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15-letter words containing a, c, o, y

  • encephalography — Any of various techniques for recording the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
  • encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • entomologically — In terms of entomology.
  • epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
  • eric conspiracy — (person, humour)   A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (of the "Allman style" described under indent style), Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP), Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site.
  • eric s. raymond — (person)   One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. E-mail: <[email protected]>
  • errand of mercy — a trip undertaken to help someone who is in trouble
  • escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
  • factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • finance company — an institution engaged in such specialized forms of financing as purchasing accounts receivable, extending credit to retailers and manufacturers, discounting installment contracts, and granting loans with goods as security.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
  • floating policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
  • for a certainty — without doubt
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • gastronomically — the art or science of good eating.
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • geotectonically — from a geotectonic point of view
  • glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
  • glycogenic acid — gluconic acid.
  • glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
  • gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
  • graphologically — In terms of or by means of graphology.
  • gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
  • hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
  • hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
  • heliometrically — By means of, or in terms of, heliometry.
  • hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • heterocercality — the condition or state of having a heterocercal tail
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • histochemically — In a histochemical manner.
  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • holiday clothes — the clothes worn and bought for travelling on holiday, such as swimwear, skiwear, or clothes for hot or cold weather, etc
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