14-letter words containing m, o, t, r, u, c
- ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
- offer document — a document sent by a person or firm making a takeover bid to the shareholders of the target company, giving details of the offer that has been made and, usually, reasons for accepting it
- ordnance datum — mean sea level calculated from observation taken at Newlyn, Cornwall, and used as the official basis for height calculation on British maps
- orthomolecular — being or pertaining to the treatment of disease by increasing, decreasing, or otherwise controlling the intake of natural substances, especially vitamins. Compare megavitamin (def 1).
- outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- period costume — the attire typical of a particular period in time
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- port coquitlam — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, E of Vancouver.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- prime computer — (company) (Or "Pr1ME") A minicomputer manufacturer.
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
- pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
- pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
- quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
- rostral column — a memorial column having sculptures representing the rams of ancient ships.
- semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
- sequestrectomy — the removal of dead spicules or portions, especially of bone.
- sodium citrate — a white, crystalline or granular, water-soluble, odorless solid, Na 3 C 6 H 5 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, having a cool, saline taste: used in photography, in soft drinks, and in medicine chiefly to prevent the coagulation of blood.
- somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
- south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- spectator pump — a woman's spectator shoe, closed at the front and back, usually having a medium or medium-high heel.
- staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
- stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- summer clothes — light clothes which are suitable for summer
- supercommittee — A supercommittee is a committee which has members from two or more organizations or political groups.
- tcl consortium — (body) A non-profit agency dedicated to promoting Tcl.
- tetrachotomous — divided into four parts
- thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
- thermojunction — a point of electrical contact between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears, the magnitude of which depends on the temperature of the contact and the nature of the metals
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- trombiculiasis — the condition of being infested with chiggers.
- tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- ultramicrotome — a microtome capable of producing very fine slices of tissue or cellular specimens for electron microscopic examination.
- ultramicrotomy — the practice of using an ultramicrotome
- unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
- uncomputerized — not computerized; not equipped with, involving, or making use of computers
- uncontemporary — outmoded
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unromantically — in an unromantic manner