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13-letter words containing unc

  • luncheon club — (in Britain) an arrangement or organization for serving hot midday meals for a small charge to old people in clubs or daycentres
  • luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
  • luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
  • malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • memo function — (programming)   (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
  • metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
  • micropuncture — the puncture of a cell, renal tubule, etc., by a laser beam or micropipette
  • mispronounced — Said wrongly.
  • mispronounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mispronounce.
  • multifunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • nonfunctional — Not having any particular purpose or function.
  • nunc dimittis — (italics) the canticle beginning with the words of Simeon, in Luke 2:29–32, “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.”.
  • on the bounce — in succession; one after the other
  • one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
  • one-two punch — Also called one-two punch. Boxing. a left-hand jab immediately followed by a right cross.
  • onto function — Mathematics. a function from one set to a second set, the range of which is the entire second set.
  • open juncture — a transition between successive sounds marked by a break in articulatory continuity, as by a pause or the modification of a preceding or following sound, and often indicating a division between words; presence of juncture (opposed to close juncture). Also called plus juncture. Compare close juncture, juncture (def 7a), terminal juncture.
  • overpronounce — to pronounce (a word, syllable, etc.) in an exaggerated, affected, or excessively careful manner.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • plus juncture — open juncture.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • pronouncement — a formal or authoritative statement.
  • pronunciation — Rare. an act or instance of declaring publicly; pronouncement: It was but the latest pronunciation of the political double-standard uttered in the course of this scandal. Synonyms: declaration, assertion, statement; announcement, affirmation; proclamation, promulgation, dissemination.
  • punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
  • punctuational — punctuated equilibrium.
  • puncture vine — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
  • puncture weed — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
  • quincuncially — In a quincuncial fashion.
  • repunctuation — the act or process of punctuating differently or again
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
  • suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
  • the unco guid — narrow-minded, excessively religious, or self-righteous people
  • throw a punch — try to hit sb
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
  • trig function — Also called circular function. a function of an angle, as sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
  • uncalculating — not calculating or scheming; guileless
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
  • uncapitalized — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • uncaptivating — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
  • uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
  • uncategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • uncentralized — to draw to or gather about a center.
  • unceremonious — discourteously abrupt; hasty; rude: He made an unceremonious departure in the middle of my speech.
  • uncertainness — not definitely ascertainable or fixed, as in time of occurrence, number, dimensions, or quality.
  • unchallenging — not challenging or difficult; not providing a challenge; easy
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