15-letter words containing a, n, c, o, l, u
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- counterclaimant — a claim made to offset another claim, especially one made by the defendant in a legal action.
- counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
- countercultural — of or relating to a counterculture
- countercyclical — having the effect of checking or reversing fluctuations in the national economy or the finances of a business
- counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
- counterfactuals — Plural form of counterfactual.
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- counterproposal — a proposal offered as an alternative to a previous proposal
- countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
- county palatine — the lands of a count palatine
- crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
- crunchy granola — crisp; brittle.
- crunchy-granola — characterized by or defining oneself by ecological awareness, liberal political views, and support or use of natural products and health foods.
- crystal counter — an instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity of high-energy radiation, in which particles collide with a crystal and momentarily increase its conductivity
- cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
- culturalization — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
- curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
- cushion capital — a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
- cyclone furnace — a furnace burning liquid or pulverized fuel in a whirling air column.
- dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
- decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
- decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
- decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
- delta reduction — (theory) In lambda-calculus extended with constants, delta reduction replaces a function applied to the required number of arguments (a redex) by a result. E.g. plus 2 3 --> 5. In contrast with beta reduction (the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus) the result is not formed simply by textual substitution of arguments into the body of a function. Instead, a delta redex is matched against the left hand side of all delta rules and is replaced by the right hand side of the (first) matching rule. There is notionally one delta rule for each possible combination of function and arguments. Where this implies an infinite number of rules, the result is usually defined by reference to some external system such as mathematical addition or the hardware operations of some computer. For other types, all rules can be given explicitly, for example Boolean negation: not True = False not False = True (1997-02-20)
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
- 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.
- double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
- dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
- eviction clause — a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- fault tolerance — (architecture) 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. The number of faults a system or component can withstand before normal operation is impaired.
- flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
- 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
- flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
- florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
- functionability — functional (def 3).
- functional food — a food containing additives which provide extra nutritional value
- functional load — the relative frequency of occurrence of words that are differentiated in one and the same position by only one distinctive feature. In English, the opposition of voiced and voiceless th has a low functional load being used only to distinguish such pairs as ether and either, or wreath and wreathe.
- functional unit — A subsystem of the central processing unit of a computer. E.g. arithmetic and logic unit, memory address register, barrel shifter, register file.
- functionalistic — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
- 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.