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15-letter words containing t, u, r, n, i

  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • counterviolence — the retaliatory use of violence
  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • counting number — natural number
  • country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
  • country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
  • country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
  • court christian — ecclesiastical court.
  • courting couple — a pair of lovers
  • courting mirror — a small mirror of c1800 having a border and cresting of glass painted with leaves and flowers in imitation of a Chinese style.
  • cpu info center — (processor)   An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
  • credit-crunched — adversely affected by a credit crunch
  • critter cuisine — food consisting of the flesh of insects, eaten as a delicacy in some parts of the world
  • crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
  • crosslinguistic — relating to different languages
  • crush-resistant — not being easily creased
  • cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
  • culturalization — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
  • current affairs — If you refer to current affairs, you are referring to political events and problems in society which are discussed in newspapers, and on television and radio.
  • current density — the ratio of the electric current flowing at a particular point in a conductor to the cross-sectional area of the conductor taken perpendicular to the current flow at that point. It is measured in amperes per square metre
  • current limiter — a device, as a resistor or fuse, that limits the flow of current to a prescribed amount, independent of the voltage applied.
  • curtain lecture — a scolding or rebuke given in private, esp by a wife to her husband
  • curtain shutter — a focal-plane shutter consisting of a curtain on two rollers, moved at a constant speed past the lens opening so as to expose the film to one of several slots in the curtain, the width of which determines the length of exposure.
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • daguerreotyping — Present participle of daguerreotype.
  • daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • deindustrialise — Alternative spelling of deindustrialize.
  • deindustrialize — to reduce the importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of (a nation or area)
  • deleteriousness — The quality of being deleterious.
  • delta reduction — (theory)   In lambda-calculus extended with constants, delta reduction replaces a function applied to the required number of arguments (a redex) by a result. E.g. plus 2 3 --> 5. In contrast with beta reduction (the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus) the result is not formed simply by textual substitution of arguments into the body of a function. Instead, a delta redex is matched against the left hand side of all delta rules and is replaced by the right hand side of the (first) matching rule. There is notionally one delta rule for each possible combination of function and arguments. Where this implies an infinite number of rules, the result is usually defined by reference to some external system such as mathematical addition or the hardware operations of some computer. For other types, all rules can be given explicitly, for example Boolean negation: not True = False not False = True (1997-02-20)
  • density current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
  • deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
  • derequisitioned — Simple past tense and past participle of derequisition.
  • destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • dionysius thrax — c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • direct question — interrogative sentence
  • disarticulating — Present participle of disarticulate.
  • disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disquisitionary — of or relating to a disquisition
  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • distressfulness — The state or quality of being distressful; the state of having or causing anxiety or strain.
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