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15-letter words containing c, r, a, y, o

  • cache coherency — (storage)   (Or "cache consistency") /kash koh-heer'n-see/ The synchronisation of data in multiple caches such that reading a memory location via any cache will return the most recent data written to that location via any (other) cache. Some parallel processors do not cache accesses to shared memory to avoid the issue of cache coherency. If caches are used with shared memory then some system is required to detect when data in one processor's cache should be discarded or replaced because another processor has updated that memory location. Several such schemes have been devised.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • calcareous clay — soil with high limestone content
  • calydonian boar — a savage boar sent by Artemis to destroy Calydon, a city in Aetolia, because its king had neglected to sacrifice to her. It was killed by Meleager, the king's son
  • camelot library — (library)  
  • canning factory — a building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly where food is sealed in cans or tins to preserve it
  • cape gooseberry — a tropical American solanaceous plant, Physalis peruviana, naturalized in southern Africa, having yellow flowers and edible yellow berries
  • carboxylic acid — any of a class of organic acids containing the carboxyl group
  • carcinogenicity — any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer.
  • cardiopulmonary — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and lungs
  • carry one's bat — (of an opening batsman) to reach the end of an innings without being dismissed
  • carry the torch — If you say that someone is carrying the torch of a particular belief or movement, you mean that they are working hard to ensure that it is not forgotten and continues to grow stronger.
  • cassette memory — a removable magnetic tape cartridge that stores data and programs.
  • category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
  • cavalry officer — an officer in a cavalry regiment
  • charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
  • charles simonyi — (person)   Microsoft programmer, most famously responsible for Hungarian Notation. Simonyi was born in Budapest in 1948, and for more than a decade was senior programmer at Microsoft in Redmond.
  • chartophylacium — (in a medieval church) a place for the keeping of records and documents.
  • chemoautotrophy — the process of deriving energy through oxidizing inorganic chemical compounds, as opposed to photosynthesis
  • chemopsychiatry — the study and application of chemical substances in psychiatry
  • chloral hydrate — a colourless crystalline soluble solid produced by the reaction of chloral with water and used as a sedative and hypnotic; 2,2,2-trichloro-1,1-ethanediol. Formula: CCl3CH(OH)2
  • cholangiography — radiographic examination of the bile ducts after the introduction into them of a contrast medium
  • cholinergically — in a cholinergic manner
  • chromoxylograph — a coloured print created from printing with wooden blocks
  • chronologically — arranged in the order of time: a chronological list of events.
  • ciliary process — one of the folds on the ciliary body, connected with the suspensory ligament of the crystalline lens.
  • cineangiography — the use of motion-picture recording to trace the passage of dye through blood vessels, for the diagnosis of heart and blood vessel disease
  • cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
  • cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
  • coast artillery — artillery used for defending coastal areas.
  • collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
  • colouristically — in a colouristic manner
  • combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
  • comfortably off — If someone is comfortably off, they have enough money to be able to live without financial problems.
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • commodity trade — trade in raw materials and food
  • communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
  • company manners — rules of politeness that people, esp children, are supposed to observe in the presence of other people
  • company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
  • complementarily — In a complementary manner.
  • complementarity — a state or system that involves complementary components
  • complimentarily — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • concealed-carry — the practice of carrying a concealed gun or other weapon in public.
  • concrete syntax — (language, data)   The syntax of a language including all the features visible in the source code such as parentheses and delimiters. The concrete syntax is used when parsing the program or other input, during which it is usually converted into some kind of abstract syntax tree (conforming to an abstract syntax). In communications, concrete syntax is called transfer syntax.
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • congressionally — of or relating to a congress.
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • contemporaneity — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • contractability — (of a body or substance) the ability to become smaller, narrower, shorter, etc
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