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15-letter words containing c, i

  • artificial feel — a system, used in aircraft that have fully powered control surfaces, providing the pilot with simulated aerodynamic forces on the controls
  • artificial gene — a duplicate gene synthesized in the laboratory by combining nucleotides in a sequence characteristic of the copied gene.
  • artificial life — (algorithm, application)   (a-life) The study of synthetic systems which behave like natural living systems in some way. Artificial Life complements the traditional biological sciences concerned with the analysis of living organisms by attempting to create lifelike behaviours within computers and other artificial media. Artificial Life can contribute to theoretical biology by modelling forms of life other than those which exist in nature. It has applications in environmental and financial modelling and network communications. There are some interesting implementations of artificial life using strangely shaped blocks. A video, probably by the company Artificial Creatures who build insect-like robots in Cambridge, MA (USA), has several mechanical implementations of artificial life forms. See also evolutionary computing, Life.
  • artificial lift — Artificial lift is any method of increasing flow from a well.
  • artificial turf — any of various synthetic, carpetlike materials made to resemble turf and used as a playing surface for football and baseball fields, to cover patios, etc.
  • artificialness' — made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers.
  • ascending colon — the first portion of the colon, beginning at the cecum in the lower right abdominal cavity and continuing upward along the right posterior abdominal wall to approximately the lower ribs.
  • ascending scale — a scale that is rising in pitch
  • asclepiadaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Asclepiadaceae, a family of mostly tropical and subtropical flowering plants, including the milkweed and swallowwort, having pollen in the form of a waxy mass (pollinium): now usually regarded as a subfamily of the Apocynaceae
  • ascribed status — the social position assigned to a person on the basis of kinship, ethnic group, sex, etc.
  • asiago (cheese) — a hard, dry, sharply flavored cheese originally of N Italy
  • asiatic cholera — cholera (def 1).
  • assign a policy — If you assign a policy, you transfer legal ownership of an insurance policy to another person.
  • association law — any law governing the association of ideas
  • astrodynamicist — a person who studies astrodynamics
  • astronautically — In an astronautic way.
  • astrophysically — from an astrophysical point of view
  • astrophysicists — Plural form of astrophysicist.
  • asymmetric bars — a pair of wooden or fibreglass bars placed parallel to each other but set at different heights, for various exercises
  • asymmetric time — musical time consisting of an odd number of beats in each bar divided into uneven combinations, such as 3 + 2, 4 + 3, 2 + 3 + 2, etc
  • at first glance — If you say that something is true or seems to be true at first glance, you mean that it seems to be true when you first see it or think about it, but that your first impression may be wrong.
  • at sbs instance — If you do something at someone's instance, you do it because they have ordered or requested you to do it.
  • at short notice — Notice is used in expressions such as 'at short notice', 'at a moment's notice' or 'at twenty-four hours' notice', to indicate that something can or must be done within a short period of time.
  • at your service — You can use 'at your service' after your name as a formal way of introducing yourself to someone and saying that you are willing to help them in any way you can.
  • atherosclerosis — a degenerative disease of the arteries characterized by patchy thickening of the inner lining of the arterial walls, caused by deposits of fatty material; a form of arteriosclerosis
  • atherosclerotic — Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with atherosclerosis.
  • athletic sports — sports, esp track and field events, in which athleticism is required
  • atlantic puffin — any of several alcidine sea birds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda, having a short neck and a large, compressed, grooved bill, as F. arctica (Atlantic puffin) of the North Atlantic.
  • atlantic ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • atlantic salmon — a valuable food and game fish, Salmo salar, mainly of northern coastal Atlantic waters or, when spawning, in freshwater streams tributary to the ocean.
  • atlantic-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • atmospherically — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • atomic cocktail — an aqueous solution of radioactive substance administered orally as part of the treatment for cancer
  • audience appeal — the quality of being attractive to an audience
  • audience rating — a figure based on statistical sampling indicating what proportion of the total listening and viewing audience tune in to a specific programme or network
  • audio frequency — a frequency in the range 20 hertz to 20 000 hertz. A sound wave of this frequency would be audible to the human ear
  • audio recording — an electronic recording of sound
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • authenticatable — to establish as genuine.
  • authentications — Plural form of authentication.
  • autocannibalism — The eating of part of one's own body.
  • autocollimation — the process used in an autocollimator.
  • autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
  • autocorrelative — Relating to autocorrelation.
  • autodestructive — likely to cause one's own destruction
  • autodidacticism — any self-directed learning or self-education
  • autoinoculation — the inoculation of microorganisms (esp viruses) from one part of the body into another, usually in the form of a vaccine
  • automatic drive — an automotive transmission requiring either very little or no manual shifting of gears.
  • automatic focus — a system in a camera which automatically adjusts the lens so that the object being photographed is in focus, often one using infrared light to estimate the distance of the object from the camera
  • automatic pilot — An automatic pilot or an autopilot is a device in an aircraft that automatically keeps it on a particular course.
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