15-letter words containing c, o, t, e, a, u
- 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.
- fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
- florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
- 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.
- functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
- gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
- heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
- heat-conduction — the transfer of thermal energy between molecules
- hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
- heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- horatius cocles — a legendary Roman hero of the 6th century bc, who defended a bridge over the Tiber against Lars Porsena
- hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
- incommunicative — not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
- inconsequential — of little or no importance; insignificant; trivial.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- interjaculatory — expressed by interjaculating
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- juice extractor — device: squeezes juice from fruit
- 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.
- laptop computer — portable computer
- latent function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is unintentional and often unrecognized.
- 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.
- linear function — linear transformation.
- luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
- macro-structure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- macrostructures — Plural form of macrostructure.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- medical tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
- miscommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscommunicate.
- motor insurance — insurance for a motor vehicle such as a car, which provides protection against loss in the event of an accident, theft, etc
- mount vancouver — a mountain on the border between Canada and Alaska, in the St Elias Mountains. Height: 4785 m (15 700 ft)
- mountain rescue — search and rescue conducted on a mountain, for example of someone who has fallen, got lost, etc
- multinucleolate — having two or more nucleoli
- multiple factor — polygene.
- musculoskeletal — concerning, involving, or made up of both the muscles and the bones: the musculoskeletal system.
- netzahualcoyotl — a city in S central Mexico, in the state of Mexico.
- 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.