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15-letter words containing n, a, c, y

  • dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • defect analysis — (programming)   Using defects as data for continuous quality improvement. Defect analysis generally seeks to classify defects into categories and identify possible causes in order to direct process improvement efforts.
  • delaying action — a measure or measures taken to gain time, as when weaker military forces harass the advance of a superior enemy without coming to a pitched battle
  • delaying tactic — Delaying tactics are things that someone does in order to deliberately delay the start or progress of something.
  • demystification — to rid of mystery or obscurity; clarify: to demystify medical procedures.
  • demythification — the act of demythifying
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • distance medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards (402 meters), the second runs 880 yards (805 meters), the third runs 1320 yards (1207 meters), and the fourth runs 1760 yards (1609 meters).
  • dynamic binding — The property of object-oriented programming languages where the code executed to perform a given operation is determined at run time from the class of the operand(s) (the receiver of the message). There may be several different classes of objects which can receive a given message. An expression may denote an object which may have more than one possible class and that class can only be determined at run time. New classes may be created that can receive a particular message, without changing (or recompiling) the code which sends the message. An class may be created that can receive any set of existing messages. One important reason for having dynamic binding is that it provides a mechanism for selecting between alternatives which is arguably more robust than explicit selection by conditionals or pattern matching. When a new subclass is added, or an existing subclass changes, the necessary modifications are localised: you don't have incomplete conditionals and broken patterns scattered all over the program. See overloading.
  • dynamic pricing — the practice of offering goods at a price that changes according to the level of demand, the type of customer, the state of the weather, etc
  • dynamic routing — (networking)   (Or "adaptive routing") Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes.
  • dynamic scoping — dynamic scope
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
  • early christian — denoting or relating to the style of architecture that started in Italy in the 3rd century ad and spread through the Roman empire until the 5th century
  • econometrically — In terms of econometrics.
  • economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • electroanalyses — Plural form of electroanalysis.
  • electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • emergency brake — hand brake in car
  • encephalography — Any of various techniques for recording the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
  • encyclopaedical — Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
  • endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
  • entomologically — In terms of entomology.
  • epeirogenically — in the manner of epeirogeny
  • epicyclic train — a cluster of gears consisting of a central gearwheel with external teeth (the sun), a coaxial gearwheel of greater diameter with internal teeth (the annulus), and one or more planetary gears engaging with both of them to provide a large gear ratio in a compact space
  • eric conspiracy — (person, humour)   A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (of the "Allman style" described under indent style), Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP), Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site.
  • eric s. raymond — (person)   One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. E-mail: <[email protected]>
  • errand of mercy — a trip undertaken to help someone who is in trouble
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
  • factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
  • faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
  • false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
  • fetch and carry — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
  • 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.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • 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.
  • floating policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
  • flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • for a certainty — without doubt
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