13-letter words containing cur
- american curl — a breed of slender cat with curled-back ears and a plumed tail
- amicus curiae — a person not directly engaged in a case who advises the court
- bathtub curve — Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time: initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it "tires out". See also burn-in period, infant mortality.
- black currant — the small, round, blackish, edible fruit of a widely cultivated shrub, Ribes nigrum, of the saxifrage family.
- bloodcurdling — terrifying; horrifying
- cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
- caustic curve — a curve formed by the intersection of a caustic surface with a plane
- chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- co-curricular — related but only complementary to the official curriculum, as a civic or service activity outside the classroom.
- co-occurrence — the fact of two things happening at the same time
- concurrencies — Plural form of concurrency.
- concurrent ml — (language) (CML) A concurrent extension of SML/NJ written by J. Reppy at Cornell University in 1990. CML supports dynamic thread creation and synchronous message passing on typed channels. Threads are implemented using first-class continuations. First-class synchronous operations allow users to tailor their synchronisation abstractions for their application. CML also supports both stream I/O and low-level I/O in an integrated fashion. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bugs).
- cross-current — A cross-current is a current in a river or sea that flows across another current.
- crosscurrents — Plural form of crosscurrent.
- cucurbit wilt — a disease of cucumbers and other plants of the gourd family, characterized by wilted leaves, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia tracheiphila.
- curb exchange — American Stock Exchange.
- curling irons — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
- curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
- curling tongs — a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls
- curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
- curly lettuce — a type of lettuce that has leaves with curled edges
- currant borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Ramosia tipuliformis, that bores into the stems of currants.
- currency bond — a bond payable in legal tender.
- currency rate — the rate of exchange of a particular currency against another
- currency unit — a unit of money, such as the pound, dollar, or euro, that is used in a particular currency
- current ratio — A current ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets by current liabilities.
- current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
- curve fitting — the determination of a curve that fits a specified set of points: The method of least squares is commonly used for curve fitting.
- curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
- cybersecurity — the state of being safe from electronic crime and the measures taken to achieve this
- data security — the protection of data stored on computers
- derived curve — a curve whose equation is the derivative of the equation of a given curve.
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
- excursionists — Plural form of excursionist.
- excursiveness — The quality of being discursive.
- fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
- final curtain — end of a theatre performance
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- glass curtain — a transparent or translucent curtain covering the interior of a window opening.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- h and d curve — characteristic curve.
- hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- hard currency — money that is backed by gold reserves and is readily convertible into foreign currencies.
- haskell curry — (person) Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
- incurableness — The state or condition of being incurable.
- incuriousness — The state of being incurious; indifference or apathy.
- intercurrence — intervening, as of time or events.
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