14-letter words containing r, u, c
- public library — a nonprofit library established for the use of the general public and maintained chiefly by public funds.
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- puncture wound — injury: perforation
- purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
- purchase order — document requesting to buy sth
- purchase price — cost at which sth is bought
- pure democracy — a form of democracy in which the laws and policies are made directly by the citizens rather than by representatives.
- purple grackle — the eastern subspecies of the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula, of North America, having an iridescent purple back.
- purse snatcher — wallet thief
- put a crimp in — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
- put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
- quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .
- quadrisyllabic — a word or poetic meter with four syllables
- quadruplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quadruplicate.
- quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
- quality circle — a group of workers performing similar duties who meet periodically to discuss work-related problems, offer suggestions for improved production or product quality, etc.
- quality factor — a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- quartz crystal — a thin plate or rod cut in certain directions from a piece of piezoelectric quartz and accurately ground so that it vibrates at a particular frequency
- quasi contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
- quasi-contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
- quasi-criminal — of the nature of or involving crime.
- quasi-particle — an object that is similar to a particle, but does not meet the full criteria of a particle
- quasi-periodic — almost periodic
- quasiparticles — Plural form of quasiparticle.
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
- quick response — fast reaction time
- quick-tempered — easily angered.
- quickie strike — a labor strike that has not been called or sanctioned by the officials of the union.
- quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
- quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
- racing colours — the colours painted on a racing car to represent the nation of the car or driver
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- radioacoustics — the science and technology of the production, transmission, and reproduction of sounds carried by radio waves.
- radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- rainbow cactus — an erect stiff cactus, Echinocereus pectinatus rigidissimus, of Arizona and Mexico, having a cylindrical body, numerous interlocking spines, and pink flowers.
- raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- ranunculaceous — belonging to the Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family of plants.
- rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
- rattail cactus — a small, often cultivated cactus (Aporocactus flagelliformis) with weak, cylindrical, creeping or drooping stems, native to Mexico and Central America