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14-letter words containing o, u, t, s

  • boston lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce
  • bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
  • bound moisture — Bound moisture is liquid in a solid, which exerts a vapor pressure that is less than the pure liquid would do at the same temperature.
  • boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
  • builder's knot — clove hitch
  • bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
  • bull's-eye rot — a disease of apples and pears, characterized by sunken, eyelike spots on the fruit and twig cankers, caused by any of several fungi, especially of the genus Neofabraea.
  • bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
  • bust one's ass — Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort: She was determined to make straight A's or bust.
  • butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
  • campylotropous — (of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch
  • cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
  • castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
  • casual contact — the level of contact at which a person is not subject to contracting a communicable disease from another, especially nonsexual contact with a person infected with a venereal disease.
  • caustic potash — potassium hydroxide
  • censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
  • cheese product — a processed cheese consisting in the U.S. of at least 50 percent cheese to which cheese whey or whey albumin may be added.
  • chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
  • circuitousness — The state of being circuitous.
  • circumposition — the act of circumposing
  • circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
  • claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
  • claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
  • cleistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
  • clifford trust — a type of living trust set up for at least a 10-year period, during which the income goes to a beneficiary and after which the principal reverts to the grantor.
  • close juncture — continuity in the articulation of two successive sounds, as in the normal transition between sounds within a word; absence of juncture (opposed to open juncture). Compare juncture (def 7), open juncture, terminal juncture.
  • close quarters — a narrow cramped space or position
  • closed circuit — a circuit without interruption, providing a continuous path through which a current can flow.
  • closed couplet — a couplet that concludes with an end-stopped line.
  • closed-circuit — A closed-circuit television or video system is one that operates within a limited area such as a building.
  • coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
  • cocktail sauce — any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.
  • combustibility — capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible.
  • commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commissurotomy — the incision of a band of commissures, especially of mitral fibers, to correct mitral stenosis.
  • common assault — an action that causes a person to fear that he or she is in danger of violent attack
  • communications — the ways in which human beings communicate
  • communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
  • compusult ltd. — A computer consulting firm (in Newfoundland, Canada?) that provides a public access Unix.
  • compute server — (computer, parallel)   A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
  • computer virus — virus
  • conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • conceptualises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceptualise.
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