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14-letter words containing i, n, d, r, e, c

  • non-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
  • non-iridescent — displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow.
  • noncardiogenic — Not cardiogenic.
  • 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.
  • nondoctrinaire — not concerned with or related to doctrine
  • nonpredictable — Not predictable.
  • nonprejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
  • nonradioactive — not radioactive
  • nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
  • numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • numidian crane — the demoiselle crane
  • 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.
  • over-confident — too confident.
  • overconfidence — too confident.
  • overdecoration — excessive decoration
  • overindulgence — excessive indulgence
  • overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
  • overproduction — excessive production; production in excess of need or stipulated amount.
  • owner-occupied — (of a home, apartment, etc.) used as a residence by the owner.
  • panic disorder — a disorder in which inappropriate, intense apprehension and physical symptoms of fear occur so frequently as to produce significant impairment.
  • parcel gilding — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
  • precision-made — made to precise specifications
  • 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.
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
  • procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • propenoic acid — systematic name of acrylic acid
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
  • 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.
  • radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • ranch dressing — seasoned mayonnaise sauce
  • rationalized c — (language)   (RatC, after "RATFOR") A version of Ron Cain's original Small-C compiler.
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