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15-letter words containing o, u, t, e

  • combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combat trousers — Combat trousers are large, loose trousers with lots of pockets.
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
  • come out on top — If a person, organization, or country comes out on top, they are more successful than the others that they have been competing with.
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • common multiple — an integer or polynomial that is a multiple of each integer or polynomial in a group
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
  • communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
  • community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
  • commutative law — a law asserting that the order in which certain logical operations are performed is indifferent.
  • compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
  • compton-burnett — Dame Ivy. 1884–1969, English novelist. Her novels include Men and Wives (1931) and Mother and Son (1955)
  • computer cookie — HTTP cookie
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • computer ethics — (philosophy)   Ethics is the field of study that is concerned with questions of value, that is, judgments about what human behaviour is "good" or "bad". Ethical judgments are no different in the area of computing from those in any other area. Computers raise problems of privacy, ownership, theft, and power, to name but a few. Computer ethics can be grounded in one of four basic world-views: Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, or Existentialism. Idealists believe that reality is basically ideas and that ethics therefore involves conforming to ideals. Realists believe that reality is basically nature and that ethics therefore involves acting according to what is natural. Pragmatists believe that reality is not fixed but is in process and that ethics therefore is practical (that is, concerned with what will produce socially-desired results). Existentialists believe reality is self-defined and that ethics therefore is individual (that is, concerned only with one's own conscience). Idealism and Realism can be considered ABSOLUTIST worldviews because they are based on something fixed (that is, ideas or nature, respectively). Pragmatism and Existentialism can be considered RELATIVIST worldviews because they are based or something relational (that is, society or the individual, respectively). Thus ethical judgments will vary, depending on the judge's world-view. Some examples: First consider theft. Suppose a university's computer is used for sending an e-mail message to a friend or for conducting a full-blown private business (billing, payroll, inventory, etc.). The absolutist would say that both activities are unethical (while recognising a difference in the amount of wrong being done). A relativist might say that the latter activities were wrong because they tied up too much memory and slowed down the machine, but the e-mail message wasn't wrong because it had no significant effect on operations. Next consider privacy. An instructor uses her account to acquire the cumulative grade point average of a student who is in a class which she instructs. She obtained the password for this restricted information from someone in the Records Office who erroneously thought that she was the student's advisor. The absolutist would probably say that the instructor acted wrongly, since the only person who is entitled to this information is the student and his or her advisor. The relativist would probably ask why the instructor wanted the information. If she replied that she wanted it to be sure that her grading of the student was consistent with the student's overall academic performance record, the relativist might agree that such use was acceptable. Finally, consider power. At a particular university, if a professor wants a computer account, all she or he need do is request one but a student must obtain faculty sponsorship in order to receive an account. An absolutist (because of a proclivity for hierarchical thinking) might not have a problem with this divergence in procedure. A relativist, on the other hand, might question what makes the two situations essentially different (e.g. are faculty assumed to have more need for computers than students? Are students more likely to cause problems than faculty? Is this a hold-over from the days of "in loco parentis"?).
  • computer memory — memory (def 11).
  • computer screen — the working area on the monitor of a computer
  • computer system — a computer or a set of computers that works together
  • computer vision — a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
  • computer-phobia — a person who distrusts or is intimidated by computers.
  • computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
  • computerization — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
  • conceptualistic — Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
  • conceptualizing — Present participle of conceptualize.
  • concrete jungle — If you refer to a city or area as a concrete jungle, you mean that it has a lot of modern buildings and you think it is ugly or unpleasant to live in.
  • concrete number — a number referring to a particular object or objects, as in three dogs, ten men
  • concurrent lisp — (language)   A concurrent version of Lisp. Sugimoto et al implemented an interpreter on a "large scale computer" and were planning to implement it on multiple microprocessors.
  • concurrent user — one of several simultaneous users of a computing resource such as a computer program or file
  • conductiometric — conductometric
  • conjunctiveness — the quality of being conjunctive
  • conscientiously — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
  • consecutiveness — The state or quality of being consecutive.
  • consentaneously — In a consentaneous manner.
  • consequentially — following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
  • construct state — (in Semitic languages) the inflected form of a noun dependent on a following noun, with the combination expressing a genitive relationship, as Hebrew beth David “house of David,” where beth “house of” is the construct form of bayit “house.”.
  • consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation
  • consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
  • consumer market — the market of consumers for a particular good or service
  • consumer strike — a boycott of a product by consumers, often in protest over a raise in its price.
  • contemporaneous — If two events or situations are contemporaneous, they happen or exist during the same period of time.
  • contentiousness — The state of being contentious.
  • contextualising — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • contextualizing — Present participle of contextualize.
  • continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
  • contour feather — any of the feathers that cover the body of an adult bird, apart from the wings and tail, and determine its shape
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