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12-letter words containing a, c, e, y

  • cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
  • cache memory — a small area of memory in a computer that can be accessed very quickly
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • cafe society — people, esp intellectuals and artists who meet in cafés
  • calcareously — in a calcareous manner
  • calculatedly — in a calculated manner
  • calendar day — the period from one midnight to the following midnight.
  • call-by-name — (reduction)   (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
  • call-by-need — (reduction)   A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
  • calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • calvin cycle — a series of reactions, occurring during photosynthesis, in which glucose is synthesized from carbon dioxide
  • calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
  • calycoideous — calycoid
  • camera ready — (publication)   A final edition of a document or graphic (e.g. a newspaper advertisement or a technical paper for a journal) that is of suitable quality for mass reproduction by making printing plates from the negatives by photoengraving.
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • camera-ready — designating or of copy, artwork, etc. that is ready to be photographed for making into a plate for printing
  • candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
  • canyoneering — (US) Canyoning, a hybrid outdoor sport involving the traversal of river canyons.
  • capacitively — (physics, electronics) In relation to or in terms of capacitance.
  • cape cod bay — a part of Massachusetts Bay, enclosed by the Cape Cod peninsula.
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • caper family — the plant family Capparidaceae (or Capparaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having alternate, simple, or palmate leaves, irregular flowers with four petals, and fruit in the form of elongated capsules or berries, including the caper and cleome.
  • capital levy — a tax on capital or property as contrasted with a tax on income
  • capraldehyde — (chemistry) decanal.
  • caraway seed — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of this plant, used in cooking and in medicine
  • carbamylurea — biuret.
  • carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
  • carbohydrate — Carbohydrates are substances, found in certain kinds of food, that provide you with energy. Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates.
  • carbon cycle — the circulation of carbon between living organisms and their surroundings. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is synthesized by plants into plant tissue, which is ingested and metabolized by animals and converted to carbon dioxide again during respiration and decay
  • carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • carey street — (formerly) the street in which the London bankruptcy court was situated
  • carnot cycle — an idealized reversible heat-engine cycle giving maximum efficiency and consisting of an isothermal expansion, an adiabatic expansion, an isothermal compression, and an adiabatic compression back to the initial state
  • carriageways — Plural form of carriageway.
  • carried away — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
  • carry a tune — to be able to sing in tune
  • carry permit — a license to carry a handgun on one's person.
  • carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
  • case history — A person's case history is the record of past events or problems that have affected them, especially their medical history.
  • case-by-case — considering each case individually rather than considering several cases together as a whole
  • cash economy — an economic system, or part of one, in which financial transactions are carried out in cash rather than via direct debit, standing order, bank transfer, or credit card
  • cash payment — an immediate payment in cash
  • caste system — the division of Hindu society into four major hereditary classes
  • categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
  • categoricity — The quality of being categorical.
  • cathode rays — a stream of electrons emitted from the surface of a cathode in a valve
  • catty-corner — Something that is catty-corner or kitty-corner from another thing is placed or arranged diagonally from it.
  • celebreality — a television genre that is unscripted and involves either the day-to-day documentation of a celebrity’s life or competitive challenges that a celebrity or celebrities must perform
  • centennially — As part of a centennial.
  • central city — the principal municipality of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs and smaller towns; esp., the crowded, industrial, often blighted area
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