14-letter words containing o, n, a, c, u
- occupationally — of or relating to an occupation, trade, or calling: occupational guidance.
- ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
- old-man cactus — a Mexican cactus, Cephalocereus senilis, having a columnar body from 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) high with thatchlike, long, white hairs on the top, and red flowers with white centers.
- omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.
- on the surface — to all appearances
- oncornaviruses — Plural form of oncornavirus.
- 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
- opechancanough — c1545–1644, Algonquian leader, brother of Powhatan: led Jamestown massacre 1622.
- ordnance datum — mean sea level calculated from observation taken at Newlyn, Cornwall, and used as the official basis for height calculation on British maps
- orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
- orphans' court — a probate court in certain U.S. states.
- outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
- outside chance — a slight chance or likelihood
- over-abundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overaccentuate — to accentuate too much
- papilionaceous — having an irregular corolla shaped somewhat like a butterfly, as the pea and other leguminous plants.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parish council — local administrative body
- pennatulaceous — of or relating to a sea pen
- percussion cap — a small metallic cap or cup containing fulminating powder, formerly exploded by percussion to fire the charge of small arms.
- 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.
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- polar sequence — a series of stars in the vicinity of the N celestial pole whose accurately determined magnitudes serve as the standard for visual and photographic magnitudes of stars
- polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
- polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
- 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.
- 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.
- precariousness — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- 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
- pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
- public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
- pugnaciousness — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- 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
- qualifications — Plural form of qualification.
- quantification — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- 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 contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
- quasi-constant — not changing or varying; uniform; regular; invariable: All conditions during the three experiments were constant.
- quasi-contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.