14-letter words containing d, a, l, i, t
- bitmap display — (hardware) A computer output device where each pixel displayed on the monitor screen corresponds directly to one or more bits in the computer's video memory. Such a display can be updated extremely rapidly since changing a pixel involves only a single processor write to memory compared with a terminal or VDU connected via a serial line where the speed of the serial line limits the speed at which the display can be changed. Most modern personal computers and workstations have bitmap displays, allowing the efficient use of graphical user interfaces, interactive graphics and a choice of on-screen fonts. Some more expensive systems still delegate graphics operations to dedicated hardware such as graphics accelerators. The bitmap display might be traced back to the earliest days of computing when the Manchester University Mark I(?) computer, developed by F.C. Williams and T. Kilburn shortly after the Second World War. This used a storage tube as its working memory. Phosphor dots were used to store single bits of data which could be read by the user and interpreted as binary numbers.
- bladder ketmia — plant with pale yellow flowers
- bladder ketmie — flower-of-an-hour
- bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
- blind as a bat — having extremely poor eyesight
- blind staggers — the staggers
- blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
- blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
- blood relation — A blood relation or blood relative is someone who is related to you by birth rather than by marriage.
- body beautiful — a beautiful body
- brachydactylia — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
- brachydactylic — having abnormally short fingers or toes
- bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
- british dollar — any of several coins formerly issued by the British Empire for use in certain territories, as the Straits dollar or the Hong Kong dollar.
- broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
- building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
- bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
- canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- cardinal point — The cardinal points are the four main points of the compass, north, south, east, and west.
- cardinal tetra — a small, brilliantly colored red and blue characin fish, Paracheirodon axelrodi, native to tropical forest streams in Brazil and Colombia: a popular aquarium fish.
- cardinal trait — a basic and dominant characteristic, as greed or ambition, that, according to a theory developed by psychologist Gordon Allport (1936), controls the behavior of many people.
- cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
- cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
- cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
- chlorothiazide — a diuretic drug administered orally in the treatment of chronic heart and kidney disease and hypertension. Formula: C7H6ClN3O4S2
- chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
- circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
- clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
- closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
- co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
- coated vesicle — a clathrin-covered vesicle that forms from the closure of a coated pit, engulfing the ligand-receptor complex in endocytosis.
- cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
- coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
- collateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralise.
- collateralized — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralize.
- commodity loan — a loan made to producers of commodities, whereby the trader buys commodities on credit and returns the loan after the commodities are sold
- conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualized — Simple past tense and past participle of conceptualize.
- condensational — Of or pertaining to condensation.
- conditionality — imposing, containing, subject to, or depending on a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or allowed on certain terms: conditional acceptance.
- conduplication — (of a leaf in the bud) folded lengthwise with the upper face of the blade within.
- confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
- consolidations — Plural form of consolidation.
- contextualised — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- contextualized — Simple past tense and past participle of contextualize.
- contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.