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15-letter words containing e, u, c, r, a

  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
  • currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
  • current account — A current account is a personal bank account which you can take money out of at any time using your cheque book or cash card.
  • current affairs — If you refer to current affairs, you are referring to political events and problems in society which are discussed in newspapers, and on television and radio.
  • current balance — an instrument for measuring electric currents, in which the magnetic force between two current-carrying coils is balanced against a weight.
  • curtain lecture — a scolding or rebuke given in private, esp by a wife to her husband
  • curtain shutter — a focal-plane shutter consisting of a curtain on two rollers, moved at a constant speed past the lens opening so as to expose the film to one of several slots in the curtain, the width of which determines the length of exposure.
  • customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • cyclone furnace — a furnace burning liquid or pulverized fuel in a whirling air column.
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
  • data redundancy — (data, communications, storage)   Any technique that stores or transmits extra, derived data that can be used to detect or repair errors, either in hardware or software. Examples are parity bits and the cyclic redundancy check. If the cost of errors is high enough, e.g. in a safety-critical system, redundancy may be used in both hardware AND software with three separate computers programmed by three separate teams ("triple redundancy") and some system to check that they all produce the same answer, or some kind of majority voting system. The term is not typically used for other, less beneficial, duplication of data. 2.   (communications)   The proportion of a message's gross information content that can be eliminated without losing essential information. Technically, redundancy is one minus the ratio of the actual uncertainty to the maximum uncertainty. This is the fraction of the structure of the message which is determined not by the choice of the sender, but rather by the accepted statistical rules governing the choice of the symbols in question.
  • debureaucratize — to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
  • deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • delta reduction — (theory)   In lambda-calculus extended with constants, delta reduction replaces a function applied to the required number of arguments (a redex) by a result. E.g. plus 2 3 --> 5. In contrast with beta reduction (the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus) the result is not formed simply by textual substitution of arguments into the body of a function. Instead, a delta redex is matched against the left hand side of all delta rules and is replaced by the right hand side of the (first) matching rule. There is notionally one delta rule for each possible combination of function and arguments. Where this implies an infinite number of rules, the result is usually defined by reference to some external system such as mathematical addition or the hardware operations of some computer. For other types, all rules can be given explicitly, for example Boolean negation: not True = False not False = True (1997-02-20)
  • deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • electric guitar — electrically-amplified guitar
  • electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
  • eleutherodactyl — (of a bird) having the hind toe free
  • eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
  • enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
  • eurocheque card — a card that must be shown along with Eurocheques when using them to pay for goods or services. Eurocheque cards were withdrawn in 2002
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • extracellularly — In an extracellular manner.
  • extracurricular — (of an activity at a school or college) Pursued in addition to the normal course of study.
  • extrajudicially — Outside of the legal system.
  • extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
  • 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.
  • feature article — a feature article in a newspaper or magazine deals in depth with a topic or person
  • fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
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