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13-letter words containing d, o, c, u

  • eudicotyledon — any plant belonging to one of the two major groups of flowering plants, comprising over 60 per cent of all plants, normally having net-veined leaves and two cotyledons in the seed
  • faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • fold function — (programming)   In functional programming, fold or "reduce" is a kind of higher-order function that takes as arguments a function, an initial "accumulator" value and a data structure (often a list). In Haskell, the two flavours of fold for lists, called foldl and foldr are defined like this: foldl :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> a foldl f z [] = z foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b foldr f z [] = z foldr f z (x:xs) = f x (foldr f z xs) In both cases, if the input list is empty, the result is the value of the accumulator, z. If not, foldl takes the head of the list, x, and returns the result of recursing on the tail of the list using (f z x) as the new z. foldr returns (f x q) where q is the result of recursing on the tail. The "l" and "r" in the names refer to the associativity of the application of f. Thus if f = (+) (the binary plus operator used as a function of two arguments), we have: foldl (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = (((0 + 1) + 2) + 3 (applying + left associatively) and foldr (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = 0 + (1 + (2 + 3)) (applying + right associatively). For +, this makes no difference but for an non-commutative operator it would.
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • gluconic acid — a colorless, water-soluble acid, C 6 H 12 O 7 , obtained by the oxidation of glucose, used commercially in a 50-percent solution for cleaning metals.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
  • good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
  • ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
  • ground cherry — Also called husk tomato. any of several plants belonging to the genus Physalis, of the nightshade family, the several species bearing an edible berry enclosed in an enlarged calyx.
  • ground colour — a colour on which other colours are superimposed to create a pattern
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
  • here document — (operating system)   Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
  • hexadactylous — hexadactylic
  • high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
  • horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
  • hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
  • hyperproducer — an increased or rapid producer
  • hypochondrium — either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.
  • hypoeutectoid — (of steel) having less carbon than the 0.8 percent of eutectoid steel.
  • in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
  • 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.
  • incommunicado — (especially of a prisoner) deprived of any communication with others.
  • inconcludable — Impossible to conclude; unfinishable.
  • incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • injudiciously — not judicious; showing lack of judgment; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet: an injudicious decision.
  • inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
  • introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
  • introductions — Plural form of introduction.
  • jacquard loom — a loom for producing elaborate designs in an intricate weave (Jacquard weave) constructed from a variety of basic weaves.
  • jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
  • joint custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which two or more people share responsibility.
  • judiciousness — The state of being judicious.
  • juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
  • junior doctor — a doctor in postgraduate training
  • jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
  • labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
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