16-letter words containing n, o, e

crime of passion — a crime, often a murder, committed from passion, esp sexual passion
crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
crime prevention — official and police policies to prevent crime
criminal offence — an action which is punishable under the law
critical section — A non-re-entrant piece of code that can only be executed by one process at a time. It will usually terminate in bounded time and a process will only have to wait a bounded time to enter it. Some synchronisation mechanism is required at the entry and exit of the critical section to ensure exclusive use.
cromwell current — an equatorial Pacific current, flowing eastward from the Hawaiian Islands to the Galápagos Islands
cross one's mind — to occur to one briefly or suddenly
cross protection — the protection against a viral infection given to a plant by its prior inoculation with a related but milder virus
cross-resistance — immunologic resistance to the pathogenic effects of a microorganism because of previous exposure to another species or type having cross-reactive antigens.
crosscontaminate — Alternative spelling of cross-contaminate.
crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
crown prosecutor — In Britain, a crown prosecutor is a lawyer who works for the state and who prosecutes people who are accused of crimes.
croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
cry for the moon — to desire the unattainable
cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
curbstone broker — a broker in the early American stockmarket who did business in the street
curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
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".
customary tenant — a tenant occupying a property under the customs of the manor, often a low-status tenant with little security of tenure
cut down to size — to reduce the prestige or importance of
cut of one's jib — one's appearance or way of dressing
cut one's losses — to give up spending time, money, or energy on an unprofitable or unsuccessful activity
cut one's throat — to bring about one's own ruin
cute as a button — very sweet, adorable
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
cyclohexamantane — (chemistry) A certain diamondoid, C26H30.
cytotechnologist — a technician who specializes in identifying cells and cellular abnormalities.
dangling pointer — (programming) A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere. In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed and reused. Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved is a dangling pointer.
dark of the moon — the period during which the moon is not visible.
darwinian theory — Darwin's theory of evolution, which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that natural selection determines which forms will survive
data compression — the act of compressing.
data preparation — the process of converting data or information into a form that can be read by a computer, so that the data can then be entered into the computer
data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
day of atonement — Yom Kippur
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 morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
de-anglicization — (in Ireland) the elimination of English influence, language, customs, etc
de-concentration — to reduce the power or control of (a corporation, industry, etc.); decentralize.
de-stalinization — the elimination of the influence of Stalin
dead-man's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
dealcoholization — to remove some or all of the alcohol from (a drink).
dear john letter — a letter from someone (esp to a man) breaking off a love affair
dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
debenture holder — a person or organization holds a debenture

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