13-letter words containing u, p, c, o, i
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- consumptivity — consumptiveness
- contrapuntist — a composer skilled in counterpoint
- coptic church — the ancient Christian Church of Egypt
- corruptionist — a person who engages in or upholds corrupt practices, esp. in public life
- costume piece — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
- cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
- couch-hopping — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
- councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
- counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
- counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
- counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
- counterpoints — Plural form of counterpoint.
- counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
- counterpoises — Plural form of counterpoise.
- counterpoison — A poison used against another poison, serving as an antidote.
- countersniper — designed to act against or eliminate snipers
- counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
- county police — (in the US) the police of a particular county
- county prison — the prison of a particular county
- coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
- cuprotitanium — (metallurgy) An alloy of copper and titanium obtained by reducing a mixture of copper and rutile.
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- cut-off point — the limit at which something is no longer applicable
- dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- decompounding — Present participle of decompound.
- deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
- deep discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- deep-discount — a discount far larger than normally offered.
- deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
- disceptatious — disputable
- dna computing — (architecture) The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
- duplicitously — In a duplicitous, two-faced manner.
- encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
- fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
- fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
- fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
- fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
- gossip column — newspaper: celebrity news article
- group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
- guilt complex — If you say that someone has a guilt complex about something, you mean that they feel very guilty about it, in a way that you consider is exaggerated, unreasonable, or unnecessary.
- half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.