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15-letter words containing a, c, o

  • gnotobiological — relating to gnotobiology
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • goal difference — the number of goals scored by a team minus the number of goals it has conceded
  • governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
  • grace-and-favor — noting a residence owned by a noble or sovereign and bestowed by him or her upon some person for that person's lifetime.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
  • granitification — the process or action of forming into granite
  • graph colouring — (application)   A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • graphologically — In terms of or by means of graphology.
  • graviperception — the perception of gravity by plants
  • great attractor — a vast concentration of matter whose gravitational pull alters the direction and speed of the Milky Way and other galaxies as they spread apart in the expanding universe posited by the big bang theory.
  • great recession — the protracted worldwide economic recession following the financial crisis of 2007–08
  • grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
  • greenham common — a village in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire; site of a US cruise missile base, and, from 1981, a camp of women protesters against nuclear weapons; although the base had closed by 1991 a small number of women remained until 2000
  • gregorian chant — the plain song or cantus firmus used in the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
  • guild socialism — a form of socialism developed in England in the 20th century, emphasizing decentralization of industry and services with control to be vested in autonomous guilds of workers.
  • gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
  • 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).
  • haematachometer — (dated) An apparatus for measuring the velocity of the blood.
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
  • han unification — Han character
  • hanging offence — a crime that is punishable by hanging
  • hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
  • harmonic motion — periodic motion consisting of one or more vibratory motions that are symmetric about a region of equilibrium, as the motion of a vibrating string of a musical instrument.
  • harmonic series — a series in which the reciprocals of the terms form an arithmetic progression.
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
  • have a crush on — be attracted to: sb
  • have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
  • 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
  • heart condition — cardiac disorder
  • heart's content — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • heat-conduction — the transfer of thermal energy between molecules
  • hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • heliometrically — By means of, or in terms of, heliometry.
  • hemangiosarcoma — A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs and rarely in cats.
  • hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
  • hemochromatosis — a rare metabolic disorder characterized by a bronzed skin, cirrhosis, and severe diabetes, caused by the deposit in tissue, especially of the liver and pancreas, of hemosiderin and other pigments containing iron.
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • hepaticological — of or relating to hepaticology
  • hepatocarcinoma — (pathology) cancer of the liver.
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
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