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15-letter words containing y, c, a

  • cytoplasmically — by means of a cytoplasm
  • cytotrophoblast — the thickened, inner part of the mammalian placenta nearest to the fetus, covering the chorion during early pregnancy
  • dadchelor party — a party primarily attended by men and held to honour and present gifts to a prospective father
  • dairy ice cream — ice cream made from milk rather than artificial ingredients
  • dark-eyed junco — a common North American junco, Junco hyemalis, having a pink bill, gray and brown body plumage, white belly and outer tail feathers, and differing from other species of junco in having a dark brown rather than yellow iris.
  • data dictionary — an index of data held in a database and used to assist in the access to data
  • data redundancy — (data, communications, storage)   Any technique that stores or transmits extra, derived data that can be used to detect or repair errors, either in hardware or software. Examples are parity bits and the cyclic redundancy check. If the cost of errors is high enough, e.g. in a safety-critical system, redundancy may be used in both hardware AND software with three separate computers programmed by three separate teams ("triple redundancy") and some system to check that they all produce the same answer, or some kind of majority voting system. The term is not typically used for other, less beneficial, duplication of data. 2.   (communications)   The proportion of a message's gross information content that can be eliminated without losing essential information. Technically, redundancy is one minus the ratio of the actual uncertainty to the maximum uncertainty. This is the fraction of the structure of the message which is determined not by the choice of the sender, but rather by the accepted statistical rules governing the choice of the symbols in question.
  • dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decatyl alcohol — decanol.
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • decorated style — a 14th-century style of English architecture characterized by the ogee arch, geometrical tracery, and floral decoration
  • defect analysis — (programming)   Using defects as data for continuous quality improvement. Defect analysis generally seeks to classify defects into categories and identify possible causes in order to direct process improvement efforts.
  • delaying action — a measure or measures taken to gain time, as when weaker military forces harass the advance of a superior enemy without coming to a pitched battle
  • delaying tactic — Delaying tactics are things that someone does in order to deliberately delay the start or progress of something.
  • delivery charge — A delivery charge is the cost of transporting or delivering goods.
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • demystification — to rid of mystery or obscurity; clarify: to demystify medical procedures.
  • demythification — the act of demythifying
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
  • diglycolic acid — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 4 H 6 O 5 , used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and plasticizers.
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
  • distance medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards (402 meters), the second runs 880 yards (805 meters), the third runs 1320 yards (1207 meters), and the fourth runs 1760 yards (1609 meters).
  • distractibility — inability to sustain one's attention or attentiveness, which is rapidly diverted from one topic to another: a symptom of a variety of mental disorders, as manic disorder, schizophrenia, or anxiety states.
  • dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
  • dixiecrat party — States' Rights Democratic Party.
  • dodecasyllables — Plural form of dodecasyllable.
  • dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
  • dynamic binding — The property of object-oriented programming languages where the code executed to perform a given operation is determined at run time from the class of the operand(s) (the receiver of the message). There may be several different classes of objects which can receive a given message. An expression may denote an object which may have more than one possible class and that class can only be determined at run time. New classes may be created that can receive a particular message, without changing (or recompiling) the code which sends the message. An class may be created that can receive any set of existing messages. One important reason for having dynamic binding is that it provides a mechanism for selecting between alternatives which is arguably more robust than explicit selection by conditionals or pattern matching. When a new subclass is added, or an existing subclass changes, the necessary modifications are localised: you don't have incomplete conditionals and broken patterns scattered all over the program. See overloading.
  • dynamic pricing — the practice of offering goods at a price that changes according to the level of demand, the type of customer, the state of the weather, etc
  • dynamic routing — (networking)   (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
  • dynamic scoping — dynamic scope
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • dysteleological — Of or pertaining to dysteleology.
  • dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
  • early christian — denoting or relating to the style of architecture that started in Italy in the 3rd century ad and spread through the Roman empire until the 5th century
  • econometrically — In terms of econometrics.
  • economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • electroanalyses — Plural form of electroanalysis.
  • electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodialytic — Relating to electrodialysis.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
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