15-letter words containing u, n, i, t, e
- counterinstance — an instance that refutes a theory
- counterirritant — an agent that causes a superficial irritation of the skin and thereby relieves inflammation of deep structures
- countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
- counterpetition — a formal request for legal action submitted to a court by a respondent who has received a petition
- counterplotting — Present participle of counterplot.
- counterpointing — Present participle of counterpoint.
- counterpunching — Present participle of counterpunch.
- counterquestion — a question which acts as a reply to another question
- counterreaction — a reaction against an initial action
- counterrotating — (of two corresponding or similar moving parts) rotating in opposite directions: counterrotating propellers.
- countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
- 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 kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
- county palatine — the lands of a count palatine
- courting couple — a pair of lovers
- 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
- crush-resistant — not being easily creased
- cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
- 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.
- de-unionization — to eliminate labor unions from (a company, industry, etc.).
- decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
- decasualization — the replacement of casual workers by permanent employees
- decommunization — the act or process of decommunizing
- decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
- decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
- deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- definite clause — (logic) A Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- deindividuation — the loss of a person's sense of individuality and personal responsibility
- 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)
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demutualization — Demutualization is a situation in which a mutually owned company such as an insurance company changes into a public company that issues stock.
- density current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
- deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.