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15-letter words that end in or

  • adhesive factor — the ratio of the force that can be exerted on driving wheels with full traction to the weight on the driving wheels, usually expressed as a percentage.
  • alpine accentor — a small bird of the sparrow family, Prunella collaris, found especially in mountain regions of S Europe and Asia
  • analogous color — Art. any one of a group of related colors that are near each other on the color wheel, a circular chart that shows gradations of color: Red, orange, and yellow are analogous colors. Compare complementary color (def 1a).
  • animal behavior — behavior (def 2).
  • answer the door — When you answer the door, you go and open the door because a visitor has knocked on it or rung the bell.
  • anteroposterior — Relating to or directed toward both front and back.
  • array processor — (processor)   (Or "vector processor") A computer, or extension to its arithmetic unit, that is capable of performing simultaneous computations on elements of an array or table of data in some number of dimensions. The IBM AltiVec (the "Velocity Engine" used in the Apple G4 computers) is a vector processor. Common uses for array processors include analysis of fluid dynamics and rotation of 3d objects, as well as data retrieval, in which elements of a database are scanned simultaneously. Array processors are very rare now (1998).
  • at death's door — If you say that someone is at death's door, you mean they are very ill indeed and likely to die.
  • auxiliary rotor — the tail rotor of a helicopter, used for directional and rotary control
  • barefoot doctor — (esp in developing countries) a worker trained as a medical auxiliary in a rural area who dispenses medicine, gives first aid, assists at childbirth, etc
  • be spoiling for — to have an aggressive desire for (a fight, etc)
  • bevelled mirror — a mirror with a bevelled edge
  • billiard parlor — poolroom (def 1).
  • boa constrictor — A boa constrictor is a large snake that kills animals by wrapping itself round their bodies and squeezing them to death. Boa constrictors are found mainly in South and Central America and the West Indies.
  • breeder reactor — a type of nuclear reactor that produces more fissionable material than it consumes
  • bucket conveyor — a conveyor consisting of an endless chain with a series of buckets attached at regular intervals, used for moving ore, gravel, grain, or other bulk materials.
  • bucket elevator — a chain of buckets for raising liquids or materials to a higher level
  • camera operator — a person who operates a film or television camera
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • cast around for — If you cast around for something or cast about for it, you try to find it or think of it.
  • character actor — A character actor is an actor who specializes in playing unusual or eccentric people.
  • check protector — checkwriter.
  • chelsea tractor — a four-by-four
  • chest protector — a protective pad worn over the chest by a catcher or umpire to shield the body from foul tips.
  • chief inspector — an officer of high rank in British police forces
  • circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
  • climb indicator — an instrument that shows the rate of ascent or descent of an aircraft, operating on a differential pressure principle.
  • clotting factor — any one of a group of substances, including factor VIII, the presence of which in the blood is essential for blood clotting to occur
  • courting mirror — a small mirror of c1800 having a border and cresting of glass painted with leaves and flowers in imitation of a Chinese style.
  • crawler tractor — a tractor with a continuous roller belt over cogged wheels on each side, for moving over rough or muddy ground
  • crawling horror — (jargon)   Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • drift indicator — an instrument that indicates the amount of drift of an aircraft.
  • electroreceptor — A cell or organ responsible for electroreception.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • feelgood factor — When journalists refer to the feelgood factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
  • 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.
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
  • frigidoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by cold.
  • gold prospector — a person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold
  • grace-and-favor — noting a residence owned by a noble or sovereign and bestowed by him or her upon some person for that person's lifetime.
  • great attractor — a vast concentration of matter whose gravitational pull alters the direction and speed of the Milky Way and other galaxies as they spread apart in the expanding universe posited by the big bang theory.
  • group separator — (character)   (GS) ASCII character 29.
  • have an eye for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
  • hospital doctor — a hospital doctor works in a hospital, rather than as a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hydraulic motor — a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
  • immunomodulator — a substance that affects the functioning of the immune system
  • induction motor — a type of electric motor in which alternating current from a power source is fed through a primary winding and induces a current in a secondary winding, with the parts arranged so that the resulting magnetic field causes a movable rotor to rotate with respect to a fixed stator.

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