13-letter words containing c, o, n, t, i, u
- incultivation — (obsolete) Want of cultivation.
- inculturation — enculturation.
- indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
- inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
- insectivorous — adapted to feeding on insects.
- instructional — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.
- insurrections — Plural form of insurrection.
- intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- interjunction — an act of joining; combining.
- interlocution — conversation; dialogue.
- interlocutors — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- interlocutory — of the nature of, pertaining to, or occurring in conversation: interlocutory instruction.
- interlocutrix — A female interlocutor.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interpunction — the insertion of punctuation marks in a piece of writing
- intraocularly — into or in the eye
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- introductions — Plural form of introduction.
- joint account — a bank account in the names of two or more persons or parties and subject to withdrawals by each.
- joint custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which two or more people share responsibility.
- junction city — a city in NE Kansas.
- junior doctor — a doctor in postgraduate training
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
- jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- keep in touch — stay in contact
- knuckle joint — a joint forming a knuckle.
- lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
- loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- macromutation — a mutation that has a profound effect on the resulting organism, as a change in a regulatory gene that controls the expression of many structural genes.
- macronutrient — Nutrition. any of the nutritional components of the diet that are required in relatively large amounts: protein, carbohydrate, fat, and the macrominerals.
- malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- matriculation — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- memo function — (programming) (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- micronucleate — having a micronucleus.