15-letter words containing t, o, s, i, c
- tortoise brooch — a domed, oval brooch worn in pairs by Viking women.
- toucan crossing — a place where people who are walking and cyclists can both cross a busy road together. They press a button at the side of the road, which operates traffic lights to stop the traffic
- touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
- touch-sensitive — Touch-sensitive equipment is operated by the user touching it.
- tourist traffic — the number of tourists that visit an area
- toxic psychosis — a psychosis resulting from the toxic effect of chemicals, drugs, or certain intrinsic metabolic states.
- training course — practical programme of study
- training school — a school that provides training in some art, profession, or vocation.
- transactionally — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- transhistorical — occurring throughout all human history
- tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
- turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
- tychonic system — a model for planetary motion devised by Tycho Brahe in which the earth is stationary and at the center of the planetary system, the sun and moon revolve around the earth, and the other planets revolve around the sun.
- ultramicroscope — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
- ultramicroscopy — the use of the ultramicroscope.
- unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
- uncompassionate — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- uncomplaisantly — in an uncomplaisant manner
- unconscientious — 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.
- unconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
- unconstrainable — unable to be confined
- unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
- uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- unopportunistic — adhering to a policy of opportunism; practicing opportunism.
- unsanctimonious — Obsolete. holy; sacred.
- unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
- vacation course — a course of study undertaken during a vacation, usually combined with other activities
- vascularization — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vasoconstrictor — a nerve or drug that causes vasoconstriction.
- vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
- venetian school — any of various groups of artists identified with Venice throughout the history of Italian art but most notably the painters of the 18th century, as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi, and Antonio Canaletto.
- vermouth cassis — a mixed drink made with dry vermouth, crème de cassis, soda or mineral water, and cracked ice.
- vers de societe — humorous light verse dealing with fashions and foibles of the time.
- vicar apostolic — Roman Catholic Church. a titular bishop serving either in a district where no episcopal see has been established, or in one where the succession of bishops has been interrupted.
- vicar of christ — the pope, with reference to his claim to stand in the place of Jesus Christ and possess His authority in the church.
- vicissitudinous — a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
- victoria island — an island off the coast of N Canada, in the Arctic Ocean. 80,340 sq. mi. (208,081 sq. km).
- violinistically — in a violinistic manner
- virginian stock — a similar and related North American plant, Malcolmia maritima
- virtuous circle — a beneficial cycle of events or incidents, each having a positive effect on the next.
- viscosity index — an arbitrary scale for lubricating oils that indicates the extent of variation in viscosity with variation of temperature.
- vitreous silica — silica glass
- voice synthesis — the artificial production of the human voice
- volume discount — a reduced price for goods given by a seller on the basis that the buyer buys a large quantity
- voyeuristically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.
- what's cooking? — what's happening?
- white cast iron — cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
- white corpuscle — white blood cell.
- windows sockets — (networking, standard) (Winsock) A specification for Microsoft Windows network software, describing how applications can access network services, especially TCP/IP. Winsock is intended to provide a single API to which application developers should program and to which multiple network software vendors should conform. For any particular version of Microsoft Windows, it defines a binary interface (ABI) such that an application written to the Windows Sockets API can work with a conformant protocol implementation from any network software vendor. Winsock was conceived at Fall Interop '91 during a Birds of a Feather session. Windows Sockets is supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows for Workgroups, Win32s, Windows 95 and Windows NT. It will support protocols other than TCP/IP. Under Windows NT, Microsoft will provide Windows Sockets support over TCP/IP and IPX/SPX. DEC will be implementing DECNet. Windows NT will include mechanisms for multiple protocol support in Windows Sockets, both 32-bit and 16 bit. Mark Towfiq said, "The next rev. of Winsock will not be until toward the end of 1993. We need 1.1 of the API to become firmly settled and implemented first." Currently NetManage (NEWT), Distinct, FTP and Frontier are shipping Winsock TCP/IP stacks, as is Microsoft (Windows NT and TCP/IP for WFW), Beame & Whiteside Software (v1.1 compliant), and Sun PC-NFS. Windows 95 has "dial-up networking" which supports Winsock and TCP/IP. winsock.dll is available from some TCP/IP stack vendors. Novell has one in beta for their Lan Workplace for DOS. Peter Tattam <[email protected]> is alpha-testing a shareware Windows Sockets compliant TCP/IP stack ftp://ftp.utas.edu.au/pc/trumpet/winsock/winsock.zip. and ftp://ftp.utas.edu.au/pc/trumpet/winsock/winpkt.com.