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15-letter words containing a, n, t, i, c, p

  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
  • dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • electing a pope — (electronics, humour)   (From the smoke signals given out when the guys in funny hats choose a new Pope) Causing an integrated circuit or other electronic component to emit smoke by passing too much current through it. See magic smoke.
  • emancipationist — An advocate of the emancipation of slaves.
  • encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
  • encephalopathic — Relating to encephalopathy.
  • entrance permit — a permit issued by the government of a country allowing nationals of other countries to enter
  • epicyclic train — a cluster of gears consisting of a central gearwheel with external teeth (the sun), a coaxial gearwheel of greater diameter with internal teeth (the annulus), and one or more planetary gears engaging with both of them to provide a large gear ratio in a compact space
  • exceptionalness — The quality of being exceptional.
  • exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • fatal exception — (programming, operating system)   A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
  • 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.
  • fragrance strip — a folded, usually sealed strip on a page or card, impregnated with fragrance that is released when pulled or torn open: The magazine is full of fragrance strips in the advertisements.
  • gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
  • 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.
  • graphic granite — a pegmatite that has crystals of gray quartz imbedded in white or pink microcline in such a manner that they resemble cuneiform writing.
  • grappier cement — a by-product of the calcination of hydraulic lime, having similar properties and made from ground, unslaked lumps.
  • graviperception — the perception of gravity by plants
  • hepatocarcinoma — (pathology) cancer of the liver.
  • hip replacement — a surgical procedure involving replacing the hip joint with an artificial implant
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hot-dip coating — the process of coating sheets of iron or steel with molten zinc.
  • hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
  • hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
  • implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
  • in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
  • inapplicability — (uncountable) The state of being inapplicable.
  • incomparability — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
  • incompatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
  • incompatibility — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • inexplicability — not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.
  • inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
  • insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
  • inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • intercomparison — mutual comparison
  • interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
  • internment camp — a prison camp for the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, political prisoners, etc.
  • interperceptual — occurring between periods of perceiving
  • interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • introspectional — Of or relating to introspection.
  • italian cypress — a tall Eurasian cypress, cupressus sempervirens, native to the eastern Mediterranean region
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
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