15-letter words containing i, n, o, c, u
- gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
- gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
- gluconeogenesis — glucose formation in animals from a noncarbohydrate source, as from proteins or fats.
- gluconeogenetic — Of or pertaining to gluconeogenesis.
- glucuronic acid — Biochemistry. an acid, C 6 H 10 O 7 , formed by the oxidation of glucose, found combined with other products of metabolism in the blood and urine.
- glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
- graph colouring — (application) A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
- graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
- group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
- gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
- gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
- haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- han unification — Han character
- heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
- heat-conduction — the transfer of thermal energy between molecules
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
- homo economicus — a theoretical human being who rationally calculates the costs and benefits of every action before making a decision, used as the basis for a number of economic theories and models
- house physician — a house officer working in a medical as opposed to a surgical discipline
- housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
- human condition — mortality
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
- hyaluronic acid — a mucopolysaccharide serving as a viscous medium in the tissues of the body and as a lubricant in joints.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydroxycoumarin — (organic compound) Any of several isomeric hydroxy derivatives of coumarin, some of which are the basis of pharmaceuticals.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
- hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
- ignition source — An ignition source is a process or event which can cause a fire or explosion.
- image-conscious — concerned about the way one comes across to other people and the impression one creates
- immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
- immunocompetent — having the potential for immunologic response; capable of developing immunity after exposure to antigen.
- immunodeficient — Exhibiting immunodeficiency.
- immunologically — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
- impecuniousness — The property of being impecunious.
- incapaciousness — the quality of not having (sufficiently) great capacity
- incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
- inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- incommunicative — not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
- incommutability — The quality or state of being incommutable.
- inconsequential — of little or no importance; insignificant; trivial.
- inconspicuously — not conspicuous, noticeable, or prominent.
- incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- induction motor — a type of electric motor in which alternating current from a power source is fed through a primary winding and induces a current in a secondary winding, with the parts arranged so that the resulting magnetic field causes a movable rotor to rotate with respect to a fixed stator.
- inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.