15-letter words containing cu
- over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
- over-particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
- overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- particularistic — exclusive attention or devotion to one's own particular interests, party, etc.
- peculiar people — a small sect of faith healers founded in London in 1838, having no ministers or external organization
- pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
- percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
- percussion tool — a power driven tool which operates by striking rapid blows: the power may be electricity or compressed air
- perpendicularly — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
- popular culture — cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
- porcupine river — a river in NW Yukon Territory, Canada and NE Alaska, flowing N and W to the Yukon River. 448 miles (721 km) long.
- postinoculation — the act or process of inoculating.
- preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
- principal focus — focal point (def 1).
- printed circuit — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
- puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- ratafia biscuit — a macaroon.
- recurrent fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
- redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
- rescue services — emergency services comprising employees, equipment, etc, which serve to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
- retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
- sales executive — a professional responsible for increasing and developing a company's sales
- sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
- scaling circuit — an electronic device or circuit that aggregates electric pulses and gives a single output pulse for a predetermined number of input pulses
- scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
- sculptor's tool — the constellation Caelum.
- secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
- securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
- securities firm — a firm that deals in securities
- security camera — closed-circuit TV camera
- security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security
- security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- security threat — a threat to the security of a country
- self-accusation — a charge of wrongdoing; imputation of guilt or blame.
- self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- semi-articulate — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
- single currency — a currency that is common to different countries
- single-cut file — a file with teeth in one direction only: used for filing soft material
- sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
- social security — (usually initial capital letters) a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups.
- socioculturally — from a sociocultural point of view
- soft-focus lens — a lens designed to produce an image that is uniformly very slightly out of focus: typically used for portrait work
- source document — a document that has been or will be transcribed to a word processor or to the memory bank of a computer
- spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc