9-letter words containing d, i, a, t
- litigated — Simple past tense and past participle of litigate.
- live data — 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it. One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program keys; this can be used to write live data that, when listed to the terminal, infects it with a security-breaking virus that is triggered the next time a hapless user strikes that key. For another, there are some well-known bugs in vi that allow certain texts to send arbitrary commands back to the machine when they are simply viewed. 2. In C, data that includes pointers to functions (executable code). 3. An object, such as a trampoline, that is constructed on the fly by a program and intended to be executed as code. 4. Actual real-world data, as opposed to "test data". For example, "I think I have the record deletion module finished." "Have you tried it out on live data?" This usage usually carries the connotation that live data is more fragile and must not be corrupted, or bad things will happen. So a more appropriate response to the above claim might be: "Well, make sure it works perfectly before we throw live data at it." The implication here is that record deletion is something pretty significant, and a haywire record-deletion module running amok on live data would probably cause great harm.
- lunitidal — pertaining to the part of the tidal movement dependent upon the moon.
- lustihead — lustiness
- magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- maidstone — a city in Kent, in SE England.
- maitre d' — maître d'hôtel (defs 1–3).
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- maledicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maledict.
- maltitude — (math) Any of the four line segments perpendicular to the sides of a cyclic quadrilateral and passing through the opposite side's midpoint.
- mandating — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
- mantispid — any neuropterous, mantislike insect of the family Mantispidae, the larvae of which are parasites in the nests of spiders or wasps.
- marinated — Simple past tense and past participle of marinate.
- mastoidal — Mastoid.
- matricide — the act of killing one's mother.
- mattified — Simple past tense and past participle of mattify.
- meat diet — a diet in which meat is predominant
- medalists — Plural form of medalist.
- medallist — a person to whom a medal has been awarded.
- mediately — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- mediation — action in mediating between parties, as to effect an agreement or reconciliation.
- mediatise — to annex (a principality) to another state, while allowing certain rights to its former sovereign.
- mediative — mediating; mediatory.
- mediatize — to annex (a principality) to another state, while allowing certain rights to its former sovereign.
- mediators — Plural form of mediator.
- mediatory — pertaining to mediation.
- mediatrix — a woman who mediates, especially between parties at variance.
- medicated — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- medicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of medicate.
- meditated — to engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.
- meditates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of meditate.
- meditator — to engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mendicant — begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
- mendicate — (ambitransitive) To beg.
- metallide — to provide (a metal or alloy) with a diffused coating of a metal or metalloid by electrolysis at high temperature in order to impart a particular surface property to the base metal.
- metalloid — a nonmetal that in combination with a metal forms an alloy.
- microdata — (statistics) data concerning individuals in a trial, survey etc.
- midianite — a member of an ancient desert people of northwest Arabia near the Gulf of Aqaba, believed to have descended from Midian.
- midstream — the middle of a stream.
- militated — Simple past tense and past participle of militate.
- miltiades — c540–488? b.c, Athenian general.
- mindstate — A state of mind.
- misadjust — to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms; adapt; accommodate: to adjust expenses to income.
- misdating — Present participle of misdate.
- misstated — Simple past tense and past participle of misstate.
- mitigated — to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
- mitnagged — a member of an Orthodox Jewish movement in central or eastern Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries that advocated an intellectual, legalistic approach to Judaism and opposed the emotional, mystical approach of the Hasidim. Compare Hasid (def 1).
- moldavite — a green tektite found in Bohemia.