9-letter words containing c, o, d, e
- formicide — A substance that kills ants.
- fossicked — Simple past tense and past participle of fossick.
- frolicked — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
- frondesce — To unfold leaves, as plants.
- gasconade — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- genocidal — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- genocider — One who commits genocide.
- genocides — Plural form of genocide.
- geodesics — Plural form of geodesic.
- geodetics — The scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, earth tides, and tectonic motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space.
- glucoside — any of an extensive group of compounds that yield glucose and some other substance or substances when treated with a dilute acid or decomposed by a ferment or enzyme.
- glycoside — any of the class of compounds that yield a sugar and an aglycon upon hydrolysis.
- goldcrest — a Eurasian kinglet, Regulus regulus, having a bright yellow patch on the top of the head.
- goodfaced — with a handsome face
- gottsched — Johann Christoph. 1700–66, German critic, dramatist, and translator
- gray code — (hardware) A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- hacendado — the owner of a hacienda.
- hack mode — (jargon) Engaged in hacking. A Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic). Ability to enter such concentration at will correlates strongly with wizardliness; it is one of the most important skills learned during larval stage. Sometimes amplified as "deep hack mode". Being yanked out of hack mode (see priority interrupt) may be experienced as a physical shock, and the sensation of being in hack mode is more than a little habituating. The intensity of this experience is probably by itself sufficient explanation for the existence of hackers, and explains why many resist being promoted out of positions where they can code. See also cyberspace. Some aspects of hackish etiquette will appear quite odd to an observer unaware of the high value placed on hack mode. For example, if someone appears at your door, it is perfectly okay to hold up a hand (without turning one's eyes away from the screen) to avoid being interrupted. One may read, type, and interact with the computer for quite some time before further acknowledging the other's presence (of course, he or she is reciprocally free to leave without a word). The understanding is that you might be in hack mode with a lot of delicate state in your head, and you dare not swap that context out until you have reached a good point to pause. See also juggling eggs.
- hammocked — Ensconced in a hammock.
- hard core — pornography: obscene
- hard-core — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardcover — a book bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material: Hardcovers are more durable than paperbacks.
- head cold — a form of the common cold characterized especially by nasal congestion and sneezing.
- headcanon — (fandom slang) Elements and interpretations of a fictional universe accepted by an individual fan, but not found within or supported by the official canon.
- headcloth — any cloth for covering the head, as a turban or wimple.
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
- helicoids — Plural form of helicoid.
- hexachord — a diatonic series of six tones having, in medieval music, a half step between the third and fourth tones and whole steps between the others.
- hodoscope — any device for tracing the path of a charged particle, esp a particle found in cosmic rays
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- homicides — Plural form of homicide.
- hydrocele — an accumulation of serous fluid, usually about the testis.
- iconicode — 1990-1992. Visual dataflow language, token-based with hierarchical, recursive and iterative constructs. Version: IDF with extensions for image processing.
- ideologic — of or relating to ideology.
- ideoscape — (according to w Arjun Appadurai) The global flow of ideologies.
- idiolects — Plural form of idiolect.
- incommode — to inconvenience or discomfort; disturb; trouble.
- incondite — ill-constructed; unpolished: incondite prose.
- incrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of incross.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- indolence — the quality or state of being indolent.
- indolency — (obsolete) The lack of pain; absence of pain.
- insectoid — Insect-like.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- invocated — invoke.
- iridocyte — a guanine-containing cell in the skin of fish and some cephalopods, giving these animals their iridescence
- lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.