11-letter words containing d, i, s, c
- fixed costs — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
- floppy disc — (spelling) It's "floppy disk", not like "compact disc".
- food prices — the prices that consumers are charged for food
- foodservice — The business of providing food and related services.
- fratricides — Plural form of fratricide.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- funduscopic — Relating to funduscopy.
- galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
- gasconading — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- gerodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with aging and aged persons.
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- glycolipids — Plural form of glycolipid.
- glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
- 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
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- hand-stitch — to stitch or sew by hand.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- 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.
- 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.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- 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).
- 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.
- incontested — Not contested or challenged.
- incrassated — Simple past tense and past participle of incrassate.
- increasedly — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- incrossbred — of or relating to the progeny that result from crossing inbred lines or varieties.
- indecencies — Plural form of indecency.