13-letter words containing c, o, s, t, u, i
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- hortus siccus — a collection of dried plants; herbarium.
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- ichthyosaurus — ichthyosaur.
- illusionistic — a technique of using pictorial methods in order to deceive the eye. Compare trompe l'oeil.
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
- impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- incombustible — not combustible; incapable of being burned; fireproof.
- incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
- inconsecutive — not consecutive.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- incorruptness — The state of being incorrupt.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- 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.
- interlocutors — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- introductions — Plural form of introduction.
- isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
- joint custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which two or more people share responsibility.
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
- jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
- justice court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- lactobacillus — any long, slender, rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus, that produces large amounts of lactic acid in the fermentation of carbohydrates, especially in milk.
- 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.
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- 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
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- microcircuits — Plural form of microcircuit.
- milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
- minicomputers — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- miscalculator — A person who miscalculates.
- misconjecture — the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.