11-letter words containing a, n, t, i, c, g
- nondogmatic — not related to dogma, esp in religion
- nongalactic — Not galactic.
- nonmagnetic — of or relating to a magnet or magnetism.
- nonmatching — not matching: a nonmatching set of furniture.
- nonteaching — the act or profession of a person who teaches.
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- officiating — Present participle of officiate Serving in an official capacity or serving as an official at a contest.
- ontological — of or relating to ontology, the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such; metaphysical: Some of the U.S. founders held an ontological belief in natural rights.
- opening act — the first act at a concert, etc, esp before a main act
- oscillating — Moving in a repeated back-and-forth motion.
- ostracising — Present participle of ostracise.
- ostracizing — Simple past tense and past participle of ostracize.
- outclassing — Present participle of outclass.
- outmatching — Present participle of outmatch.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- overcasting — Meteorology. the condition of the sky when more than 95 percent covered by clouds.
- overcoating — a coat worn over the ordinary indoor clothing, as in cold weather.
- pacesetting — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
- packing nut — a nut that serves to condense packing and so to tighten its seal.
- parachuting — descent using parachute
- paragenetic — the origin of minerals or mineral deposits in contact so as to affect one another's formation.
- pencil gate — any of a large number of narrow gates used for rapid distribution of metal in large castings.
- pharyngitic — relating to the medical condition of pharyngitis that is characterized by pain and swelling of the pharynx
- pintsch gas — gas with high illuminating power made from shale oil or petroleum, used in buoys, lighthouses, and railroad cars.
- placatingly — in a placating manner
- play-acting — Play-acting is behaviour where someone pretends to have attitudes or feelings that they do not really have.
- ray casting — (graphics) A simplified form of ray tracing. A ray is fired from each pixel in the view plane, and information is accumulated from all the voxels in the volume data it intersects. Each voxel is first given an associated colour and opacity. The ray is sampled at a fixed number of evenly spaced locations and the colour and opacity are trilinearly interpolated from the eight nearest voxels. These are then composed linearly back to front to give a single colour for the pixel. Ray casting was invented by John Carmack for the game Wolfenstein 3D. It is faster and lower quality than ray tracing, and is ideal for interactive applications. It parallelises well, although random access is needed to the voxels.
- ray tracing — (graphics) A technique used in computer graphics to create realistic images by calculating the paths taken by rays of light entering the observer's eye at different angles. The paths are traced backward from the viewpoint, through a point (a pixel) in the image plane until they hit some object in the scene or go off to infinity. Objects are modelled as collections of abutting surfaces which may be rectangles, triangles, or more complicated shapes such as 3D splines. The optical properties of different surfaces (colour, reflectance, transmitance, refraction, texture) also affect how it will contribute to the colour and brightness of the ray. The position, colour, and brightness of light sources, including ambient lighting, is also taken into account. Ray tracing is an ideal application for parallel processing since there are many pixels, each of whose values is independent and can thus be calculated in parallel. Compare: radiosity.
- recarpeting — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- refactoring — (object-oriented, programming) Improving a computer program by reorganising its internal structure without altering its external behaviour. When software developers add new features to a program, the code degrades because the original program was not designed with the extra features in mind. This problem could be solved by either rewriting the existing code or working around the problems which arise when adding the new features. Redesigning a program is extra work, but not doing so would create a program which is more complicated than it needs to be. Refactoring is a collection of techniques which have been designed to provide an alternative to the two situations mentioned above. The techniques enable programmers to restructure code so that the design of a program is clearer. It also allows programmers to extract reusable components, streamline a program, and make additions to the program easier to implement. Refactoring is usually done by renaming methods, moving fields from one class to another, and moving code into a separate method. Although it is done using small and simple steps, refactoring a program will vastly improve its design and structure, making it easier to maintain and leading to more robust code.
- rusticating — to go to the country.
- sanctioning — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- satisficing — the act of satisficing
- scambaiting — the practice of pretending to fall for fraudulent online schemes in order to waste the time of the perpetrators
- scatterling — a person with no fixed home; a wanderer; a vagabond
- self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
- significant — important; of consequence.
- significate — something signified
- singletrack — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- slot racing — the activity of racing slot cars.
- slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
- snatchingly — in a snatching manner
- somatogenic — developing from somatic cells.
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- stepdancing — a dance emphasizing footwork or certain steps instead of other bodily gestures or movement
- stocktaking — the examination or counting over of materials or goods on hand, as in a stockroom or store.
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- syntagmatic — pertaining to a relationship among linguistic elements that occur sequentially in the chain of speech or writing, as the relationship between the sun and is shining or the and sun in the sentence The sun is shining.
- tap dancing — dancing with clicking shoes
- teratogenic — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.