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15-letter words containing u, d, c

  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • functional food — a food containing additives which provide extra nutritional value
  • functional load — the relative frequency of occurrence of words that are differentiated in one and the same position by only one distinctive feature. In English, the opposition of voiced and voiceless th has a low functional load being used only to distinguish such pairs as ether and either, or wreath and wreathe.
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • glucocorticoids — Plural form of glucocorticoid.
  • glucuronic acid — Biochemistry. an acid, C 6 H 10 O 7 , formed by the oxidation of glucose, found combined with other products of metabolism in the blood and urine.
  • glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • 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.
  • great barracuda — a large barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, of Atlantic and western Pacific seas.
  • guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
  • guild socialism — a form of socialism developed in England in the 20th century, emphasizing decentralization of industry and services with control to be vested in autonomous guilds of workers.
  • hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
  • hard-luck story — a story of misfortune designed to elicit sympathy
  • hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
  • hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • heat-conduction — the transfer of thermal energy between molecules
  • hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
  • homochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth in which the sepals and petals are fused together and indistinguishable
  • horned cucumber — a tropical African plant, Cucumis metuliferus, having fruit with spiky, orange skin and jellylike pulp that tastes like cucumbers.
  • house detective — an employee of a department store, hotel, etc., employed to prevent thefts, violations of regulations, or other forms of misconduct on the part of patrons.
  • human condition — mortality
  • humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hyaluronic acid — a mucopolysaccharide serving as a viscous medium in the tissues of the body and as a lubricant in joints.
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • hydraulic fluid — a fluid, usually of low viscosity, as oil, used in a hydraulic system.
  • hydraulic motor — a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
  • hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hydroxycoumarin — (organic compound) Any of several isomeric hydroxy derivatives of coumarin, some of which are the basis of pharmaceuticals.
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • ichthyodorulite — a spiny plate located on the tail and back of some fish or similar vertebrates
  • immunodeficient — Exhibiting immunodeficiency.
  • in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
  • incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • individualistic — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
  • induction motor — a type of electric motor in which alternating current from a power source is fed through a primary winding and induces a current in a secondary winding, with the parts arranged so that the resulting magnetic field causes a movable rotor to rotate with respect to a fixed stator.
  • injudiciousness — The state or condition of being injudicious.
  • internucleotide — occurring or existing between nucleotides
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