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15-letter words containing co

  • arroz con pollo — a Latin American dish consisting of chicken and rice cooked usually with saffron
  • ascending colon — the first portion of the colon, beginning at the cecum in the lower right abdominal cavity and continuing upward along the right posterior abdominal wall to approximately the lower ribs.
  • as…as they come — the most characteristic example of a class or type
  • at the controls — If someone is at the controls of a machine or other piece of equipment, they are operating it.
  • atomic cocktail — an aqueous solution of radioactive substance administered orally as part of the treatment for cancer
  • audio recording — an electronic recording of sound
  • autocollimation — the process used in an autocollimator.
  • autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
  • autocorrelative — Relating to autocorrelation.
  • autostereoscopy — The display of stereoscopic images without the use of special viewing equipment.
  • baconian method — induction (def 4a).
  • baconian theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Francis Bacon.
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • balance control — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
  • bar-code reader — an electronic machine that scans and reads bar codes
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • barn conversion — the adaptation of a farm barn into a building serving a different use, such as a house or commercial premises
  • basic autocoder — Early system on IBM 7070. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • benefit concert — a concert to raise money for charity
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • bits per second — (communications, unit)   (bps, b/s) The unit in which data rate is measured. For example, a modem's data rate is usually measured in kilobits per second. In 1996, the maximum modem speed for use on the PSTN was 33.6 kbps, rising to 56 kbps in 1997. Note that kilo- (k), mega- (M), etc. in data rates denote powers of 1000, not 1024.
  • bituminous coal — a soft black coal, rich in volatile hydrocarbons, that burns with a smoky yellow flame. Fixed carbon content: 46–86 per cent; calorific value: 1.93 × 107 – 3.63 × 107 J/kg
  • blocked records — (storage)   Several records written as a contiguous block on magnetic tape so that they may be accessed in a single I/O operation. Blocking increases the amount of data that may be stored on a tape because there are fewer inter-block gaps. It requires that the tape drive or processor have a sufficiently large buffer to store the whole block.
  • blood corpuscle — one of the cells in the blood
  • blow one's cool — (of the wind or air) to be in motion.
  • blow one's cork — to lose one's temper; become enraged
  • boa constrictor — A boa constrictor is a large snake that kills animals by wrapping itself round their bodies and squeezing them to death. Boa constrictors are found mainly in South and Central America and the West Indies.
  • bone conduction — the transmission of sound vibrations to the internal ear through the cranial bones (opposed to air conduction).
  • book of account — a book to keep accounts in; ledger
  • borough council — a local government body elected by a borough
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • box the compass — to name the compass points in order
  • breakdown cover — insurance cover against breakdowns in a vehicle
  • british council — an organization founded (1934) to extend the influence of British culture and education throughout the world
  • british telecom — the popular name for British Telecommunications Group plc, the dominant fixed line telecommunications and broadband internet provider in the United Kingdom
  • bucket conveyor — a conveyor consisting of an endless chain with a series of buckets attached at regular intervals, used for moving ore, gravel, grain, or other bulk materials.
  • by all accounts — according to everyone
  • cache coherency — (storage)   (Or "cache consistency") /kash koh-heer'n-see/ The synchronisation of data in multiple caches such that reading a memory location via any cache will return the most recent data written to that location via any (other) cache. Some parallel processors do not cache accesses to shared memory to avoid the issue of cache coherency. If caches are used with shared memory then some system is required to detect when data in one processor's cache should be discarded or replaced because another processor has updated that memory location. Several such schemes have been devised.
  • cacodaemoniacal — Demonic; evil.
  • caldecott award — an annual award in the U.S. for an outstanding illustrated juvenile book.
  • call to account — to insist on explanation
  • calvin coolidge — Calvin, 1872–1933, 30th president of the U.S. 1923–29.
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • capital account — A country's capital account is the part of its balance of payments that is concerned with the movement of capital.
  • carcinosarcomas — Plural form of carcinosarcoma.
  • case conference — a meeting at which all the parties involved in a medical, legal, or social work case come together to discuss it
  • caustic alcohol — sodium ethylate.
  • cerebral cortex — the outermost layer of the cerebrum that is the locus of higher brain processes
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