11-letter words containing d, c, s
- glycolipids — Plural form of glycolipid.
- glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
- good graces — If you are in someone's good graces, they are pleased with you.
- grand-scale — of large proportion, extent, magnitude, etc.: grand-scale efforts; a grand-scale approach.
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- hand-stitch — to stitch or sew by hand.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
- hard cheese — an unpleasant, difficult, or adverse situation: It's hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days.
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
- hash coding — (programming, algorithm) (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
- head-strict — (theory) A head-strict function will not necessarily evaluate every cons cell of its (list) argument, but whenever it does evaluate a cons cell it will also evaluate the element in the head of that cell. An example of a head-strict function is beforeZero :: [Int] -> [Int] beforeZero [] = [] beforeZero (0:xs) = [] beforeZero (x:xs) = x : beforeZero xs which returns a list up to the first zero. This pattern of evaluation is important because it is common in functions which operate on a list of inputs. See also tail-strict, hyperstrict.
- headcheeses — Plural form of headcheese.
- headscarves — Plural form of headscarf.
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- hemstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of hemstitch.
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- hills cloud — a hypothetical dense, disc-shaped area within the Oort cloud
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hopscotched — Simple past tense and past participle of hopscotch.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- hpcode-plus — A descendant of HPcode with data types, developed to be an ANDF language.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hydrocorals — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hydroponics — the cultivation of plants by placing the roots in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil; soilless growth of plants. Compare aeroculture, geoponics (def 2).
- hydroscopes — Plural form of hydroscope.
- hydroscopic — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- hydrostatic — of or relating to hydrostatics.
- hypodermics — Plural form of hypodermic.
- ice-scoured — noting an area having surface features resulting from scouring by an advancing ice sheet during glaciation.
- ichthyopsid — relating to the class Ichthyopsida, which contains amphibians, fishes, and fish-like vertebrates
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- icosandrian — (of a plant) having at least twenty stamens
- icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
- immediacies — Plural form of immediacy.
- incandesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incandesce.
- incidentals — happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.
- incommodius — Misspelling of incommodious.
- incompassed — Simple past tense and past participle of incompass.