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14-letter words containing d, e, a, c, t, i

  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • pentanoic acid — colourless liquid carboxylic acid
  • periodic table — a table illustrating the periodic system, in which the chemical elements, formerly arranged in the order of their atomic weights and now according to their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups.
  • photoduplicate — photocopy.
  • picture spread — an act or instance of spreading: With a spread of her arms the actress acknowledged the applause.
  • pitched battle — a battle in which the orderly arrangement of armed forces and the location have been predetermined.
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • pneumatic duct — the duct joining the air bladder and alimentary canal of a physostomous fish.
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • pre-accredited — to ascribe or attribute to (usually followed by with): He was accredited with having said it.
  • 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.
  • predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
  • procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • propaedeutical — relating to preliminary instruction; introductory
  • pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
  • quadruplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quadruplicate.
  • quadruplicates — Plural form of quadruplicate.
  • quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
  • quitclaim deed — a deed that conveys to the grantee only such interests in property as the grantor may have, the grantee assuming responsibility for any claims brought against the property.
  • 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.
  • radio cassette — A radio cassette is a radio and a cassette player together in a single machine.
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
  • radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
  • rationalized c — (language)   (RatC, after "RATFOR") A version of Ron Cain's original Small-C compiler.
  • reading notice — a short advertisement placed at the bottom of a column, as on the front page of a newspaper, and often set in the same print as other matter.
  • readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
  • recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
  • recommendation — an act of recommending.
  • recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
  • reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • record cabinet — a piece of furniture like a cupboard, designed to hold or display vinyl records stacked on their side
  • recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
  • reindoctrinate — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
  • res adjudicata — res judicata.
  • richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • richard trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
  • ride at anchor — to be anchored
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
  • saint benedict — Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
  • sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
  • scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • screen trading — a form of trading on a market or exchange in which the visual display unit of a computer replaces personal contact as in floor trading
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
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