13-letter words containing o, u, t, f, c, n
- functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- functionalize — to make functional.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
- ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
- interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
- loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
- malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- 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.
- russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
- scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
- 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
- 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.