13-letter words containing o, u, t, s, i
- countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
- countersniper — designed to act against or eliminate snipers
- counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
- counterstains — Plural form of counterstain.
- counterstrike — a retaliatory strike
- counterthesis — A thesis that rebuts another.
- counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
- countinghouse — a building, room, or office used for keeping books and transacting business
- country music — a type of 20th-century popular music based on White folk music of the southeastern US
- county prison — the prison of a particular county
- cross-cutting — linking traditionally separate or independent parties or interests
- cross-utilize — to make use of in an additional or different way.
- crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
- cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
- culdocentesis — (medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which fluid from the rectouterine pouch is extracted, via the vagina, using a needle.
- curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
- curling tongs — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- custody suite — the part of a police station where people who have been arrested are held in custody
- custom-tailor — to modify to fit a specific use or need; tailor-make.
- customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
- customisation — Alternative spelling of customization.
- customization — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- customs union — an association of nations which promotes free trade within the union and establishes common tariffs on trade with nonmember nations
- cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
- death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
- deep discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- deep-discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- deleteriously — In a deleterious manner; harmfully.
- demeritorious — a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency: If you receive four demerits during a term, you will be expelled from school.
- denaturations — Plural form of denaturation.
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- denunciations — Plural form of denunciation.
- derequisition — to release from military to civilian use
- deserticolous — living or growing in a desert.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- desultoriness — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
- deuteronomist — one of the writers of Deuteronomy
- deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dichotomously — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- disaccustomed — Simple past tense and past participle of disaccustom.
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- disceptatious — disputable