14-letter words containing n, a, c, r, o
- preunification — of the period before unification
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
- processing tax — a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods.
- procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procrastinator — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
- prognosticator — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- project athena — (project) A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System.
- projectisation — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
- projectization — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
- promenade deck — an upper deck or part of a deck on a passenger ship where passengers can stroll, often covered with a light shade deck.
- pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
- propagandistic — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
- propanoic acid — propionic acid.
- propenoic acid — systematic name of acrylic acid
- propionic acid — a colorless, oily, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 6 O 2 , having a pungent odor: used in making bread-mold-inhibiting propionates, in perfumery, and in medicine as a topical fungicide.
- prosencephalon — the forebrain.
- proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- put one across — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
- pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
- quasi contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
- quasi-contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
- 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.
- race relations — relationships between races
- racing colours — the colours painted on a racing car to represent the nation of the car or driver
- radicalization — to make radical or more radical, as in politics: young people who are being radicalized by extremist philosophies.
- radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- rainbow cactus — an erect stiff cactus, Echinocereus pectinatus rigidissimus, of Arizona and Mexico, having a cylindrical body, numerous interlocking spines, and pink flowers.
- rainbow-collar — being or of an employee who combines work or experience on the assembly line with more technical or administrative duties; having both blue-collar and white-collar duties or experience.
- raking cornice — either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rancho cordova — a town in central California.
- ranunculaceous — belonging to the Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family of plants.
- rationalized c — (language) (RatC, after "RATFOR") A version of Ron Cain's original Small-C compiler.
- re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- 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.
- readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- ready reckoner — reckoner (def 2).
- rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.