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11-letter words containing t, c

  • agriproduct — a product that is a result of agribusiness
  • ahistorical — not related to history; not historical
  • ai-complete — (artificial intelligence, jargon)   /A-I k*m-pleet'/ (MIT, Stanford: by analogy with "NP-complete") A term used to describe problems or subproblems in artificial intelligence, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the "strong AI problem" (that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence). A problem that is AI-complete is, in other words, just too hard. See also gedanken.
  • air attache — a commissioned officer or warrant officer of an air force serving on the staff of an ambassador or minister.
  • air current — a mass of air moving from one area to another
  • air curtain — an air stream across a doorway to exclude draughts, etc
  • air traffic — the organized movement of aircraft within a given space
  • aircraftman — a serviceman of the most junior rank in the RAF
  • aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
  • album chart — a regular listing of bestselling record albums
  • alcalescent — Alternative spelling of alkalescent.
  • alchemistic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
  • alembicated — (of a literary style) excessively refined; precious
  • algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
  • aliturgical — designating those days on which the celebration of certain liturgies, especially the Eucharist, is forbidden.
  • alkalescent — developing alkaline qualities
  • all at once — If something happens all at once, it happens suddenly, often when you are not expecting it to happen.
  • allocatable — that can be allocated.
  • allocations — Plural form of allocation.
  • allocentric — Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
  • allocutions — Plural form of allocution.
  • alloplastic — of or relating to alterations made to a patient's external circumstances for the purpose of affecting his mental condition
  • alpenstocks — Plural form of alpenstock.
  • alpha stock — any of the most active securities on the Stock Exchange of which there are between 100 and 200; at least ten market makers must continuously display the prices of an alpha stock and all transactions in them must be published immediately
  • alt.country — a genre of country music originating in the 1990s and influenced by both early country music and contemporary rock music
  • alt.sources — (messaging, programming)   A Usenet newsgroup for posting program source code.
  • altar cloth — the cloth used for covering an altar: often applied also to the frontal
  • altarpieces — Plural form of altarpiece.
  • altercation — An altercation is a noisy argument or disagreement.
  • altercative — relating to altercation
  • altocumulus — a globular cloud at an intermediate height of about 2400 to 6000 metres (8000 to 20 000 feet)
  • ambulocetus — A large carnivorous amphibian (Ambulocetus natans).
  • amentaceous — of or like an ament or aments
  • americanist — a person who studies some aspect of America, such as its history or languages
  • amethocaine — The drug tetracaine.
  • amicability — characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable: an amicable settlement.
  • ammonotelic — excreting ammonia as the main nitrogenous waste: characteristic of freshwater fishes and many aquatic invertebrates
  • amoebocytes — Plural form of amoebocyte.
  • amphibiotic — having an aquatic larval form and a terrestrial adult form, as amphibians
  • amphictyony — (in ancient Greece) a religious association of states for the maintenance of temples and the cults connected with them
  • amphipathic — of or relating to a molecule that possesses both hydrophobic and hydrophilic elements, such as are found in detergents, or phospholipids of biological membranes
  • amphitricha — bacteria that have flagella at both ends
  • amylopectin — the major component of starch (about 80 per cent), consisting of branched chains of glucose units. It is insoluble and gives a red-brown colour with iodine
  • amyotrophic — (medicine) Characterized by atrophy of the muscles.
  • anacamptics — The science of reflected light; catoptrics.
  • anacanthous — having no spines or thorns.
  • anachronist — A person who has anachronistic views or habits.
  • anacoloutha — Plural form of anacolouthon.
  • anacoluthia — lack of grammatical sequence, esp within a single sentence
  • anacoluthic — Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an anacoluthon.
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