7-letter words containing u, c, o
- ricoeur — Paul (pɔl) 1913–2005, French philosopher, noted for his work on theories of interpretation. His books include Philosophy of the Will (3 vols, 1950–60), Freud and Philosophy (1965), and The Living Metaphor (1975)
- rock up — to arrive late or unannounced
- roebuck — a male roe deer.
- roscius — Quintus [kwin-tuh s] /ˈkwɪn təs/ (Show IPA), c126–c62 b.c, Roman actor.
- rubicon — a river in N Italy flowing E into the Adriatic. 15 miles (24 km) long: in crossing this ancient boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and Italy, to march against Pompey in 49 b.c., Julius Caesar made a major military commitment.
- ruction — a disturbance, quarrel, or row.
- ruddock — robin (def 1).
- runcorn — a town in NW England, in Halton unitary authority, N Cheshire, on the Manchester Ship Canal: port and industrial centre; designated a new town in 1964. Pop: 60 072 (2001)
- sarcous — consisting of or pertaining to flesh or skeletal muscle.
- scopula — a dense tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders.
- scoured — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scourer — a person who scours or ranges about.
- scourge — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scourie — a young seagull
- scouted — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scouter — a person who scouts.
- scrotum — the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- scrouge — to crowd or press
- sickout — an organized absence from work by employees on the pretext of sickness, as to avoid the legal problems or antistrike clauses that would be invoked in the case of a formal strike.
- slouchy — of or relating to a slouch or to a slouching manner, posture, etc.
- so much — in the way or manner indicated, described, or implied: Do it so.
- socinus — Faustus [faw-stuh s] /ˈfɔ stəs/ (Show IPA), (Fausto Sozzini) 1539–1604, and his uncle, Laelius [lee-lee-uh s] /ˈli li əs/ (Show IPA) (Lelio Sozzini), 1525–62, Italian Protestant theologians and reformers.
- soupcon — a slight trace, as of a particular taste or flavor.
- sourced — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- sources — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- sourock — a Scots name for the sorrel plant
- squacco — a S European heron, Ardeola ralloides, with a short thick neck and a buff-coloured plumage with white wings
- subcode — a computer tag identifying data on something such as a compact disc
- subcool — to cool (liquid) to a temperature lower than the temperature it was when it condensed into steam
- subecho — an echo resonating more quietly than another echo
- succory — chicory.
- succoth — Sukkoth.
- succour — help; relief; aid; assistance.
- succous — juicy; full of sap
- sucrose — a crystalline disaccharide, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , the sugar obtained from the sugarcane, the sugar beet, and sorghum, and forming the greater part of maple sugar; sugar.
- suction — the act, process, or condition of sucking.
- surcoat — a garment worn over medieval armor, often embroidered with heraldic arms.
- taichou — a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China.
- touched — moved; stirred: They were very touched by your generosity.
- toucher — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- touchup — (of a painting etc) a renovation or retouching
- touraco — any of several large, brightly colored birds of the family Musophagidae, of Africa, having a helmetlike crest.
- trochus — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a hoop or wheel, as used in play or exercise
- trounce — to beat severely; thrash.
- tuckbox — a box used for carrying and storing food, esp one taken to boarding school
- turbo c — (language) Borland's C compiler for IBM PCs. Turbo C, version 1.0, was introduced by Borland in 1987. It offered the first integrated edit-compile-run development environment for C on IBM PCs. It ran in 384KB of memory. It allowed inline assembly, supported all memory models, and offered optimisations for speed, size, constant folding, and jump elimination. Version 1.5 shipped on five 360 KB diskettes of uncompressed files, and came with sample C programs, including a stripped down spreadsheet called mcalc. Turbo C 2.0 has a debugger, a fast assembler, and an extensive graphics library. Turbo C has been largely supplanted by Turbo C++, introduced circa September, 1990 for both MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.
- turlock — a town in central California.
- tussock — a tuft or clump of growing grass or the like.
- uccello — Paolo [pah-aw-law] /ˈpɑ ɔ lɔ/ (Show IPA), (Paolo di Dono) 1397–1475, Italian painter.
- unblock — to remove a block or obstruction from: to unblock a channel; to unblock a person's credit.