11-letter words containing n, o, s, a, c
- gazingstock — (archaic) An object, event or person that is stared at (or gazed at) by many people.
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- gonycampsis — abnormal curvature of the knee.
- grain coast — a historic region on the Gulf of Guinea, in W Africa, in present-day Liberia.
- gynaecomast — a man who suffers from gynaecomastia
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
- harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
- harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
- hash coding — (programming, algorithm) (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- hsuan chiao — Taoism (def 2).
- hyoscyamine — a poisonous alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from henbane and other solanaceous plants, used as a sedative, analgesic, mydriatic, and antispasmodic.
- ice station — a camp or base in an isolated part of the Arctic or Antarctic, manned by specialists to monitor the weather, geological formations, wildlife, etc.
- iconoclasts — Plural form of iconoclast.
- iconostases — Plural form of iconostasis.
- iconostasis — a partition or screen on which icons are placed, separating the sanctuary from the main part of the church.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- icosandrian — (of a plant) having at least twenty stamens
- icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
- importances — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- in contrast — If one thing is in contrast to another, it is very different from it.
- incapacious — Not capacious; narrow, small, weak, or foolish.
- incensation — (Roman Catholic Church) The offering of incense.
- incitations — Plural form of incitation.
- incompassed — Simple past tense and past participle of incompass.
- inconsonant — not consonant or in accord.
- inconstancy — not constant; changeable; fickle; variable: an inconstant friend.
- incubations — Plural form of incubation.
- indications — Plural form of indication.
- infarctions — Plural form of infarction.
- informatics — the study of information processing; computer science.
- infracostal — (anatomy) Below the ribs.
- infractions — Plural form of infraction.
- infrasonics — the branch of science that deals with infrasonic phenomena.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- inosilicate — any silicate having a structure consisting of paired parallel chains of tetrahedral silicate groups, every other of which shares an oxygen atom with a group of the other chain, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 4 to 11.
- insectivora — the order comprising the insectivores.