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15-letter words containing nc

  • distance runner — a participant in distance races.
  • distinctiveness — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • double concerto — a concerto for two solo instruments
  • driving licence — A driving licence is a card showing that you are qualified to drive because you have passed a driving test.
  • dwarf poinciana — royal poinciana.
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • editio princeps — first edition.
  • electropuncture — a therapy in which a small electric current is passed through the body via electrodes placed on the skin
  • emancipationist — An advocate of the emancipation of slaves.
  • emergency brake — hand brake in car
  • emergency force — a group of soldiers whose job it is to respond to emergencies: for example, to keep order, or to deliver food and medical supplies in a natural disaster
  • encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
  • encephalography — Any of various techniques for recording the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
  • encephalopathic — Relating to encephalopathy.
  • encounter group — a group of people who meet in order to develop self-awareness and mutual understanding by openly expressing their feelings, by confrontation, physical contact, etc
  • encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
  • encyclopedicity — The quality or state of being encyclopedic.
  • enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
  • entrance permit — a permit issued by the government of a country allowing nationals of other countries to enter
  • entrance ticket — a ticket allowing the bearer to go into a place, such as a museum, monument, etc
  • escape sequence — (character)   (Or "escape code") A series of characters starting with the escape character (ASCII 27). Escape sequences are often used to control display devices such as VDUs. An escape sequence might change the colour of subsequent text, reassign keys on the keyboard, change printer settings or reposition the cursor. The escape sequences of the DEC vt100 video terminal have become a de facto standard for this purpose. The term is also used for any sequence of characters that temporarily suspends normal processing of a stream of characters to perform some special function. For example, the Hayes modem uses the sequence "+++" to escape to command mode in which characters are interpreted as commands to the modem itself rather than as data to pass through.
  • existence proof — non-constructive proof
  • extreme unction — Catholicism: last rites
  • facile princeps — an obvious leader
  • false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
  • false pretences — fraud, deception
  • fanconi anaemia — a rare genetic disorder that can cause bone marrow failure, leukaemia, and tumours
  • fault tolerance — (architecture)   1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. The number of faults a system or component can withstand before normal operation is impaired.
  • fencepost error — 1. (Rarely "lamp-post error") A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops. From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?" (Either 9 or 11 is a better answer than the obvious 10). For example, suppose you have a long list or array of items, and want to process items m through n; how many items are there? The obvious answer is n - m, but that is off by one; the right answer is n - m + 1. The "obvious" formula exhibits a fencepost error. See also zeroth and note that not all off-by-one errors are fencepost errors. The game of Musical Chairs involves a catastrophic off-by-one error where N people try to sit in N - 1 chairs, but it's not a fencepost error. Fencepost errors come from counting things rather than the spaces between them, or vice versa, or by neglecting to consider whether one should count one or both ends of a row. 2. (Rare) An error induced by unexpected regularities in input values, which can (for instance) completely thwart a theoretically efficient binary tree or hash coding implementation. The error here involves the difference between expected and worst case behaviours of an algorithm.
  • field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
  • fighting chance — a possibility of success following a struggle.
  • fighting french — Free French.
  • filemaker, inc. — (company)   The company that distributes the FileMaker database. FileMaker, Inc. was previously known as Claris and was renamed after a restructuring in January 1998.
  • finance company — an institution engaged in such specialized forms of financing as purchasing accounts receivable, extending credit to retailers and manufacturers, discounting installment contracts, and granting loans with goods as security.
  • fire resistance — the amount of resistance of a material or construction to fire.
  • first principle — any axiom, law, or abstraction assumed and regarded as representing the highest possible degree of generalization.
  • flavor enhancer — a substance added to food in order to enhance or intensify its flavor: Salt is a common flavor enhancer.
  • fleet insurance — Fleet insurance is a type of insurance contract that applies to a number of vehicles.
  • flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • florence fennel — a variety of fennel, Foeniculum vulgare azoricum, having enlarged leaf bases, which are blanched and used especially as an ingredient in salads.
  • flowers of zinc — a white or yellowish-white, amorphous, odorless, water-insoluble powder, ZnO, used chiefly as a paint pigment, in cosmetics, dental cements, matches, white printing inks, and opaque glass, and in medicine in the treatment of skin conditions.
  • formation dance — any dance in which a number of couples form a certain arrangement, such as two facing lines or a circle, and perform a series of figures within or based on that arrangement
  • fragrance strip — a folded, usually sealed strip on a page or card, impregnated with fragrance that is released when pulled or torn open: The magazine is full of fragrance strips in the advertisements.
  • francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • franco-american — an American of French or French-Canadian descent.
  • french canadian — a descendant of the early French colonists of Canada.
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