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15-letter words containing u, d, c

  • iridocapsulitis — inflammation of the iris and the capsule of the lens.
  • islands council — (in Scotland since 1975) any of the three divisions (Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles) into which the Scottish islands are divided for purposes of local government
  • jaques-dalcroze — Émile [French ey-meel] /French eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1865–1950, Swiss composer and teacher: created eurythmics.
  • joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
  • juan de la cruz — San [sahn] /sɑn/ (Show IPA), John of the Cross, Saint.
  • juan del encina — Juan del [hwahn del] /ʰwɑn dɛl/ (Show IPA), 1468?-1529? Spanish poet, composer, and playwright.
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • judicial branch — the branch of government charged with the interpretation of laws and the administration of justice; the judiciary.
  • judicial murder — the unjustified execution of the death penalty
  • judicial review — the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.
  • julian calendar — the calendar established by Julius Caesar in 46 b.c., fixing the length of the year at 365 days and at 366 days every fourth year. There are 12 months of 30 or 31 days, except for February (which has 28 days with the exception of every fourth year, or leap year, when it has 29 days).
  • knuckle-dusters — brass knuckles.
  • lambda calculus — a formalized description of functions and the way in which they combine, developed by Alonzo Church and used in the theory of certain high-level programming languages
  • lambda-calculus — (mathematics)   (Normally written with a Greek letter lambda). A branch of mathematical logic developed by Alonzo Church in the late 1930s and early 1940s, dealing with the application of functions to their arguments. The pure lambda-calculus contains no constants - neither numbers nor mathematical functions such as plus - and is untyped. It consists only of lambda abstractions (functions), variables and applications of one function to another. All entities must therefore be represented as functions. For example, the natural number N can be represented as the function which applies its first argument to its second N times (Church integer N). Church invented lambda-calculus in order to set up a foundational project restricting mathematics to quantities with "effective procedures". Unfortunately, the resulting system admits Russell's paradox in a particularly nasty way; Church couldn't see any way to get rid of it, and gave the project up. Most functional programming languages are equivalent to lambda-calculus extended with constants and types. Lisp uses a variant of lambda notation for defining functions but only its purely functional subset is really equivalent to lambda-calculus. See reduction.
  • lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • lauric aldehyde — a colorless, extremely alcohol-soluble liquid having a strong floral odor, C 12 H 24 O, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • listed security — a security that is quoted on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and appears in its Official List of Securities
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • magna cum laude — with great praise: used in diplomas to grant the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
  • mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • medical student — trainee doctor
  • medical studies — a course of study leading to qualification as a doctor of medicine
  • medical tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • medicine bundle — a wrapped package of items used by some North American Indians for religious or ceremonial purposes.
  • medullary canal — the central area of a bone, containing marrow
  • miscommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscommunicate.
  • mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
  • molecular cloud — a cool dense interstellar region composed of a wide variety of molecules, mainly hydrogen, plus some dust, in which stars are forming
  • monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
  • mononucleotides — Plural form of mononucleotide.
  • multi-channeled — the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
  • multidiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • muscat and oman — former name of Oman.
  • muslim calendar — the lunar calendar used by Muslims and reckoned from a.d. 622: the calendar year consists of 354 days and contains 12 months: Moharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Shaban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu ʾl-Qaʿda, and Dhu ʾl-hijjah. In leap years the month Dhu ʾl-hijjah contains one extra day.
  • narcotics squad — a department of the police which investigates crimes concerning illegal drugs
  • neuroectodermal — Of or pertaining to the neuroectoderm.
  • non-adjudicated — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
  • non-disjunction — the failure of chromosomes to separate and segregate into daughter cells at division.
  • non-documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • non-educational — pertaining to education.
  • nonadjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
  • noncomputerized — not computerized or controlled by computers
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