16-letter words containing nc
- buoyancy chamber — an enclosed section of a canoe, float, ship or other object that contains air, foam, or another buoyant substance in order to help maintain buoyancy
- caducibranchiate — (of many amphibians, such as frogs) having gills during one stage of the life cycle only
- cameo appearance — a single and often brief dramatic scene played by a well-known actor or actress in a film or television play
- cancellation fee — A cancellation fee is a sum of money you must pay if you cancel a hotel reservation after the cancellation deadline.
- cancellation law — a mathematical rule pertaining to certain algebraic structures, as an integral domain or a field, that allows cancellation of a nonzero common factor of two equivalent quantities.
- capital sentence — the punishment of death for a crime
- captive audience — a group of people who are unable by circumstances to avoid speeches, advertisements, etc
- careers guidance — advice and information about careers that helps individuals, esp young people, decide on a career and also teaches them how to pursue their chosen career
- carnot principle — the principle that no heat engine can be more efficient than one operating on a Carnot cycle of reversible changes
- central tendency — the tendency of the values of a random variable to cluster around the mean, median, and mode
- chain-link fence — a type of fence made of a mesh woven from steel wire
- chance one's arm — to attempt to do something although the chance of success may be slight
- chancellorsville — hamlet in NE Va. (now called Chancellor): site of a Civil War battle (May, 1863) won by Confederate forces
- clearance volume — The clearance volume is the volume remaining above the piston of an engine when it reaches top dead center.
- clearance-papers — the act of clearing.
- coherence theory — the theory of truth that every true statement, insofar as it is true, describes its subject in the totality of its relationship with all other things.
- command guidance — a method of controlling a missile during flight by transmitting information to it
- complex sentence — a sentence containing at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
- computer science — the study of computers and their application
- concatenated key — compound key
- concert promoter — an organizer of concerts and concert tours
- concertina crash — a collision in which vehicle after vehicle hits the one ahead in a sequence of events triggered by the first car crash
- concertina table — an extensible table having a hinged double top falling onto a hinged frame that unfolds like an accordion when pulled out.
- concession stand — a stall where food, drinks, or other items are sold at a theatre or other venue
- conciliatoriness — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
- concurrent clean — (language) An alternative name for Clean 1.0.
- conference table — a large table, often rectangular, around which a number of people may be seated, as when holding a conference
- confidence level — a measure of the reliability of a result. A confidence level of 95 per cent or 0.95 means that there is a probability of at least 95 per cent that the result is reliable
- confidence trick — A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money.
- conscience money — money paid voluntarily to compensate for dishonesty, esp money paid voluntarily for taxes formerly evaded
- contingency fund — a sum of money allocated for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
- contingency plan — a plan to be carried out if a more likely or desired outcome does not happen
- convenience food — Convenience food is frozen, dried, or canned food that can be heated and prepared very quickly and easily.
- convergence zone — a zone where tectonic plates collide, typified by earthquakes, mountain formation, and volcanic activity
- council of state — a council that deliberates on high-level policies of a government.
- council of trent — the council of the Roman Catholic Church that met between 1545 and 1563 at Trent in S Tyrol. Reacting against the Protestants, it reaffirmed traditional Catholic beliefs and formulated the ideals of the Counter-Reformation
- counter-instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- counter-tendency — a natural or prevailing disposition to move, proceed, or act in some direction or toward some point, end, or result: the tendency of falling bodies toward the earth.
- counter-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
- counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
- court appearance — the appearance of an accused person before a court
- creation science — teaching and research based upon the belief that the biblical account of the creation of the world is scientific fact
- criminal offence — an action which is punishable under the law
- cross-resistance — immunologic resistance to the pathogenic effects of a microorganism because of previous exposure to another species or type having cross-reactive antigens.
- crown and anchor — a game played with dice marked with crowns and anchors
- currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
- curried function — (mathematics, programming) A function of N arguments that is considered as a function of one argument which returns another function of N-1 arguments. E.g. in Haskell we can define: average :: Int -> (Int -> Int) (The parentheses are optional). A partial application of average, to one Int, e.g. (average 4), returns a function of type (Int -> Int) which averages its argument with 4. In uncurried languages a function must always be applied to all its arguments but a partial application can be represented using a lambda abstraction: \ x -> average(4,x) Currying is necessary if full laziness is to be applied to functional sub-expressions. It was named after the logician Haskell Curry but the 19th-century logician, Gottlob Frege was the first to propose it and it was first referred to in ["Uber die Bausteine der mathematischen Logik", M. Schoenfinkel, Mathematische Annalen. Vol 92 (1924)]. Stefan Kahrs <[email protected]> reported hearing somebody in Germany trying to introduce "scho"nen" for currying and "finkeln" for "uncurrying". The verb "scho"nen" means "to beautify"; "finkeln" isn't a German word, but it suggests "to fiddle".
- cutoff frequency — a frequency level above or below which a device fails to respond or operate efficiently
- darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution