13-letter words containing o, c, u, l, t, s
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
- dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- duplicitously — In a duplicitous, two-faced manner.
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
- encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
- estrous cycle — the regular female reproductive cycle of most placental mammals that is under hormonal control and includes a period of heat, followed by ovulation and complex changes of the uterine lining
- exclusionists — Plural form of exclusionist.
- fasciculation — a fascicular condition.
- floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
- fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
- formularistic — relating to formularization
- fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
- functionalise — to make functional.
- functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
- functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
- galactagogues — Plural form of galactagogue.
- genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
- gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- hexadactylous — hexadactylic
- illusionistic — a technique of using pictorial methods in order to deceive the eye. Compare trompe l'oeil.
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- incombustible — not combustible; incapable of being burned; fireproof.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- instructional — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.
- interlocutors — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
- lactobacillus — any long, slender, rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus, that produces large amounts of lactic acid in the fermentation of carbohydrates, especially in milk.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.