15-letter words containing t, e, n, d
- vector addition — the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.
- venetian dentil — (on an archivolt or molding) one of a series of small rectangular blocks having chamfers at alternate edges.
- venetian window — Palladian window.
- vested interest — a special interest in an existing system, arrangement, or institution for particular personal reasons.
- vincent de paul — Saint, 1576–1660, French Roman Catholic priest noted for his work to aid the poor.
- vindicativeness — the quality or state of being vindicative
- viscosity index — an arbitrary scale for lubricating oils that indicates the extent of variation in viscosity with variation of temperature.
- volume discount — a reduced price for goods given by a seller on the basis that the buyer buys a large quantity
- vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
- wage indexation — the linking of wages to an index representing the cost of living, so that they are automatically adjusted up or down as that rises or falls
- warmheartedness — The quality of being warmhearted.
- wattle and daub — Also, wattle and dab. a building technique employing wattles plastered with clay and mud.
- weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- wedding banquet — a lavish meal served after a wedding ceremony
- wedding present — a present given to a couple when they get married
- weekend cottage — a cottage where people spend weekends
- well turned out — smartly dressed
- well-acquainted — having personal knowledge as a result of study, experience, etc.; informed (usually followed by with): to be acquainted with law.
- well-controlled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- well-delineated — to trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline; represent pictorially: He delineated the state of Texas on the map with a red pencil.
- well-documented — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- well-identified — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- well-integrated — combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole: an integrated plot; an integrated course of study.
- well-maintained — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- well-positioned — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- well-understood — simple past tense and past participle of understand.
- well-ventilated — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
- west des moines — a city in S central Iowa, near Des Moines.
- west wind drift — Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
- white zinfandel — a medium-sweet rosé wine made from zinfandel grapes.
- widow's benefit — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a former weekly payment made to a widow
- wiener neustadt — a city in E Austria, in Lower Austria. Pop: 37 627 (2002)
- winchester disk — a hard disk that is permanently mounted in its unit.
- wind instrument — a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute.
- wind-pollinated — being pollinated by airborne pollen.
- windows sockets — (networking, standard) (Winsock) A specification for Microsoft Windows network software, describing how applications can access network services, especially TCP/IP. Winsock is intended to provide a single API to which application developers should program and to which multiple network software vendors should conform. For any particular version of Microsoft Windows, it defines a binary interface (ABI) such that an application written to the Windows Sockets API can work with a conformant protocol implementation from any network software vendor. Winsock was conceived at Fall Interop '91 during a Birds of a Feather session. Windows Sockets is supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows for Workgroups, Win32s, Windows 95 and Windows NT. It will support protocols other than TCP/IP. Under Windows NT, Microsoft will provide Windows Sockets support over TCP/IP and IPX/SPX. DEC will be implementing DECNet. Windows NT will include mechanisms for multiple protocol support in Windows Sockets, both 32-bit and 16 bit. Mark Towfiq said, "The next rev. of Winsock will not be until toward the end of 1993. We need 1.1 of the API to become firmly settled and implemented first." Currently NetManage (NEWT), Distinct, FTP and Frontier are shipping Winsock TCP/IP stacks, as is Microsoft (Windows NT and TCP/IP for WFW), Beame & Whiteside Software (v1.1 compliant), and Sun PC-NFS. Windows 95 has "dial-up networking" which supports Winsock and TCP/IP. winsock.dll is available from some TCP/IP stack vendors. Novell has one in beta for their Lan Workplace for DOS. Peter Tattam <[email protected]> is alpha-testing a shareware Windows Sockets compliant TCP/IP stack ftp://ftp.utas.edu.au/pc/trumpet/winsock/winsock.zip. and ftp://ftp.utas.edu.au/pc/trumpet/winsock/winpkt.com.
- winter flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
- winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
- winter resident — a person who spends the winter in a particular place
- with one accord — If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done.
- women's studies — a program of studies concentrating on the role of women in history, learning, and culture.
- wonder-stricken — struck or affected with wonder.
- wood turpentine — turpentine obtained from pine trees.
- wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
- x window system — (operating system, graphics) A specification for device-independent windowing operations on bitmap display devices, developed initially by MIT's Project Athena and now a de facto standard supported by the X Consortium. X was named after an earlier window system called "W". It is a window system called "X", not a system called "X Windows". X uses a client-server protocol, the X protocol. The server is the computer or X terminal with the screen, keyboard, mouse and server program and the clients are application programs. Clients may run on the same computer as the server or on a different computer, communicating over Ethernet via TCP/IP protocols. This is confusing because X clients often run on what people usually think of as their server (e.g. a file server) but in X, it is the screen and keyboard etc. which is being "served out" to the applications. X is used on many Unix systems. It has also been described as over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and incredibly over-complicated. X11R6 (version 11, release 6) was released in May 1994. See also Andrew project, PEX, VNC, XFree86.
- young pretender — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.
- zenith distance — the angular distance from the zenith of a point on the celestial sphere to the sphere, measured along a great circle that is perpendicular to the horizon; the complement of the altitude.