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

  • pantomime dame — an exaggerated comedic female character in a pantomime played by a male actor
  • paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
  • para-toluidine — a white, flaky, lustrous, very slightly water-soluble solid, C 7 H 9 N, the para isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes, in organic synthesis, and as a reagent in tests for nitrite, lignin, and phloroglucinol.
  • pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
  • pedestrianized — A pedestrianized area has been made into an area that is intended for pedestrians, not vehicles.
  • 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
  • pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
  • peritonealized — to cover with peritoneum.
  • philanthropoid — an individual who does work for a charitable body
  • photooxidation — oxidation induced by light.
  • pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
  • pitch and putt — of or relating to a small-scale golf course, 5 to 20 acres, and usually having 9 holes of 50 yards in length from tee to cup.
  • pitch-and-putt — of or relating to a small-scale golf course, 5 to 20 acres, and usually having 9 holes of 50 yards in length from tee to cup.
  • pitch-and-toss — a game in which players toss coins at a mark, the person whose coin hits closest to the mark tossing all the coins in the air and winning all those that come down heads up.
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
  • platonic solid — one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.
  • plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
  • pneumatic duct — the duct joining the air bladder and alimentary canal of a physostomous fish.
  • poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
  • pointed domain — (theory)   In most formulations of domain theory, a domain is defined to have a bottom element and algebraic CPOs without bottoms are called "predomains". David Schmidt's domains do not have this requirement and he calls a domain with a bottom "pointed".
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • position audit — a systematic assessment of the current strengths and weaknesses of an organization as a prerequisite for future strategic planning
  • postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
  • postindustrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
  • postnasal drip — a trickling of mucus onto the pharyngeal surface from the posterior portion of the nasal cavity, usually caused by a cold or allergy.
  • pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • predesignation — to designate beforehand.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • predestinarian — of or relating to predestination.
  • predestination — an act of predestinating or predestining.
  • predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
  • predeterminate — determined beforehand; predetermined.
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • 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.
  • printed matter — any of various kinds of printed material that qualifies for a special postal rate.
  • procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • promenade tile — a machine-made, unglazed, ceramic floor tile.
  • propagandistic — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • quadrantanopia — (medicine) The loss of vision in one or more quadrants of the field of view.
  • quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
  • quarter window — (on a car) a small triangular side window with hinges that can be opened for extra ventilation
  • quintuplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuplicate.
  • quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
  • 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.
  • radiant energy — energy transmitted in wave motion, especially electromagnetic wave motion.
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