13-letter words containing c, i, d, e, v
- disincentives — Plural form of disincentive.
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disrespective — (obsolete) Showing a lack of respect; disrespectful.
- distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
- divine comedy — a narrative epic poem (14th century) by Dante.
- divine office — office (def 12c).
- divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
- documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
- driving force — impetus
- duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
- economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
- escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- expert advice — advice given by someone who has studied a subject thoroughly or who is very skilled at a particular job
- face validity — the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
- field service — military service performed in the field
- french endive — endive (def 2).
- give evidence — testify in a court of law
- goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- ill-conceived — badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.
- impredicative — (of a definition) given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined, as having all the properties of a great general where one of the properties as ascribed must be that property itself
- in advance of — prior to
- indistinctive — without distinctive characteristics.
- ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
- medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- mobile device — a portable, wireless computing device that is small enough to be used while held in the hand; a handheld: a large selection of smartphones, PDAs, and other mobile devices.
- mundificative — a cleansing medicine or preparation
- non-conducive — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
- non-deceptive — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- non-deductive — based on deduction from accepted premises, as in deductive argument; deductive reasoning.
- non-defective — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
- non-inductive — not inductive: a noninductive resistance.
- nonconductive — having the property or capability of conducting.
- noncultivated — relating to natural resources that are not under institutional or managed cultivation
- nondiscursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- nonproductive — not productive; unproductive.
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- output device — (hardware) Electronic or electromechanical equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images, sounds or other media to a display screen, printer, loudspeaker or storage device. Most modern storage devices such as disk drives and magnetic tape drives act as both input and output devices, others such as CD-ROM are input only.
- over-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- overcivilized — excessively civilized
- overcommitted — to commit more than is feasible, desirable, or necessary.
- overconfident — too confident.
- overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
- overdominance — excessive dominance
- overeducation — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- packet driver — (networking) IBM PC local area network software that divides data into packets which it routes to the network. It also handles incoming data, reassembling the packets so that application programs can read the data as a continuous stream. Packet drivers provide a simple, common programming interface that allows multiple applications to share a network interface at the data link layer. Packet drivers demultiplex incoming packets among the applications by using the network media's standard packet type or service access point field(s). The packet driver provides calls to initiate access to a specific packet type, to end access to it, to send a packet, to get statistics on the network interface and to get information about the interface. Protocol implementations that use the packet driver can coexist and can make use of one another's services, whereas multiple applications which do not use the driver do not coexist on one machine properly. Through use of the packet driver, a user could run TCP/IP, XNS and a proprietary protocol implementation such as DECnet, Banyan's, LifeNet's, Novell's or 3Com's without the difficulties associated with pre-empting the network interface. Applications which use the packet driver can also run on new network hardware of the same class without being modified; only a new packet driver need be supplied. There are several levels of packet driver. The first is the basic packet driver, which provides minimal functionality but should be simple to implement and which uses very few host resources. The basic driver provides operations to broadcast and receive packets. The second driver is the extended packet driver, which is a superset of the basic driver. The extended driver supports less commonly used functions of the network interface such as multicast, and also gathers statistics on use of the interface and makes these available to the application. The third level, the high-performance functions, support performance improvements and tuning.