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14-letter words containing a, d, p, t, e, c

  • accident prone — If you describe someone or something as accident prone, you mean that a lot of accidents or other unpleasant things happen to them.
  • accident-prone — tending to have more accidents or mishaps than the average person.
  • acid phosphate — superphosphate (def 1).
  • adoption curve — a curve on a graph plotting the number of people using a new product against the time from its initial release
  • adrenoreceptor — a receptor that binds with epinephrine, norepinephrine, or related compounds.
  • andrew project — (project)   A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at Carnegie Mellon University, named after Andrew Carnegie, an American philanthropist who provided money to establish CMU. See also Andrew File System, Andrew Message System, Andrew Toolkit, class.
  • appendectomies — Plural form of appendectomy.
  • appendicectomy — surgical removal of any appendage, esp the vermiform appendix
  • arctic redpoll — a finch, Carduelis hornemanni, of the family Fringillidae, which breeds in tundra birch forest
  • assisted place — a place at a private school reserved for a pupil from a family with a low income, with the fees paid by the government
  • atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
  • autopilot code — (jargon, humour)   Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • body corporate — a group of persons incorporated to carry out a specific enterprise
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
  • camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
  • case and paste — (programming)   (From "cut and paste") The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes. This usually results in gross violation of the fundamental programming tenet, Don't Repeat Yourself. Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using "case" statements. Leads to software bloat. In some circles of Emacs users this is called "programming by Meta-W", because Meta-W is the Emacs command for copying a block of text to a kill buffer in preparation to pasting it in elsewhere. The term is condescending, implying that the programmer is acting mindlessly rather than thinking carefully about what is required to integrate the code for two similar cases. At DEC, this is sometimes called "clone-and-hack" coding.
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
  • cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
  • chest expander — a device for strengthening the chest muscles, consisting of two handles attached to strong springs or elastic cords that the user pulls apart across the chest
  • chocolate drop — a small disc of chocolate
  • compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
  • computer-aided — done or improved by computer
  • conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • conceptualized — Simple past tense and past participle of conceptualize.
  • copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
  • copy and paste — to copy (information in a computer document) and put it somewhere else in the document
  • corporate bond — a bond issued by a corporation in order to increase its capital
  • coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
  • critical speed — Critical speed is the speed at which unwanted vibration happens when a vessel is rotating.
  • cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
  • dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
  • data processor — a computer that is capable of performing operations on data in order to extract information, reorder files, etc
  • dataparallel-c — (language, parallel)   C with parallel extensions by Hatcher and Quinn of the University of New Hampshire. Dataparallel-C was based on an early version of C* and runs on the Intel iPSC-2 and nCube.
  • decapacitating — Present participle of decapacitate.
  • deccan plateau — triangular tableland occupying most of the peninsula of India, between the Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats & south of the Narbada River
  • decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
  • decompensation — the inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease
  • delta particle — a very short-lived hyperon
  • depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
  • dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
  • dermatographic — relating to dermatography
  • despoticalness — the quality of being despotic

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