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15-letter words containing a, i, c

  • dodecanoic acid — lauric acid.
  • dolichocephalic — long-headed; having a cephalic index of 75 and under.
  • domain calculus — (database)   A form of relational calculus in which scalar variables take values drawn from a given domain. Examples of the domain calculus are ILL, FQL, DEDUCE and the well known Query By Example (QBE). INGRES is a relational DBMS whose DML is based on the relational calculus.
  • domestic animal — an animal, as the horse or cat, that has been tamed and kept by humans as a work animal, food source, or pet, especially a member of those species that have, through selective breeding, become notably different from their wild ancestors.
  • dominical altar — a high altar.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • dramaturgically — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
  • drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
  • drift indicator — an instrument that indicates the amount of drift of an aircraft.
  • drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • duque de caxias — a city in SE Brazil: a suburb of Rio de Janeiro.
  • dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
  • dwarf poinciana — royal poinciana.
  • 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.
  • dysteleological — Of or pertaining to dysteleology.
  • 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
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • eastern sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in eastern and central Africa and including the Nilotic languages.
  • ecclesiasticism — ecclesiastical principles, practices, or spirit.
  • ecclesiological — Of or pertaining to ecclesiology.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • echocardiograph — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
  • eclaircissement — clarification; explanation.
  • eclipse plumage — the dull plumage developed in some brightly colored birds after the breeding season.
  • eclipse scotoma — a blind spot; a permanent or temporary area of depressed or absent vision caused by viewing the sun directly
  • econometrically — In terms of econometrics.
  • edict of nantes — a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
  • efficaciousness — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
  • efficient cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • 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
  • eight-bit clean — (software)   A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • electing a pope — (electronics, humour)   (From the smoke signals given out when the guys in funny hats choose a new Pope) Causing an integrated circuit or other electronic component to emit smoke by passing too much current through it. See magic smoke.
  • electric charge — Electric charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.
  • electric guitar — electrically-amplified guitar
  • electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
  • electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
  • electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
  • electrochemical — (chemistry) of, or relating to a chemical reaction brought about by electricity.
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodialytic — Relating to electrodialysis.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
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