12-letter words containing u, n, o, t, e
- open texture — the failure of natural languages to determine future usage, particularly the ability of predicates to permit the construction of borderline cases
- open-mouthed — having the mouth open.
- opendocument — (file format, standard) (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) An XML file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations, databases and word processing. OpenDocument was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium. It is based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite. OpenDocument is an open standard, i.e. freely available and implementable. Compare OOXML.
- oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
- orthodonture — orthodontia (def 2).
- ostentatious — characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others: an ostentatious dresser.
- oto-manguean — a family of American Indian languages spoken in central and southern Mexico, including Mixtec, Zapotec, and Otomi.
- outcompeting — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- outdatedness — the state of being outdated
- outdistanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outdistance.
- outdistances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdistance.
- outer london — the group of London Boroughs that form a ring around the city of London in the UK
- outer planet — any of the four planets with orbits outside the orbit of Mars, namely, the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
- outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- outgoingness — The state or condition of being outgoing; gregariousness, extroversion.
- outlet point — an opening (on a pipe, etc) permitting escape or release (of liquid, etc)
- outline font — (text) (Or "vector font") A font defined as a set of lines and curves as opposed to a bitmap font. An outline font (e.g. PostScript, TrueType, RISC OS) can be scaled to any size and otherwise transformed more easily than a bitmap font, and with more attractive results, though this requires a lot of numerical processing. The result of transforming a character in an outline font in a particular way is often saved as a bitmap in a font cache to avoid repeating the calculations if that character is to be drawn again.
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
- outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
- outmodedness — The condition of being outmoded.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- outplacement — counseling and assistance in finding a new job, provided by a company for an employee who has been or is about to be dismissed.
- outside lane — the lane on a motorway where overtaking of other vehicles is permitted and vehicles can travel fastest
- outside line — an external telephone connection
- outsiderness — The state or condition of being an outsider.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overdocument — to document excessively
- parent group — a large organization that owns a number of smaller separate commercial or industrial firms
- patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
- pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
- pause button — a button on a video or music player which can be pressed to temporarily stop the playing of the recording
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pen computer — a computer, as a personal digital assistant, having pattern-recognition software enabling it to read handwritten text or drawings input on the screen by means of a stylus.
- pentyl group — any of the univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 5 H 1 1 –.
- percutaneous — administered, removed, or absorbed by way of the skin, as an injection, needle biopsy, or transdermal drug.
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- perpetuation — to make perpetual.
- perquisition — an intensive and meticulous examination, pursuit, or hunt for something
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- photocurrent — an electric current produced by a photoelectric effect.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- photoneutron — a neutron emitted from a nucleus during photodisintegration.