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14-letter words containing d, a, n, e, r, i

  • overland trail — any of various routes traveled by settlers from the Missouri River to Oregon and California beginning in the 1840s.
  • overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
  • overmodulation — excessive amplitude modulation, resulting in distortion of a signal.
  • painted desert — a region in N central Arizona, E of the Colorado River: many-colored rock surfaces.
  • painted turtle — a freshwater turtle, Chrysemys picta, common in the U.S., having bright yellow markings on the head and neck and red markings on the margin of the carapace.
  • panic disorder — a disorder in which inappropriate, intense apprehension and physical symptoms of fear occur so frequently as to produce significant impairment.
  • paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
  • para-toluidine — a white, flaky, lustrous, very slightly water-soluble solid, C 7 H 9 N, the para isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes, in organic synthesis, and as a reagent in tests for nitrite, lignin, and phloroglucinol.
  • parcel gilding — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
  • passenger side — the side of a car which is not the driver's side
  • pedestrianized — A pedestrianized area has been made into an area that is intended for pedestrians, not vehicles.
  • pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
  • perineal gland — one of a pair of glands that are situated near the anus in some mammals and secrete an odorous substance
  • peritonealized — to cover with peritoneum.
  • persian blinds — persiennes
  • piedras negras — a city in N Mexico, on the Rio Grande.
  • pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
  • pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
  • poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • ponderosa pine — Also called western yellow pine. a large pine, Pinus ponderosa, of western North America, having yellowish-brown bark: the state tree of Montana.
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • precision-made — made to precise specifications
  • predesignation — to designate beforehand.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • predestinarian — of or relating to predestination.
  • predestination — an act of predestinating or predestining.
  • predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
  • predeterminate — determined beforehand; predetermined.
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
  • prepared piano — a grand piano that has been altered for some modern compositions by having various objects attached to its strings to change the sound and pitch, and performance on which typically involves playing the keys, plucking the strings, slapping the body of the instrument, and slamming the keyboard lid.
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • pride-of-india — chinaberry (sense 1)
  • prime meridian — the meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.
  • printed matter — any of various kinds of printed material that qualifies for a special postal rate.
  • procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
  • procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
  • propenoic acid — systematic name of acrylic acid
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • quadragenarian — 40 years of age.
  • quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
  • quarter window — (on a car) a small triangular side window with hinges that can be opened for extra ventilation
  • quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
  • race condition — Anomalous behavior due to unexpected critical dependence on the relative timing of events. For example, if one process writes to a file while another is reading from the same location then the data read may be the old contents, the new contents or some mixture of the two depending on the relative timing of the read and write operations. A common remedy in this kind of race condition is file locking; a more cumbersome remedy is to reorganize the system such that a certain processes (running a daemon or the like) is the only process that has access to the file, and all other processes that need to access the data in that file do so only via interprocess communication with that one process. As an example of a more subtle kind of race condition, consider a distributed chat network like IRC, where a user is granted channel-operator privileges in any channel he starts. If two users on different servers, on different ends of the same network, try to start the same-named channel at the same time, each user's respective server will grant channel-operator privileges to each user, since neither will yet have received the other's signal that that channel has been started. In this case of a race condition, the "shared resource" is the conception of the state of the network (what channels exist, as well as what users started them and therefore have what privileges), which each server is free to change as long as it signals the other servers on the network about the changes so that they can update their conception of the state of the network. However, the latency across the network makes possible the kind of race condition described. In this case, heading off race conditions by imposing a form of control over access to the shared resource -- say, appointing one server to be in charge of who holds what privileges -- would mean turning the distributed network into a centralized one (at least for that one part of the network operation). Where this is not acceptable, the more pragmatic solution is to have the system recognize when a race condition has occurred and to repair the ill effects. Race conditions also affect electronic circuits where the value output by a logic gate depends on the exact timing of two or more input signals. For example, consider a two input AND gate fed with a logic signal X on input A and its negation, NOT X, on input B. In theory, the output (X AND NOT X) should never be high. However, if changes in the value of X take longer to propagate to input B than to input A then when X changes from false to true, there will be a brief period during which both inputs are true, and so the gate's output will also be true. If this output is fed to an edge-sensitive component such as a counter or flip-flop then the temporary effect ("glitch") will become permanent.
  • radiant energy — energy transmitted in wave motion, especially electromagnetic wave motion.
  • radiant heater — a heater that heats a building by radiant heat emitted from panels containing electrical conductors, hot water, etc
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