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17-letter words containing d, u, t

  • institutionalized — to make institutional.
  • insulin-dependent — of or relating to the type of diabetes that mainly affects young people
  • integrated course — a course that covers several subjects
  • intercommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of intercommunicate.
  • interdental brush — a small brush that is used to clean between the teeth
  • interrupt handler — (software)   A routine which is executed when an interrupt occurs. Interrupt handlers typically deal with low-level events in the hardware of a computer system such as a character arriving at a serial port or a tick of a real-time clock. Special care is required when writing an interrupt handler to ensure that either the interrupt which triggered the handler's execution is masked out (inhibitted) until the handler exits, or the handler is re-entrant so that multiple concurrent invocations will not interfere with each other. If interrupts are masked then the handler must execute as quickly as possible so that important events are not missed. This is often arranged by splitting the processing associated with the event into "upper" and "lower" halves. The lower part is the interrupt handler which masks out further interrupts as required, checks that the appropriate event has occurred (this may be necessary if several events share the same interrupt), services the interrupt, e.g. by reading a character from a UART and writing it to a queue, and re-enabling interrupts. The upper half executes as part of a user process. It waits until the interrupt handler has run. Normally the operating system is responsible for reactivating a process which is waiting for some low-level event. It detects this by a shared flag or by inspecting a shared queue or by some other synchronisation mechanism. It is important that the upper and lower halves do not interfere if an interrupt occurs during the execution of upper half code. This is usually ensured by disabling interrupts during critical sections of code such as removing a character from a queue.
  • interrupted screw — a screw having the thread interrupted in one or more places by longitudinal channels, as in the breech of a cannon or the lead screw of a lathe.
  • irreproducibility — The quality of not being reproducible.
  • island of the sun — Sicily: the island where Helius kept his oxen.
  • italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
  • juazeiro do norte — a city in Bahia state, NE Brazil.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • jurisprudentially — In terms of jurisprudence.
  • juvenile diabetes — any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production.
  • kastor and pollux — Castor and Pollux.
  • label edge router — (networking)   (LER) A device that sits at the edge of an MPLS domain, that uses routing information to assign labels to datagrams and then forwards them into the MPLS domain.
  • ladder tournament — a tournament in which the entrants are listed by name and rank, advancement being by means of challenging and defeating an entrant ranked one or two places higher.
  • lady of the house — the female head of a household (usually preceded by the).
  • lambdoidal suture — the lambda-shaped seam or line of joining between the occipital and two parietal bones at the back part of the skull.
  • latitudinarianism — Tolerance of other people's views, particularly in religious context.
  • le morte d'arthur — a compilation and translation of French Arthurian romances by Sir Thomas Malory, printed by Caxton in 1485.
  • least upper bound — an upper bound that is less than or equal to all the upper bounds of a particular set. 3 is the least upper bound of the set consisting of 1, 2, 3. Abbr.: lub.
  • legendre equation — a differential equation of the form (1− x 2) d2y/dx2 − 2 xdy/dx + a (a + 1) y = 0, where a is an arbitrary constant.
  • liberal education — an education based primarily on the liberal arts, emphasizing the development of intellectual abilities as opposed to the acquisition of professional skills.
  • line of induction — (formerly) a line of force in a magnetic field.
  • line of longitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating longitude
  • liquid petrolatum — mineral oil.
  • liquid propellant — a rocket propellant in liquid form.
  • liquidity cushion — a reserve fund of assets held by a company or person
  • lithium hydroxide — a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound, LiOH, used to absorb carbon dioxide, especially in spacesuits.
  • loggerhead turtle — a sea turtle, Caretta caretta, having a large head: now greatly reduced in number.
  • longitudinal wave — a wave in which the direction of displacement is the same as the direction of propagation, as a sound wave.
  • make the dust fly — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
  • manitoulin island — an island in N Lake Huron belonging to Canada. 80 miles (130 km) long.
  • manufactured home — a prefabricated house, assembled in modular sections.
  • mare fecunditatis — (Sea of Fertility) a dark plain in the fourth quadrant and extending into the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 160,000 sq. mi. (415,000 sq. km).
  • media access unit — (networking)   (MAU or Multistation Access Unit, MSAU) In a Token Ring network, a device to attach multiple network stations in a star topology, internally wired to connect the stations into a logical ring. The MAU contains relays to short out nonoperating stations. Multiple MAUs can be connected into a larger ring through their Ring In/Ring Out connectors.
  • medium close shot — a shot taken fairly close to the subject, but not as close as a close-up
  • medulla oblongata — the lowest or hindmost part of the brain, continuous with the spinal cord.
  • memoised function — memo function
  • memoized function — memo function
  • metatungstic acid — an oxyacid acid of tungsten. Formula: H2W4O13
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • microminiaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of microminiaturize.
  • microreproduction — a photographic image too small to be read by the unaided eye.
  • misunderstandable — Capable of being misunderstood.
  • misunderstandings — Plural form of misunderstanding.
  • modest mussorgski — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
  • modulo arithmetic — modular arithmetic
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