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14-letter words containing i, n, c, a, d

  • idiosyncrasies — a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
  • in defiance of — a daring or bold resistance to authority or to any opposing force.
  • incandescently — (of light) produced by incandescence.
  • inclined plane — one of the simple machines, a plane surface inclined to the horizon, or forming with a horizontal plane any angle but a right angle. Compare machine (def 4b).
  • inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
  • inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
  • incoordination — lack of coordination.
  • indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
  • indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • indelicateness — The quality of being indelicate; indelicacy.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indian country — (especially during the U.S. westward migration) any region where one was likely to encounter Indians, especially hostile Indians.
  • indian currant — a shrub, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus, of the honeysuckle family, found from South Dakota and Texas to the eastern coast of the U.S., having hairy leaves, inconspicuous white flowers, and reddish-purple fruit.
  • indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
  • indian sanicle — a North American boneset, Eupatorium rugosum, that has heads of white flowers and causes trembles and milk sickness.
  • indian tobacco — a common American plant, Lobelia inflata, of the lobelia family, having small, blue flowers and inflated capsules.
  • indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
  • indiscoverable — not discoverable.
  • indiscriminant — Misspelling of indiscriminate.
  • indiscriminate — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
  • indoctrinating — Present participle of indoctrinate.
  • indoctrination — the act of indoctrinating, or teaching or inculcating a doctrine, principle, or ideology, especially one with a specific point of view: religious indoctrination.
  • induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards
  • innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
  • insecticidally — in an insecticidal manner
  • inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
  • interdialectal — relating to, or existing between, different dialects
  • intracardially — in an intracardial manner
  • inverted comma — quotation mark.
  • isocyanic acid — an unstable acid, CHNO, tautomeric with cyanic acid, known only in the form of its salts.
  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
  • kidney machine — artificial kidney.
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • lacrimal gland — either of two tear-secreting glands situated in the upper outer angle of the orbit.
  • landing beacon — a radio transmitter that emits a landing beam
  • larixinic acid — maltol.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • lattice window — a window formed of an open framework of wood, metal, etc, arranged to form an ornamental pattern
  • legal medicine — the application of medical knowledge to questions of civil and criminal law, especially in court proceedings.
  • levulinic acid — a white or colorless, water-soluble solid, C 5 H 8 O 3 , produced by the hydrolysis of cane sugar, starch, or cellulose; used chiefly in the organic synthesis of nylon, plastics, and pharmaceuticals.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • linolenic acid — colourless unsaturated essential fatty acid
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • load balancing — (operating system, parallel)   Techniques which aim to spread tasks among the processors in a parallel processor to avoid some processors being idle while others have tasks queueing for execution. Load balancing may be performed either by heavily loaded processors (with many tasks in their queues) sending tasks to other processors; by idle processors requesting work from others; by some centralised task distribution mechanism; or some combination of these. Some systems allow tasks to be moved after they have started executing ("task migration") others do not. It is important that the overhead of executing the load balancing algorithm does not contribute significantly to the overall processing or communications load. Distributed scheduling algorithms may be static, dynamic or preemptive. Static algorithms allocate processes to processors at run time while taking no account of current network load. Dynamic algorithms are more flexible, though more computationally expensive, and give some consideration to the network load before allocating the new process to a processor. Preemptive algorithms are more expensive and flexible still, and may migrate running processes from one host to another if deemed beneficial. Research to date indicates that dynamic algorithms yield significant performance benefits, but that further (though lesser) gains may be had through the addition of process migration facilities.
  • lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
  • macadamization — to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
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