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15-letter words containing c, o, l, u, r, n

  • exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • friction clutch — a clutch in which one part turns another by friction between them.
  • 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.
  • glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
  • graph colouring — (application)   A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
  • gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hyaluronic acid — a mucopolysaccharide serving as a viscous medium in the tissues of the body and as a lubricant in joints.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • interjaculatory — expressed by interjaculating
  • internucleotide — occurring or existing between nucleotides
  • lake-of-lucerne — a canton in central Switzerland. 576 sq. mi. (1490 sq. km).
  • lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
  • lateran council — any of the five ecumenical councils (1123, 1139, 1179, 1215, 1512–17) held in the Lateran Palace.
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • locutionary act — the act of uttering a sentence considered only as such
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
  • microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
  • misarticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
  • molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
  • monoculturalism — The practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences.
  • monomolecularly — In monomolecular terms.
  • motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
  • mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • municipal court — a court whose jurisdiction is confined to a city or municipality, with criminal jurisdiction usually corresponding to that of a police court and civil jurisdiction over small causes.
  • national church — an independent church within a country, usually representing the prevalent religion.
  • neural computer — a computer or a software program that uses a neural network simulating the human brain and can be trained to perform specific tasks, as pattern recognition.
  • neuroanatomical — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
  • neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • neurochemically — In a neurochemical manner or context.
  • neuroectodermal — Of or pertaining to the neuroectoderm.
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