13-letter words containing e, v, c
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- output device — (hardware) Electronic or electromechanical equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images, sounds or other media to a display screen, printer, loudspeaker or storage device. Most modern storage devices such as disk drives and magnetic tape drives act as both input and output devices, others such as CD-ROM are input only.
- ovariectomies — Plural form of ovariectomy.
- ovariectomize — (transitive) To remove the ovaries from.
- over-abstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- over-achiever — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- over-analytic — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- over-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- over-cropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- over-educated — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
- over-exercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
- over-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- over-reactive — tending to react.
- over-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overachievers — Plural form of overachiever.
- overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
- overacuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- overallocated — Allocated in excess.
- overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
- overcast seam — a hem with long stitches passing successively over the edge
- overcivilized — excessively civilized
- overcommitted — to commit more than is feasible, desirable, or necessary.
- overconfident — too confident.
- overconscious — excessively conscious
- overconstruct — to construct excessively
- overcorrected — Simple past tense and past participle of overcorrect.
- overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
- overcredulous — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
- overdecorated — Simple past tense and past participle of overdecorate.
- overdominance — excessive dominance
- overeducation — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- overencourage — to encourage too much
- overenergetic — excessively energetic
- overexcitable — Excessively excitable.
- overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
- overprescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- overprocessed — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- overpronounce — to pronounce (a word, syllable, etc.) in an exaggerated, affected, or excessively careful manner.
- overrun screw — A variety of fandango on core produced by a C program scribbling past the end of an array (C implementations typically have no checks for this error). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static; if it is auto, the result may be to smash the stack - often resulting in heisenbugs of the most diabolical subtlety. The term "overrun screw" is used especially of scribbles beyond the end of arrays allocated with malloc; this typically overwrites the allocation header for the next block in the arena, producing massive lossage within malloc and often a core dump on the next operation to use stdio or malloc itself. See spam, overrun; see also memory leak, memory smash, aliasing bug, precedence lossage, fandango on core, secondary damage.
- oversecretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- overstretched — to stretch excessively.
- oversubscribe — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
- pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
- packet driver — (networking) IBM PC local area network software that divides data into packets which it routes to the network. It also handles incoming data, reassembling the packets so that application programs can read the data as a continuous stream. Packet drivers provide a simple, common programming interface that allows multiple applications to share a network interface at the data link layer. Packet drivers demultiplex incoming packets among the applications by using the network media's standard packet type or service access point field(s). The packet driver provides calls to initiate access to a specific packet type, to end access to it, to send a packet, to get statistics on the network interface and to get information about the interface. Protocol implementations that use the packet driver can coexist and can make use of one another's services, whereas multiple applications which do not use the driver do not coexist on one machine properly. Through use of the packet driver, a user could run TCP/IP, XNS and a proprietary protocol implementation such as DECnet, Banyan's, LifeNet's, Novell's or 3Com's without the difficulties associated with pre-empting the network interface. Applications which use the packet driver can also run on new network hardware of the same class without being modified; only a new packet driver need be supplied. There are several levels of packet driver. The first is the basic packet driver, which provides minimal functionality but should be simple to implement and which uses very few host resources. The basic driver provides operations to broadcast and receive packets. The second driver is the extended packet driver, which is a superset of the basic driver. The extended driver supports less commonly used functions of the network interface such as multicast, and also gathers statistics on use of the interface and makes these available to the application. The third level, the high-performance functions, support performance improvements and tuning.