15-letter words containing o, r, t, h, d, n
- 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.
- grind to a halt — If a country's economy or something such as a process grinds to a halt, it gradually becomes slower or less active until it stops.
- growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
- half-understood — partially understood
- haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
- hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
- heart condition — cardiac disorder
- heart tamponade — tamponade (def 2).
- hearth and home — domestic realm
- hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
- hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
- hernando cortez — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- horner's method — a technique, involving successive substitutions, for approximating the real roots of an equation with real coefficients.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- hybrid antibody — a synthetic antibody that is able to combine with two different antigens
- hydrodynamicist — a specialist in hydrodynamics.
- 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.
- hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
- hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
- identity theory — a form of materialism which holds mental states to be identical with certain states of the brain and so to have no separate existence, but regards this identity as contingent so that mentalistic and physicalistic language are not held to be synonymous
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- indian hawthorn — a southern Chinese evergreen shrub, Raphiolepis indica, of the rose family, having shiny, leathery leaves and pinkish-white flowers in loose clusters.
- indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
- into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
- labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
- noncreditworthy — Not creditworthy.
- norethandrolone — An anabolic steroid.
- north highlands — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- north tonawanda — a city in W New York.
- northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
- northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
- odontorhynchous — (of birds) having toothlike ridges inside the beak
- on (the) record — recorded; publicly or officially declared or known
- on the decrease — decreasing
- on the order of — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- ornithodelphian — of or relating to mammals of the class Ornithodelphia
- ortho-toluidine — Chemistry. a light-yellow, very slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 9 N, the ortho isomer of toluidine: used in the manufacture of dyes, saccharin, and other organic compounds, and in textile printing processes.
- orthodontically — from an orthodontic point of view
- osteochondritis — inflammation of bone and cartilage.
- osteochondrosis — a disease of bone and cartilage growth centers in children that begins as a necrosis and is followed by regeneration or renewed calcification.
- outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
- photoproduction — the light-induced production of a species of molecule such as a radical or ion
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms