15-letter words containing n, o, g, u, c
- 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.
- gnome computers — (company) A small UK hardware and software company. They make transputer boards for the Acorn Archimedes among other things. E-mail: Chris Stenton <[email protected]>.
- 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
- gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
- gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
- haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
- 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
- housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
- 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.
- 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
- immunologically — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- kissing cousins — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
- language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- lignocellulosic — (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
- microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
- motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
- mucosanguineous — containing or made up of blood and mucus
- multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
- neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurolinguistic — pertaining to neurolinguistics
- neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
- neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
- neurotoxicology — the science that deals with the effects of poisons on the nervous system.
- non-functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- nonagricultural — not applied to or generally practicing agriculture: a nonagricultural nation.
- nonmucilaginous — Not mucilaginous.
- nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
- object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
- occulting light — a beacon having a light covered briefly at regular intervals.
- ocean greyhound — a fast ship, esp a liner
- office building — building containing offices
- oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.