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14-letter words containing a, i, c

  • audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
  • audio-cassette — a cassette of tape on which sound only is recorded
  • audiocassettes — Plural form of audiocassette.
  • auditory canal — the narrow passageway from the outer ear to the eardrum.
  • auspiciousness — The state or quality of being auspicious or successful.
  • austro-asiatic — a hypothetical phylum or superfamily of languages consisting of Mon-Khmer and certain other languages of India and South-East Asia. Links with Malayo-Polynesian have also been suggested
  • authenticating — to establish as genuine.
  • authentication — to establish as genuine.
  • autoactivation — (biochemistry) autocatalysis.
  • autobiographic — marked by or dealing with one's own experiences or life history; of or in the manner of an autobiography: autobiographical material; an autobiographical novel.
  • autocollimator — an instrument combining the functions of a telescope and collimator, for detecting and measuring very small deviations in a beam of light.
  • autoconfiscate — (software, jargon)   A term coined by Noah Friedman meaning to set up or modify a source-code distribution so that it configures and builds using the GNU project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite.
  • autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
  • autocratically — In an autocratic manner.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • automatic door — a self-opening door
  • autopilot code — (jargon, humour)   Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
  • autoreactivity — (immunology) The condition of being autoreactive.
  • avalanche lily — a wildflower (Erythronium montanum) of the lily family, native to the mountain meadows of Washington and Oregon and blooming in June among the melting snowbanks
  • avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
  • avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
  • azimuth circle — a device for measuring azimuths, consisting of a graduated ring equipped with a sighting vane on each side, which fits concentrically over a compass.
  • back formation — the invention of a new word on the assumption that a familiar word is derived from it. The verbs edit and burgle were so created from editor and burglar
  • back to basics — If you talk about getting back to basics, you are suggesting that people have become too concerned with complicated details or new theories, and that they should concentrate on simple, important ideas or activities.
  • back-formation — the analogical creation of one word from another word that appears to be a derived or inflected form of the first by dropping the apparent affix or by modification.
  • back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
  • back-to-basics — stressing simplicity and adherence to fundamental principles: The movement suggests a back-to-basics approach to living for those whose lives have become complicated.
  • backbreakingly — In a backbreaking manner.
  • backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).
  • backing singer — a singer providing a vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
  • backing vocals — a vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
  • backscattering — the scattering of rays or particles at angles to the original direction of motion of greater than 90°
  • backscratching — a long-handled device for scratching one's own back.
  • backside cache — (hardware, processor)   An implementation of secondary cache memory that allows it to be directly accessed by the CPU. Backside cache is used by Apple Computers, Inc. in their PowerPC G3 processor. Previous PowerPC processors used the system bus to access both secondary cache and main memory. In the PowerPC G3 a dedicated bus handles only CPU/cache transactions. This bus can operate faster than the system bus thus improving the overall performance of the processor. The term apparently derives from the relocation of the secondary cache from the motherboard to the processor card itself, i.e. on the backside of the processor card.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • backup pumpkin — pumpkin
  • bacteriologist — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
  • bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
  • bacteriostasis — inhibition of the growth and reproduction of bacteria, esp by the action of a chemical agent
  • bacteriostatic — the prevention of the further growth of bacteria.
  • bactrian camel — a two-humped camel, Camelus bactrianus, used as a beast of burden in the cold deserts of central Asia
  • balance bridge — a bascule bridge
  • balance spring — hairspring.
  • balance weight — a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft
  • ball and chain — (formerly) a heavy iron ball attached to a chain and fastened to a prisoner
  • ball cartridge — a cartridge containing a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder
  • ball indicator — a flight instrument that measures the angle of roll about an aircraft's horizontal axis, thereby indicating whether or not the aircraft is skidding or slipping.
  • ball-and-chain — a heavy iron ball fastened by a chain to a prisoner's leg.
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