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15-letter words containing c, y

  • university city — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • unix conspiracy — [ITS] According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20 fans, Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them dependent upon a system whose future evolution was to be under AT&T's control. This would be accomplished by disseminating an operating system that is apparently inexpensive and easily portable, but also relatively unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing upgrades from AT&T). This theory was lent a substantial impetus in 1984 by the paper referenced in the back door entry. In this view, Unix was designed to be one of the first computer viruses (see virus) - but a virus spread to computers indirectly by people and market forces, rather than directly through disks and networks. Adherents of this "Unix virus" theory like to cite the fact that the well-known quotation "Unix is snake oil" was uttered by DEC president Kenneth Olsen shortly before DEC began actively promoting its own family of Unix workstations. (Olsen now claims to have been misquoted.)
  • unknown country — an unfamiliar topic, place, matter, etc
  • unobjectionably — without objection
  • unpatriotically — in a manner that is not enthusiastically supporting one's country and its ways of life
  • unprecedentedly — without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled: an unprecedented event.
  • unrealistically — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • unsarcastically — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
  • urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
  • utility company — a company which supplies utilities, such as gas, electricity, phones, etc
  • utility vehicle — A utility vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
  • vacuum activity — instinctive behaviour occurring in the absence of the appropriate stimulus
  • valency grammar — a system of linguistic syntax, conceived by analogy with chemical valency, according to which verbs have valencies dependent on the number of noun phrases with which they combine
  • varicocelectomy — the surgical removal or ligation of varicose veins in the scrotal sac.
  • vascular system — plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels, that, in the higher plants, forms the system (vascular system) by which sap is conveyed through the plant.
  • vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
  • vice-presidency — the position of a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic, esp of the US, and serves as his deputy
  • victoria nyanza — Victoria (def 10).
  • video frequency — transmission frequency of the television picture.
  • vine technology — (company)   A company which provides professional consulting services in the areas of networking, real-time systems, graphic arts, and web server advertisement space. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • violinistically — in a violinistic manner
  • viscosity index — an arbitrary scale for lubricating oils that indicates the extent of variation in viscosity with variation of temperature.
  • visual literacy — the ability to apprehend or interpret pictures or other visual images.
  • voice synthesis — the artificial production of the human voice
  • voltaic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • volume velocity — the movement caused by a sound wave of a unit volume of a sound-transmitting medium through a unit area per unit of time.
  • voyeuristically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.
  • walleye pollock — a cod, Theragra chalcogramma, ranging the northern Pacific, that is related to and resembles the pollock.
  • well trajectory — The well trajectory is the direction in which the well is drilled.
  • white supremacy — the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.
  • whitley council — any of a number of organizations made up of representatives of employees and employers for joint consultation on and settlement of industrial relations and conditions for a particular industry or service
  • xerographically — In a xerographic way; by xerography.
  • xylotypographic — involving or pertaining to xylotypography
  • yeast infection — candida: genital inflammation
  • yin-yang school — a school of ancient Chinese philosophers who interpreted history in terms of the influence of the seasons and of five elements: earth, wood, metal, fire, and water.
  • yorkshire chair — Derbyshire chair.
  • you can keep it — I have no interest in what you are offering
  • your-excellency — (usually initial capital letter). Also, Excellence. a title of honor given to certain high officials, as governors, ambassadors, and Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops (preceded by his, your, etc.).
  • youth orchestra — an orchestra that is made up of young musicians
  • yucatán channel — a channel between W Cuba and the Yucatán peninsula
  • zoophytological — of or relating to zoophytology
  • zygophyllaceous — belonging to the Zygophyllaceae, the caltrop family of plants.
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