15-letter words containing o, n, p, r, i, c
- corporatization — The privatization of a publicly-owned organization.
- corporification — an act or the quality of embodying
- correction tape — a tape that can be placed over a written or typed mistake, on which the correct form can be written or typed, thereby covering the mistake underneath
- correspondingly — You use correspondingly when describing a situation which is closely connected with one you have just mentioned or is similar to it.
- corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
- countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
- counterpetition — a formal request for legal action submitted to a court by a respondent who has received a petition
- counterplotting — Present participle of counterplot.
- counterpointing — Present participle of counterpoint.
- counterpunching — Present participle of counterpunch.
- country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
- courting couple — a pair of lovers
- cpu info center — (processor) An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
- craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
- cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
- cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
- cross-ownership — ownership of two or more similar or related businesses, as communications media, especially in the same locality: to forbid cross-ownership of newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same city.
- cross-pollinate — to subject or be subjected to cross-pollination
- crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
- crossopterygian — any bony fish of the subclass Crossopterygii, having fleshy limblike pectoral fins. The group, now mostly extinct, contains the ancestors of the amphibians
- csk corporation — (company) The japanese company that owns CSK Software and Sega. CSK Corp. is the largest independent japanese software company.
- cyanide process — a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide
- cyclobenzaprine — A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
- data processing — Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
- data protection — (in Britain) safeguards for individuals relating to personal data stored on a computer
- deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
- descriptionless — Without a description.
- direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
- disincorporated — Simple past tense and past participle of disincorporate.
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- dwarf poinciana — royal poinciana.
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- editio princeps — first edition.
- egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
- electron optics — the study and use of beams of electrons and of their deflection and focusing by electric and magnetic fields
- epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
- epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
- eric conspiracy — (person, humour) A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (of the "Allman style" described under indent style), Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP), Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site.
- existence proof — non-constructive proof
- expressionistic — Expressionist.
- fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
- food processing — transforming raw materials into food
- forensic expert — an expert in applying scientific, technical or medical knowledge to the purposes of law
- frederic chopin — Frédéric François [fred-uh-rik fran-swah,, fred-rik;; French frey-dey-reek frahn-swa] /ˈfrɛd ə rɪk frænˈswɑ,, ˈfrɛd rɪk;; French freɪ deɪˈrik frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1810–49, Polish composer and pianist, in France after 1831.
- gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
- gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
- 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.