15-letter words containing r, h, o, n, c, i
- countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
- counterchecking — Present participle of countercheck.
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
- counterpunching — Present participle of counterpunch.
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
- court christian — ecclesiastical court.
- craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
- crashworthiness — the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
- crawling horror — (jargon) Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
- 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.
- crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
- 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.
- cryoanaesthesia — Alternative spelling of cryoanesthesia.
- curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
- decision theory — the study of strategies for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty in such a way as to maximize the expected utility
- dendrochemistry — (chemistry) the science, related to dendrochronology, that uses the analysis of trace minerals in tree rings to study air pollution in past times.
- deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
- derhotacization — A distortion in (or an Inability to pronounce) the sound of letter R, causing the R to be omitted as a consonant or changing /\u025d/ or /\u025a/ to /\u025c/,/\u0259/, or another vowel if a vocalic.
- desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
- dichlorobenzene — any of a group of three insoluble isomeric chemical compounds used in solvents, insecticides, and dyes
- dichloromethane — a noxious colourless liquid widely used as a solvent, e.g. in paint strippers. Formula: CH2Cl2
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- drying-up cloth — a tea towel
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
- eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
- endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
- epichlorohydrin — an organic compound used as a solvent in resin-making
- ethnic minority — an immigrant or racial group regarded by those claiming to speak for the cultural majority as distinct and unassimilated
- ethnocentricism — Ethnocentrism.
- ethnocentricity — Practising or the policies surrounding being ethnocentric.
- factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
- forthcomingness — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
- 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.
- frederick north — Christopher, pen name of John Wilson.
- french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
- friction clutch — a clutch in which one part turns another by friction between them.
- geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
- glass harmonica — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated, revolving glass bowls, the rims of which are moistened and set in vibration by friction from the fingertips.
- 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.
- gregorian chant — the plain song or cantus firmus used in the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.