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14-letter words containing r, o, t, c, a, n

  • omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • oneirocritical — an interpreter of dreams.
  • operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
  • operating cost — The operating cost of a business, or a piece of equipment or machinery is the amount of money that it costs to run it.
  • operation code — (programming)   (Always "op code" when spoken) The part or parts of a machine language instruction which determines what kind of action the computer should take, e.g. add, jump, load, store. In any particular instruction set certain fixed bit positions within the instruction word contain the op code, others give parameters such as the addresses or registers involved. For example, in a 32-bit instruction the most significant eight bits might be the op code giving 256 possible operations. For some instruction sets, certain values in the fixed bit positions may select a group of operations and the exact operation may depend on other bits within instruction word or subsequent words. When programming in assembly language, the op code is represented by a readable name called an instruction mnemonic.
  • opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
  • orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
  • ordinary stock — British. common stock.
  • ordnance datum — mean sea level calculated from observation taken at Newlyn, Cornwall, and used as the official basis for height calculation on British maps
  • organ of corti — Anatomy, Zoology. a structure in the cochlea of a mammal, consisting of hair cells that serve as receptors for auditory stimuli.
  • organic matter — matter derived from organisms, esp decayed matter in soil
  • organometallic — pertaining to or noting an organic compound containing a metal or a metalloid linked to carbon.
  • ornithischians — Plural form of ornithischian.
  • ornithological — the branch of zoology that deals with birds.
  • orphans' court — a probate court in certain U.S. states.
  • osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
  • outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
  • over-expectant — having expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience.
  • over-tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
  • overaccentuate — to accentuate too much
  • overallocation — Excess allocation.
  • overanalytical — too analytical
  • overcentralize — to centralize excessively
  • overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overdecoration — excessive decoration
  • overextraction — excessive extraction
  • overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
  • palaeanthropic — relating to or denoting the earliest variety of man
  • paleoanthropic — pertaining to prehistoric humans.
  • pancreatectomy — excision of part or all of the pancreas.
  • panic reaction — a widespread and excessive response of panic
  • pantopragmatic — a busybody; someone who interferes with everything
  • parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parent company — a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies (distinguished from holding company).
  • parent process — (operating system)   The Unix process that created one or more other processes. Every process except process 0 is created when another process executes the fork system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process, and the newly created process is the child process. Every process has one parent process, but can have many child processes. The kernel identifies each process by its process identifier (PID). Process 0 is a special process that is created when the system boots; after forking a child process (process 1), process 0 becomes the swapper process. Process 1, known as init, is the ancestor of every other process in the system and enjoys a special relationship with them.
  • participaction — (in Canada) a non-profit-making organization set up to promote physical fitness
  • penalty corner — a free hit from the goal line taken by the attacking side
  • pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
  • 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.
  • permanent echo — a radar signal reflected to a radar station on the ground by a building or other fixed object.
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phantasmagoric — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • piano concerto — a musical piece composed for the piano accompanied by an orchestra
  • pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
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