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15-letter words containing am

  • confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
  • control program — (operating system)   (CP) The component of IBM's Virtual Machine (VM) that provides "guest support" for operating systems that run on IBM mainframe compatible processors. Cp does this by providing a seamless emulation of privileged functions in the problem program environment.
  • corticothalamic — Of or pertaining to the cortex and the thalamus.
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
  • counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
  • crash programme — a short intensive programme to learn a skill, language, etc
  • cream of tartar — Cream of tartar is a white powder used in baking.
  • cream-crackered — exhausted
  • criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
  • 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
  • cyclohexylamine — a highly toxic and hazardous organic chemical derived from cyclohexane
  • dairy ice cream — ice cream made from milk rather than artificial ingredients
  • decontaminating — Present participle of decontaminate.
  • decontamination — to make (an object or area) safe for unprotected personnel by removing, neutralizing, or destroying any harmful substance, as radioactive material or poisonous gas.
  • deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
  • dexfenfluramine — an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • diamine oxidase — an enzyme, occurring in the digestive system, that inactivates histamine by removal of its amino group
  • diamond cutting — the art or work of cutting and shaping rough diamonds to make them suitable for use by the jewellery trade
  • diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
  • diamond wedding — the 60th, or occasionally the 75th, anniversary of a marriage
  • diphenhydramine — a white, crystalline, antihistaminic compound, C 17 H 21 NO, used orally, topically, and parenterally, especially for allergies.
  • disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
  • dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
  • dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
  • 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
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • electromyograms — Plural form of electromyogram.
  • electron camera — a camera which uses electron beams, esp a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal
  • electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
  • enamel painting — the art or process of decorating an object made of metal, porcelain, etc. using enamel paint
  • ethyl carbamate — a colourless odourless crystalline ester that is used in the manufacture of pesticides, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CO(NH2)OC2H5
  • ethylenediamine — A viscous liquid used in making detergents and emulsifying agents.
  • examining board — an organization that sets and corrects exams
  • exhibition game — In sports, an exhibition game is a game that is not part of a competition, and is played for entertainment or practice, often without any serious effort to win.
  • extended family — relatives
  • eye examination — an eye test
  • familiar spirit — a supernatural spirit often assuming animal form, supposed to attend and aid a witch, wizard, etc
  • familiarisation — Alternative spelling of familiarization.
  • familiarization — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • family business — company owned and run by a family
  • family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
  • family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
  • family planning — the concept or a program of limiting the size of families through the spacing or prevention of pregnancies, especially for economic reasons.
  • family practice — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
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