14-letter words containing i, d, e, n, t, c
- nonclandestine — not clandestine or secret; open
- noncomplicated — (esp of a medical condition or procedure) not involving complications
- nonconditioned — Not conditioned.
- nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- nondescription — Absence of description; failure to describe something.
- nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- nondestructive — Not involving damage or destruction, especially of an object or material that is being tested.
- nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
- nondirectional — functioning equally well in all directions; omnidirectional.
- nondistinctive — not serving to distinguish meanings: a nondistinctive difference in sound.
- nondoctrinaire — not concerned with or related to doctrine
- noneducational — not educational or related to education
- nonpredictable — Not predictable.
- nonradioactive — not radioactive
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- octodecillions — Plural form of octodecillion.
- old-time dance — a formal or formation dance, such as the lancers
- operation code — (programming) (Always "op code" when spoken) The part or parts of a machine language instruction which determines what kind of action the computer should take, e.g. add, jump, load, store. In any particular instruction set certain fixed bit positions within the instruction word contain the op code, others give parameters such as the addresses or registers involved. For example, in a 32-bit instruction the most significant eight bits might be the op code giving 256 possible operations. For some instruction sets, certain values in the fixed bit positions may select a group of operations and the exact operation may depend on other bits within instruction word or subsequent words. When programming in assembly language, the op code is represented by a readable name called an instruction mnemonic.
- outside chance — a slight chance or likelihood
- over-confident — too confident.
- overdecoration — excessive decoration
- overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
- overproduction — excessive production; production in excess of need or stipulated amount.
- pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
- peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
- pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
- pentanoic acid — colourless liquid carboxylic acid
- photoinductive — of, relating to, or being able to undergo photoinduction
- photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
- photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
- picture window — a large window in a house, usually dominating the room or wall in which it is located, and often designed or placed to present an attractive view.
- pigeon-chested — having a narrow chest that sticks out at the front in an unusual way
- pitch cylinder — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- pitching wedge — a club with a face angle of more than 50°, used for short, lofted pitch shots
- platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
- pneumatic duct — the duct joining the air bladder and alimentary canal of a physostomous fish.
- pocket edition — pocketbook (def 3).
- polar distance — codeclination.
- polynucleotide — a sequence of nucleotides, as in DNA or RNA, bound into a chain.
- potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
- preconditioned — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
- predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
- predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
- race condition — Anomalous behavior due to unexpected critical dependence on the relative timing of events. For example, if one process writes to a file while another is reading from the same location then the data read may be the old contents, the new contents or some mixture of the two depending on the relative timing of the read and write operations. A common remedy in this kind of race condition is file locking; a more cumbersome remedy is to reorganize the system such that a certain processes (running a daemon or the like) is the only process that has access to the file, and all other processes that need to access the data in that file do so only via interprocess communication with that one process. As an example of a more subtle kind of race condition, consider a distributed chat network like IRC, where a user is granted channel-operator privileges in any channel he starts. If two users on different servers, on different ends of the same network, try to start the same-named channel at the same time, each user's respective server will grant channel-operator privileges to each user, since neither will yet have received the other's signal that that channel has been started. In this case of a race condition, the "shared resource" is the conception of the state of the network (what channels exist, as well as what users started them and therefore have what privileges), which each server is free to change as long as it signals the other servers on the network about the changes so that they can update their conception of the state of the network. However, the latency across the network makes possible the kind of race condition described. In this case, heading off race conditions by imposing a form of control over access to the shared resource -- say, appointing one server to be in charge of who holds what privileges -- would mean turning the distributed network into a centralized one (at least for that one part of the network operation). Where this is not acceptable, the more pragmatic solution is to have the system recognize when a race condition has occurred and to repair the ill effects. Race conditions also affect electronic circuits where the value output by a logic gate depends on the exact timing of two or more input signals. For example, consider a two input AND gate fed with a logic signal X on input A and its negation, NOT X, on input B. In theory, the output (X AND NOT X) should never be high. However, if changes in the value of X take longer to propagate to input B than to input A then when X changes from false to true, there will be a brief period during which both inputs are true, and so the gate's output will also be true. If this output is fed to an edge-sensitive component such as a counter or flip-flop then the temporary effect ("glitch") will become permanent.
- rationalized c — (language) (RatC, after "RATFOR") A version of Ron Cain's original Small-C compiler.
- reading notice — a short advertisement placed at the bottom of a column, as on the front page of a newspaper, and often set in the same print as other matter.