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13-letter words containing o, f, c, u, t

  • memo function — (programming)   (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
  • metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • multifactoral — Involving multiple factors.
  • multifunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • mummification — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
  • mundification — the act of cleansing a wound
  • munroe effect — the reinforcement of shock waves in the concave, hollow end of a shaped charge, producing a greater resultant wave and concentrating the explosion along the axis of the charge.
  • nectariferous — producing nectar.
  • neuroeffector — The junction site, where a motor neuron releases a neurotransmitter to affect a target, that acts like an effector.
  • noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
  • nonfunctional — Not having any particular purpose or function.
  • noninfectious — (of a disease or disease-causing organism) not liable to be transmitted through the environment.
  • not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
  • nullification — an act or instance of nullifying.
  • on account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • onto function — Mathematics. a function from one set to a second set, the range of which is the entire second set.
  • open fracture — compound fracture.
  • out of action — If someone or something is out of action, they are injured or damaged and cannot work or be used.
  • out of office — (of a government) out of power
  • out of pocket — small enough or suitable for carrying in the pocket: a pocket watch.
  • out-of-pocket — paid out in cash or from one's own financial resources and sometimes reimbursed: My out-of-pocket travel expenses included taking business clients to dinner.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
  • scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
  • self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
  • self-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
  • sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
  • sound effects — any sounds artificially produced, reproduced from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop; used in plays, films, etc
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
  • stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
  • think much of — to have a high opinion of
  • thurification — the act of incense-burning
  • tour de force — an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius: Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
  • traffic court — a court that passes on alleged violations of traffic laws.
  • trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
  • trig function — Also called circular function. a function of an angle, as sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
  • uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
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