14-letter words containing o, c, t, p, u
- nonparticulate — Not particulate.
- nonprosecution — (legal) Of or pertaining to a decision not to prosecute.
- nonspectacular — not spectacular
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- nontherapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- not up to much — If you say that something is not up to much, you mean that it is of poor quality.
- nuclear option — the use of or power to use nuclear weapons
- nucleoproteins — Plural form of nucleoprotein.
- occupancy rate — The occupancy rate at a hotel is the number of available rooms that are occupied over a period of time.
- occupationally — of or relating to an occupation, trade, or calling: occupational guidance.
- octave coupler — a mechanism on an organ and on some harpsichords that enables keys or pedals an octave apart to be played simultaneously
- opaque context — an expression in which the replacement of a term by another with the same reference may change the truth-value of the whole. John believes that Cicero was a Roman is opaque, since even though Cicero and Tully are the same person John may know that the given statement is true but not that Tully was a Roman
- opisthocoelous — relating to vertebrae in which the centrum is convex and the posterior is concave
- opt-out clause — a clause that permits signatories to a contract to opt out of particular provisions, or to terminate the contract early
- orphans' court — a probate court in certain U.S. states.
- outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
- overparticular — precise beyond necessity
- overproduction — excessive production; production in excess of need or stipulated amount.
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parti-coloured — having different colours in different parts; variegated
- pennatulaceous — of or relating to a sea pen
- people's court — small-claims court.
- percutaneously — through the skin
- period costume — the attire typical of a particular period in time
- peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
- perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- photoduplicate — photocopy.
- photoinduction — the act or process of being photoinduced
- photoinductive — of, relating to, or being able to undergo photoinduction
- photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
- photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
- picture editor — someone whose job is to deal with the photographs and illustrations for a newspaper or magazine
- picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
- picture window — a large window in a house, usually dominating the room or wall in which it is located, and often designed or placed to present an attractive view.
- platycephalous — flat-headed
- pneumoconiotic — a person who suffers from pneumoconiosis
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
- poetic justice — an ideal distribution of rewards and punishments such as is common in some poetry and fiction.
- police custody — If somebody or something is in police custody, they are kept somewhere secure, under the supervision of police officers, for example in a police station.
- polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
- polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
- port coquitlam — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, E of Vancouver.
- port st. lucie — a town in E Florida.
- port-au-prince — Formerly Hayti. a republic in the West Indies occupying the W part of the island of Hispaniola. 10,714 sq. mi. (27,750 sq. km). Capital: Port-au-Prince.
- portulacaceous — belonging to the Portulacaceae, the purslane family of plants.
- postcopulatory — of or relating to the period of time following copulation
- postproduction — (in motion pictures, recording, etc.) the technical processes, as cutting, editing, and post-synchronization, necessary to ready a filmed or recorded work for sale or exhibition.