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14-letter words containing o, c, u, p, a, t

  • parti-coloured — having different colours in different parts; variegated
  • pennatulaceous — of or relating to a sea pen
  • percutaneously — through the skin
  • 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.
  • picture layout — a picture spread. See under spread (def 33).
  • platycephalous — flat-headed
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • port coquitlam — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, E of Vancouver.
  • 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
  • potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
  • pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
  • propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
  • pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
  • psychoacoustic — relating to psychoacoustics
  • puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
  • punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
  • punctuationist — a person who punctuates a text
  • put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
  • quantum optics — the branch of optics dealing with light as a stream of photons, each possessing a quantum of energy proportional to the frequency of light when it is considered as a wave motion.
  • quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
  • rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • scalar product — inner product (def 1).
  • scrape through — only just succeed
  • shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
  • spectator pump — a woman's spectator shoe, closed at the front and back, usually having a medium or medium-high heel.
  • staphylococcus — any of several spherical bacteria of the genus Staphylococcus, occurring in pairs, tetrads, and irregular clusters, certain species of which, as S. aureus, can be pathogenic for humans.
  • start-up costs — the costs of setting up a business or other project
  • stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • superpatriotic — characteristic of a superpatriot
  • tomato ketchup — sauce made from tomatoes
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
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