready to work on touch-screen computers and devices
  • transductor — a magnetic device that amplifies electronic signals
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