11-letter words containing u, r, o, c
- overcaution — excessive caution
- overclouded — Simple past tense and past participle of overcloud.
- overconsume — to destroy or expend by use; use up.
- overcurious — Excessively curious.
- overcurrent — a current of a magnitude that is greater than a limiting value, as the value at which a fuse melts.
- overcutting — excessive cutting
- overeducate — to educate too much
- overmuscled — having muscles developed to excess
- overpicture — to describe or portray with exaggeration
- overproduce — to produce more of (a product or commodity) than is required
- oxyrhynchus — a fish found in the Nile, sometimes depicted on Egyptian sculptures and coins
- papyraceous — papery.
- paramountcy — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- peano curve — a curve that passes through every point of a two-dimensional region.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- persecutors — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persecutory — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- perspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- picturegoer — a person who goes to the cinema, esp frequently
- piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
- piscivorous — adapted to feeding on fish; fish-eating.
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- polycarpous — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- polyculture — the raising at the same time and place of more than one species of plant or animal.
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- pop culture — cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
- pot scourer — a small ball of wire or stiff plastic, or a flat piece of a rough fabric used for cleaning kitchen pots and pans
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- pound-force — a foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity when acting on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: lbf.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- pre-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- preannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- precipitous — of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
- precomputer — designating the period prior to the introduction of computers; occurring or existing in this period
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- preoccupate — to influence or occupy the mind in advance
- preoccupied — completely engrossed in thought; absorbed.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- prize court — a court whose function it is to adjudicate on prizes taken in war.
- procerebrum — (in certain invertebrates) the front part of the central nervous system