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

  • nostro account — a bank account conducted by a British bank with a foreign bank, usually in the foreign currency
  • ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
  • off the charts — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • 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.
  • opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
  • opisthographic — written on the front and back of a parchment or papyrus
  • optical isomer — any of two or more isomers exhibiting optical isomerism.
  • oral eroticism — libidinal pleasure derived from the lips and mouth, for example by kissing
  • orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
  • ordinary stock — British. common stock.
  • ornithischians — Plural form of ornithischian.
  • orphans' court — a probate court in certain U.S. states.
  • osteoarthritic — Affected with osteoarthritis.
  • osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
  • osteosarcomata — Plural form of osteosarcoma.
  • overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
  • overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • oxidoreductase — any of a class of enzymes that act as a catalyst, some of them conjointly, causing the oxidation and reduction of compounds.
  • oyster cracker — a small, round, usually salted cracker, served with oysters, soup, etc.
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • 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.
  • part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
  • party politics — politics based on strict adherence to the policies and principles of a political party regardless of the public interest; partisan loyalism.
  • pectoral cross — a cross worn on the breast by various prelates, as a designation of office.
  • pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
  • percutaneously — through the skin
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • 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.
  • pharmacologist — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
  • phosphate rock — phosphorite.
  • photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • portulacaceous — belonging to the Portulacaceae, the purslane family of plants.
  • post-cartesian — of or relating to Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.
  • post-conciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
  • post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
  • post-victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • postcopulatory — of or relating to the period of time following copulation
  • potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
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