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15-letter words containing c, e, n, t, r, u

  • 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.
  • current density — the ratio of the electric current flowing at a particular point in a conductor to the cross-sectional area of the conductor taken perpendicular to the current flow at that point. It is measured in amperes per square metre
  • current limiter — a device, as a resistor or fuse, that limits the flow of current to a prescribed amount, independent of the voltage applied.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • defunct process — zombie 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)
  • density current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
  • destruct button — a button that, when pressed, causes a missile or rocket to destruct
  • destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • direct question — interrogative sentence
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
  • double concerto — a concerto for two solo instruments
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • 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
  • electrocutioner — A person who carries out an execution by means of electricity.
  • electropuncture — a therapy in which a small electric current is passed through the body via electrodes placed on the skin
  • eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
  • encounter group — a group of people who meet in order to develop self-awareness and mutual understanding by openly expressing their feelings, by confrontation, physical contact, etc
  • enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
  • excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
  • extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
  • extreme unction — Catholicism: last rites
  • 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.
  • fleet insurance — Fleet insurance is a type of insurance contract that applies to a number of vehicles.
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • french overture — a short piece in three movements common in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
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