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16-letter words containing n, c, r

  • current expenses — noncapital and usually recurrent expenditures necessary for the operation of a business
  • curried function — (mathematics, programming)   A function of N arguments that is considered as a function of one argument which returns another function of N-1 arguments. E.g. in Haskell we can define: average :: Int -> (Int -> Int) (The parentheses are optional). A partial application of average, to one Int, e.g. (average 4), returns a function of type (Int -> Int) which averages its argument with 4. In uncurried languages a function must always be applied to all its arguments but a partial application can be represented using a lambda abstraction: \ x -> average(4,x) Currying is necessary if full laziness is to be applied to functional sub-expressions. It was named after the logician Haskell Curry but the 19th-century logician, Gottlob Frege was the first to propose it and it was first referred to in ["Uber die Bausteine der mathematischen Logik", M. Schoenfinkel, Mathematische Annalen. Vol 92 (1924)]. Stefan Kahrs <[email protected]> reported hearing somebody in Germany trying to introduce "scho"nen" for currying and "finkeln" for "uncurrying". The verb "scho"nen" means "to beautify"; "finkeln" isn't a German word, but it suggests "to fiddle".
  • currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
  • curtain-twitcher — a person who likes to watch unobserved what other people are doing
  • customary tenant — a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor, often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
  • cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
  • cut one's throat — to bring about one's own ruin
  • cutoff frequency — a frequency level above or below which a device fails to respond or operate efficiently
  • cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
  • cycle of erosion — the hypothetical sequence of modifications to the earth's surface by erosion, from the original uplift of the land to the ultimate low plain, usually divided into the youthful, mature, and old stages
  • dabrowa gornicza — an industrial city in S Poland.
  • darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
  • data abstraction — (data)   Any representation of data in which the implementation details are hidden (abstracted). Abstract data types and objects are the two primary forms of data abstraction.
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
  • day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
  • dc potentiometer — A DC potentiometer is a potentiometer in which the supply is a battery and the balance is under direct current conditions.
  • de-concentration — to reduce the power or control of (a corporation, industry, etc.); decentralize.
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • debut appearance — debut
  • decentralisation — Alternative spelling of decentralization.
  • decentralization — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
  • dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
  • decimal currency — a system of currency in which the monetary units are parts or powers of ten
  • decimal fraction — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
  • declare war (on) — to make a formal declaration of being at war (with)
  • deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
  • defective number — a positive number that is greater than the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 10, which is greater than the sum of 1, 2, and 5.
  • definite article — The word 'the' is sometimes called the definite article.
  • deflecting force — the apparent deflection (Coriolis acceleration) of a body in motion with respect to the earth, as seen by an observer on the earth, attributed to a fictitious force (Coriolis force) but actually caused by the rotation of the earth and appearing as a deflection to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and a deflection to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • delayed reaction — response after an interval
  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • dementia praecox — schizophrenia
  • demoiselle crane — a gray crane, Anthropoides virgo, of northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, having long, white plumes behind each eye.
  • dendrochronology — the study of the annual rings of trees, used esp to date past events
  • dental insurance — Dental insurance is insurance that pays for treatment by a dentist.
  • denuclearization — The act or process of denuclearizing.
  • deoxyribonucleic — (genetics) Of or pertaining to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or its derivatives.
  • dependency-prone — tending to become psychologically or physiologically dependent on a drug.
  • depth perception — ability to see objects in perspective
  • deradicalization — the practice of encouraging those with extreme and violent religious or political ideologies to adopt more moderate views
  • destructibleness — The quality of being destructible.
  • detention center — A detention center is a sort of prison, for example, a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept while a decision is made about what to do with them.
  • detention centre — A detention centre is a sort of prison, for example a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept while a decision is made about what to do with them.
  • deuterocanonical — of or constituting a second or subsequent canon; specif., designating certain Biblical books accepted as canonical in the Roman Catholic Church, but held by Protestants to be apocryphal
  • device control 1 — control-Q
  • device control 2 — (character)   (DC2) The mnemonic for ASCII character 18, one of the four Device Control characters.
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