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15-letter words containing a, n, u, r

  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • cranberry juice — the juice of cranberries
  • cranberry sauce — a sauce made from cranberries, often eaten with turkey
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • crinkum-crankum — a fanciful name for any object that is full of twists and turns
  • crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
  • crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
  • cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling
  • 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.
  • crush-resistant — not being easily creased
  • 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
  • crystal nucleus — the tiny crystal that forms at the onset of crystallization
  • cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
  • culturalization — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
  • culture pattern — a group of interrelated culture traits of some continuity.
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
  • currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
  • current account — A current account is a personal bank account which you can take money out of at any time using your cheque book or cash card.
  • current affairs — If you refer to current affairs, you are referring to political events and problems in society which are discussed in newspapers, and on television and radio.
  • current balance — an instrument for measuring electric currents, in which the magnetic force between two current-carrying coils is balanced against a weight.
  • curtain lecture — a scolding or rebuke given in private, esp by a wife to her husband
  • curtain shutter — a focal-plane shutter consisting of a curtain on two rollers, moved at a constant speed past the lens opening so as to expose the film to one of several slots in the curtain, the width of which determines the length of exposure.
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • cyclone furnace — a furnace burning liquid or pulverized fuel in a whirling air column.
  • daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
  • danse du ventre — belly dance
  • dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
  • data redundancy — (data, communications, storage)   Any technique that stores or transmits extra, derived data that can be used to detect or repair errors, either in hardware or software. Examples are parity bits and the cyclic redundancy check. If the cost of errors is high enough, e.g. in a safety-critical system, redundancy may be used in both hardware AND software with three separate computers programmed by three separate teams ("triple redundancy") and some system to check that they all produce the same answer, or some kind of majority voting system. The term is not typically used for other, less beneficial, duplication of data. 2.   (communications)   The proportion of a message's gross information content that can be eliminated without losing essential information. Technically, redundancy is one minus the ratio of the actual uncertainty to the maximum uncertainty. This is the fraction of the structure of the message which is determined not by the choice of the sender, but rather by the accepted statistical rules governing the choice of the symbols in question.
  • daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
  • de bruijn graph — (mathematics)   A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
  • dead and buried — If you say that something such as an idea or situation is dead and buried, you are emphasizing that you think that it is completely finished or past, and cannot happen or exist again in the future.
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • deindustrialise — Alternative spelling of deindustrialize.
  • deindustrialize — to reduce the importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of (a nation or area)
  • delayed neutron — a neutron produced in a nuclear reactor by the breakdown of a fission product and released a short time after neutrons produced in the primary process
  • 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)
  • deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
  • deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
  • dexfenfluramine — an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • dionysius thrax — c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
  • disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
  • disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
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