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13-letter words containing t, o, u, r

  • crustaceology — The branch of zoology dealing with crustaceans.
  • cucumber root — Indian cucumber root.
  • culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
  • culver's root — a tall North American scrophulariaceous plant, Veronicastrum virginicum, having spikes of small white or purple flowers
  • cuprotitanium — (metallurgy) An alloy of copper and titanium obtained by reducing a mixture of copper and rutile.
  • 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
  • currant borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Ramosia tipuliformis, that bores into the stems of currants.
  • current ratio — A current ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets by current liabilities.
  • custom-tailor — to modify to fit a specific use or need; tailor-make.
  • customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
  • customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
  • customer care — the work of looking after customers and ensuring their satisfaction with one's business and its goods or services
  • customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
  • customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
  • cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
  • cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • cutting horse — a saddle horse trained for use in separating an individual animal, such as a cow, from a herd
  • cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
  • daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
  • daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
  • daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • 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
  • deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
  • deconstructed — having no formal structure
  • deconstructor — an adherent to the theory of deconstruction
  • deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
  • deed of trust — a written instrument legally conveying property to a trustee, such as a bank, often for the purpose of securing a mortgage or promissory note.
  • deer's-tongue — green gentian.
  • default route — (networking)   A routing table entry which is used to direct packets addressed to hosts or networks not explicitly listed in the routing table.
  • degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
  • 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.
  • demi-detourne — a turn in which the dancer on pointe or demi-pointe completes a half turn toward the back foot and lowers the heels, with the back foot finishing in front.
  • denaturations — Plural form of denaturation.
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
  • derequisition — to release from military to civilian use
  • desert locust — a migratory locust, Schistocerca gregaria, of North Africa and Asia, associated with the plagues described in the Old Testament.
  • deserticolous — living or growing in a desert.
  • destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
  • 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
  • deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
  • deuteromycete — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
  • deuteronomist — one of the writers of Deuteronomy
  • deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
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