11-letter words containing a, n, d, f, o
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- paraffinoid — resembling a paraffin.
- passo fundo — a city in S Brazil.
- radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
- roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
- round-faced — having a face that is round.
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- son of adam — a man: He had all the weaknesses to which a son of Adam is heir.
- standoffish — somewhat aloof or reserved; cold and unfriendly.
- stone-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
- transformed — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- uncared for — If you describe people or animals as uncared for, you mean that they have not been looked after properly and as a result are hungry, dirty, or ill.
- uncared-for — untended; neglected; unkempt: The garden had an uncared-for look.
- unfashioned — not fashioned or made; not formed
- unflavoured — not flavoured
- unformatted — Computers. pertaining to a disk that has not been electronically prepared to receive files or other text; blank: You cannot save files on an unformatted disk.
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.