16-letter words containing ut
- out of condition — If someone is out of condition, they are unhealthy and unfit, because they do not do enough exercise.
- out of the money — If an investment is out of the money, it would be a loss if it was sold.
- out of the woods — the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem.
- out of your mind — If you say that someone is out of their mind, you mean that they are mad or very foolish.
- out on one's ear — dismissed unceremoniously
- outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
- outside director — a director of a company who is not employed by that company but is often employed by a holding or associated company
- outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
- overcautiousness — the quality or state of being too cautious, wary, or careful
- palmtop computer — a computer that has a small screen and compressed keyboard and is small enough to be held in the hand, often used as a personal organizer
- parachute rigger — a person who inspects, repairs, and packs or folds parachutes.
- photoautotrophic — any organism that derives its energy for food synthesis from light and is capable of using carbon dioxide as its principal source of carbon.
- plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
- plymouth company — a company, formed in England in 1606 to establish colonies in America and that founded a colony in Maine in 1607.
- port authorities — the body with overall responsibility for a port
- prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- prosecution case — the case brought against someone by a legal authority
- put (out) to sea — to sail away from land
- put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
- put a sock in it — be quiet!
- put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
- put in the shade — to appear better than (another); surpass
- put one's oar in — to interfere or interrupt
- put out to grass — If you say that someone is being put out to grass, you mean they are no longer being employed because they are considered to be too old or no longer useful.
- put pen to paper — If you put pen to paper, you write something.
- put sb/sth first — If you put someone or something first, you treat or consider them as more important than anything else.
- put someone wise — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- put sth to sleep — If a sick or injured animal is put to sleep, it is killed by a vet in a way that does not cause it pain.
- put the question — to require members of a deliberative assembly to vote on a motion presented
- put the skids to — to thwart or cause to fail
- put to the sword — to kill with a sword or swords
- put to the torch — to set fire to; burn down
- put your feet up — If you put your feet up, you relax or have a rest, especially by sitting or lying with your feet supported off the ground.
- quantum computer — a computer that makes use of the quantum states of electrons or other particles to store and process information as quantum bits.
- quiet revolution — a period during the 1960s in Quebec, marked by secularization, educational reforms, and rising support for separation from the rest of Canada
- redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
- reverse commuter — a commuter who lives in a city and commutes to a job in the suburbs.
- right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- right outer join — outer join
- rock creek butte — a mountain in NE Oregon: highest peak in the Blue Mountains. 9106 feet (2777 meters).
- roundabout chair — corner chair.
- sales automation — Sales Force Automation
- schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
- schweizerdeutsch — Schwyzertütsch.
- self-constituted — constituted as such by oneself or itself
- self-dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
- senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
- shut the door on — to refuse to think about
- shutter priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
- shutter-priority — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.