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14-letter words containing d, i, p

  • birthday party — a party to celebrate someone's birthday
  • 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.
  • blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • blood grouping — the ascertainment of a person's blood group
  • blood spinning — a medical treatment, a use for which is the healing of sports-related injuries, that involves removing the platelet cells from the patient’s blood sample then injecting them into the injured area in order to speed recovery
  • boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
  • bodice-ripping — A bodice-ripping film or novel is one which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes. You use this word especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
  • border dispute — a disagreement between countries about where the border between them should be drawn
  • brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • bridge passage — bridge1 (def 7).
  • brood parasite — a young bird hatched and reared by birds of a different species as a result of brood parasitism.
  • building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
  • burn-in period — 1.   (testing)   A factory soak test intended to increase the chance that components that fail early due to infant mortality will fail before the system leaves the factory. 2.   (jargon)   When one is so intensely involved in a new project that one forgets basic needs such as food, drink and sleep. Excessive burn-in can lead to burn-out. See hack mode, larval stage.
  • caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
  • campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
  • camphoric acid — a whitish crystallizable substance derived from the oxidization of camphor, used in solution in medicine as an antiseptic. Formula: C10H16O4
  • campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
  • capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
  • cape girardeau — a city in SE Missouri, on the Mississippi River.
  • cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • capparidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Capparidaceae (or (Capparaceae), a family of plants, mostly shrubs including the caper, of warm tropical regions
  • cardiac output — blood volume in liters pumped by the left ventricle of the heart per minute.
  • cardinal point — The cardinal points are the four main points of the compass, north, south, east, and west.
  • cardiomyopathy — a disease of the heart muscle usually caused by a biochemical defect or a toxin such as alcohol
  • cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
  • cash dispenser — A cash dispenser is a machine built into the wall of a bank or other building, which allows people to take out money from their bank account using a special card.
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • cephalic index — the ratio of the greatest width of the human head to its greatest length, multiplied by 100
  • cercopithecoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the primate superfamily Cercopithecoidea (Old World monkeys)
  • chaparral bird — roadrunner.
  • chloride paper — a relatively slow printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride: used mostly for contact prints.
  • chlorpropamide — a sulfonylurea drug that reduces blood glucose and is administered orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Formula: C10H13ClN2O3S
  • chondrophorine — relating to chondrophores
  • chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
  • clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
  • cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
  • clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
  • colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
  • commandantship — the office of a commandant
  • compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
  • compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
  • comprehendible — comprehensible
  • compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
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