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15-letter words containing si

  • basic anhydride — a compound formed by removing water from a more complex compound: an oxide of a nonmetal (acid anhydride) or a metal (basic anhydride) that forms an acid or a base, respectively, when united with water.
  • basic autocoder — Early system on IBM 7070. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • basic statement — protocol (def 6).
  • basidiomycetous — belonging or pertaining to the basidiomycetes.
  • belief revision — (artificial intelligence)   The area of theory change in which preservation of the information in the theory to be changed plays a key role. A fundamental issue in belief revision is how to decide what information to retract in order to maintain consistency, when the addition of a new belief to a theory would make it inconsistent. Usually, an ordering on the sentences of the theory is used to determine priorities among sentences, so that those with lower priority can be retracted. This ordering can be difficult to generate and maintain. The postulates of the AGM Theory for Belief Revision describe minimal properties a revision process should have.
  • beside the mark — not striking the point aimed at
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • biogasification — the conversion of organic matter into biogas.
  • bit on the side — an extramarital affair
  • boiled dressing — a cooked salad dressing thickened with egg yolks and often containing mustard.
  • bombing mission — a major bomb attack on a specific target or series of targets
  • brand extension — the practice of using a well-known brand name to promote new products or services in unrelated fields
  • bridge of sighs — a covered 16th-century bridge in Venice, between the Doges' Palace and the prisons, through which prisoners were formerly led to trial or execution
  • broca's aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • business casual — a style of casual clothing worn by businesspeople at work instead of more formal attire
  • business center — A business center is a room in a hotel with facilities such as computers and a fax machine, that allows guests to work while they are staying at the hotel.
  • business centre — a place providing office facilities and services
  • business double — a double made to increase the penalty points earned when a player believes the opponents cannot make their bid.
  • business ethics — moral constraints on trading practices
  • business office — the office where the financial transactions, bookkeeping, etc. for a firm or institution are carried on
  • business person — Business people are people who work in business.
  • business school — A business school is a school or college which teaches business subjects such as economics and management.
  • cartesian diver — a glass vessel partially filled with water and covered with an airtight membrane, containing a hollow object that is open at the bottom and contains just enough air to allow it to float. Pressing on the membrane compresses the air in the vessel and forces water into the object, causing it to sink; releasing the membrane causes it to rise.
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • cartesian plane — Usually, Cartesian coordinates. a member of a system of coordinates for locating a point on a plane (Cartesian plane) by its distance from each of two intersecting lines, or in space by its distance from each of three planes intersecting at a point.
  • cartesian space — ordinary two- or three-dimensional space.
  • cassini-huygens — a NASA-ESA spacecraft launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its moons; Cassini entered orbit around the planet in 2004 and released the Huygens probe which landed on Titan in 2005
  • cast aspersions — If you cast aspersions on someone or something, you suggest that they are not very good in some way.
  • catastrophising — Present participle of catastrophise.
  • charles simonyi — (person)   Microsoft programmer, most famously responsible for Hungarian Notation. Simonyi was born in Budapest in 1948, and for more than a decade was senior programmer at Microsoft in Redmond.
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chef de cuisine — chef (def 1).
  • chef de mission — the head of a diplomatic body
  • chief assistant — the most important or top-ranking assistant to an official
  • child-resistant — that resists being opened, tampered with, or damaged by a child; childproof: a child-resistant medicine cabinet.
  • cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
  • circumincession — the reciprocal existence within the three members of the Trinity
  • clare of assisi — Saint. 1194–1253, Italian nun; founder of the Franciscan Order of Poor Clares. Feast day: Aug 11
  • class inclusion — the relation between two classes in which all members of one class are included in the other, as in the proposition “All humans are animals.”.
  • class president — the student president of a school or college class
  • classical greek — the form of Greek used in classical literature, especially the literary Attic Greek of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.
  • classical latin — the form of Latin used in classical literature, especially the literary Latin of the 1st century b.c. and the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d.
  • classical logic — (logic)   Non-intuitionistic logic.
  • classical music — a style of music composed, esp at Vienna, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This period is marked by the establishment, esp by Haydn and Mozart, of sonata form
  • classifications — Plural form of classification.
  • cleptoparasites — Plural form of cleptoparasite.
  • closed position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
  • colonial siding — siding composed of boards with parallel faces laid horizontally so that the upper overlaps the one below.
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