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10-letter words containing m, e, a, d

  • programmed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
  • psalmodize — to sing psalms
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
  • pull media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution were the bits of content have to be requested by the user, e.g. normal use of HTTP on the web. Opposite: "push media".
  • push media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
  • quadrireme — (in classical antiquity) a galley having four banks of oars.
  • quadrumane — a quadrumanous animal, as a monkey.
  • radio beam — beam (def 12).
  • radiometer — Also called Crookes radiometer. an instrument for demonstrating the transformation of radiant energy into mechanical work, consisting of an exhausted glass vessel containing vanes that revolve about an axis when exposed to light.
  • randomness — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
  • randomwise — in a random manner
  • readmitted — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
  • ready meal — convenience food: frozen dinner
  • ready room — a room in which members of an aircrew await their orders for takeoff.
  • ready-made — made in advance for sale to any purchaser, rather than to order: a ready-made coat.
  • reaffirmed — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
  • red salmon — sockeye salmon.
  • redeemable — capable of being redeemed.
  • remediable — capable of being remedied.
  • remediated — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • remediates — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • remodulate — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
  • reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
  • retardment — the act of retarding or state of being retarded.
  • rhabdomere — one of the many parts that makes up a rhabdom
  • rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
  • rich media — any internet content that interacts with the user, for example by expanding or streaming video content when the user's mouse hovers over it
  • road metal — broken stone, cinders, etc., used for making roads.
  • road movie — film in which story follows a journey
  • roberdsman — a robber
  • roman ride — a method of horseback riding in which a person stands astride a pair of horses.
  • rudimental — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
  • saddleroom — a room for storing saddlery
  • salamander — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
  • sand smelt — variety of saltwater fish
  • second man — a person who assists the driver in crewing a locomotive
  • sedimental — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
  • self-named — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
  • semi-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
  • semi-nomad — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
  • semifeudal — partly feudal
  • semisacred — partly or somewhat sacred; sacred to a limited degree; having some characteristics of the sacred
  • shamefaced — modest or bashful.
  • sidestream — (of cigarette smoke) inhaled by passive smokers
  • slam dance — a dance performed to punk rock by groups of people who flail and toss themselves about and slam into one another.
  • smaragdine — of or relating to emeralds.
  • smaragdite — a green, foliated member of the amphibole group.
  • smartdrive — (storage, product)   A Microsoft MS DOS disk cache program to speed up disk access. For most users, a 1MB cache is sufficient. Devoting more memory to the cache offers diminishing returns, since the additional cache hits become fewer (and the extra memory could be better used to reduce swapping). Typing SMARTDRV /S at a DOS prompt shows the cache size, a hit-and-miss report, and information about which drives are being cached. The hit-and-miss statistics are crucial for gauging the effectiveness of SmartDrive settings. A score in the high 80s shows that SmartDrive is well configured. Run SMARTDRV /S several times during a Windows session and note the-hit-and-miss figures each time. If your percentage usually falls below 80 percent, you should consider increasing the cache size. You can edit the SMARTDRV line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to increase both the InitCacheSize and the WinCacheSize parameters. SmartDrive Monitor is an undocumented Windows program that comes with DOS 6.0 for logging and controling the cache.
  • smear word — a slanderous, vilifying epithet.
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