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14-letter words containing r, e, c, t, a, n

  • premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • pretransaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
  • prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
  • principal type — The most general type of an expression. For example, the following are all valid types for the lambda abstraction (\ x . x): Int -> Int Bool -> Bool (a->b) -> (a->b) but any valid type will be an instance of the principal type: a -> a. An instance is derived by substituting the same type expression for all occurences of some type variable. The principal type of an expression can be computed from those of its subexpressions by Robinson's unification algorithm.
  • principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
  • proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
  • purse snatcher — wallet thief
  • 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.
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • 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
  • raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • rationalized c — (language)   (RatC, after "RATFOR") A version of Ron Cain's original Small-C compiler.
  • raunch culture — a culture which promotes overtly sexual representations of women, as through the acceptance of pornography, stripping, nudity in advertising, etc, esp when this is encouraged by women
  • 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.
  • reacquaintance — a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.
  • 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.
  • rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
  • recalcitration — the act of being recalcitrant
  • recanalization — the reopening of a previously occluded passageway within a blood vessel.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
  • reception area — the waiting area in a hotel near the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
  • recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
  • recolonization — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
  • recommendation — an act of recommending.
  • recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • reconciliation — an act of reconciling, as when former enemies agree to an amicable truce.
  • reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
  • recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
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