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15-letter words containing cu

  • cut (up) didoes — to behave in mischievous or silly way
  • cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
  • cut your losses — If you cut your losses, you stop doing what you were doing in order to prevent the bad situation that you are in becoming worse.
  • cuticle remover — a substance used to remove the cuticle from around the base of one's nails
  • cutthroat trout — a game fish (Salmo clarki) with a reddish patch under the jaw, usually found in high mountain streams near the NW North American coast
  • dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
  • decubitus ulcer — a chronic ulcer of the skin and underlying tissues caused by prolonged pressure on the body surface of bedridden patients
  • deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • degree of curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • density current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
  • diamond cutting — the art or work of cutting and shaping rough diamonds to make them suitable for use by the jewellery trade
  • disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
  • disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
  • document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
  • documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
  • domain calculus — (database)   A form of relational calculus in which scalar variables take values drawn from a given domain. Examples of the domain calculus are ILL, FQL, DEDUCE and the well known Query By Example (QBE). INGRES is a relational DBMS whose DML is based on the relational calculus.
  • electrocutioner — A person who carries out an execution by means of electricity.
  • eleutherococcus — a shrub, Eleutherococcus senticosus, which is found in Siberia and which is used in herbal medicine. It supposedly increases stamina and boosts the immune system
  • excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • executive order — An executive order is a regulation issued by a member of the executive branch of government. It has the same authority as a law.
  • extracurricular — (of an activity at a school or college) Pursued in addition to the normal course of study.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • focusing screen — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • formal calculus — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • frequency curve — a curve representing the frequency with which a variable assumes its values.
  • gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
  • glucuronic acid — Biochemistry. an acid, C 6 H 10 O 7 , formed by the oxidation of glucose, found combined with other products of metabolism in the blood and urine.
  • glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
  • great barracuda — a large barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, of Atlantic and western Pacific seas.
  • hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
  • homo economicus — a theoretical human being who rationally calculates the costs and benefits of every action before making a decision, used as the basis for a number of economic theories and models
  • horned cucumber — a tropical African plant, Cucumis metuliferus, having fruit with spiky, orange skin and jellylike pulp that tastes like cucumbers.
  • horticulturally — With respect to horticulture.
  • horticulturists — Plural form of horticulturist.
  • impecuniousness — The property of being impecunious.
  • in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
  • incalculability — The quality or state of being incalculable.
  • inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
  • inconspicuously — not conspicuous, noticeable, or prominent.
  • inexcusableness — The quality of being inexcusable.
  • infraclavicular — (anatomy) Below the clavicle.
  • interclavicular — a median membrane bone developed between the collarbones, or in front of the breastbone, in many vertebrates.
  • interculturally — pertaining to or taking place between two or more cultures: intercultural exchanges in music and art.
  • interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
  • interjaculatory — expressed by interjaculating
  • interlacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
  • intertentacular — situated between tentacles
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