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15-letter words containing c, o, y

  • exoerythrocytic — occurring outside the red blood cells, esp of a developmental stage of protozoan parasites
  • extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
  • factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • finance company — an institution engaged in such specialized forms of financing as purchasing accounts receivable, extending credit to retailers and manufacturers, discounting installment contracts, and granting loans with goods as security.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • 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
  • flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
  • floating policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
  • fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • food technology — a branch of technology that is involved in the production of food
  • for a certainty — without doubt
  • frederick soddy — Frederick, 1877–1956, English chemist: Nobel prize 1921.
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
  • gastronomically — the art or science of good eating.
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • gene technology — manipulation of DNA
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • geotectonically — from a geotectonic point of view
  • glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
  • gloucester city — a city in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
  • glycogenic acid — gluconic acid.
  • glyconeogenesis — gluconeogenesis.
  • glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
  • gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
  • graphologically — In terms of or by means of graphology.
  • gross indecency — sexual offence
  • gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
  • gynandromorphic — (of an organism) Having male and female characteristics.
  • hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
  • hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
  • heliocentricity — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
  • heliometrically — By means of, or in terms of, heliometry.
  • hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
  • hemicryptophyte — any perennial plant that bears its overwintering buds at soil level, where they are often partly covered by surface debris
  • hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • heterocercality — the condition or state of having a heterocercal tail
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