0%

10-letter words containing u, s, e, i

  • pursership — the position of purser
  • push aside — shove to one side
  • 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.
  • putrescine — a colourless crystalline amine produced by decaying animal matter; 1,4-diaminobutane. Formula: H2N(CH2)4NH2
  • pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
  • quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
  • quadrilles — Plural form of quadrille.
  • quadrisect — to divide (something) into four equal parts.
  • quaintness — (obsolete) Cunning; craftiness.
  • qualifiers — Plural form of qualifier.
  • quandaries — Plural form of quandary.
  • quantifies — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
  • quantities — Plural form of quantity.
  • quasi-free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • quasiorder — (set theory) A preorder.
  • queasiness — The state of being queasy; nausea.
  • queen-size — (of a bed) larger than a double bed, but smaller than king-size, usually 60 inches (152 cm) wide and 80 inches (203 cm) long.
  • queer fish — strange person
  • quesadilla — a tortilla folded over a filling of shredded cheese, onions, and chilies and broiled or fried.
  • questioned — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • questionee — a person who is questioned
  • questioner — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • quicksteps — Plural form of quickstep.
  • quiddities — Plural form of quiddity.
  • quiescence — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
  • quiescency — Quiescence: the state of being quiescent, or at rest.
  • quietistic — Of or relating to quietism, a philosophy of passivity and non-involvement.
  • quincunxes — Plural form of quincunx.
  • quinestrol — a synthetic estrogen, C 2 5 H 3 2 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives.
  • quinolones — Plural form of quinolone.
  • quintuples — Plural form of quintuple.
  • quirkiness — having or full of quirks.
  • quittances — Plural form of quittance.
  • quiverfuls — Plural form of quiverful.
  • quivertips — Plural form of quivertip.
  • quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
  • quizziness — unusualness, eccentricity
  • quodlibets — Plural form of quodlibet.
  • race music — blues-based music or jazz by and for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was regarded as a distinctive, separate market by the music industry; early jazz or rhythm-and-blues.
  • radiculose — having small roots or rhizoids
  • rafinesque — Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.
  • raisonneur — a character in a play, novel, or the like who voices the central theme, philosophy, or point of view of the work.
  • re-discuss — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
  • reassuring — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
  • rebellious — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
  • recidivous — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
  • recusation — the act of recusing a judge
  • red squill — a variety of squill whose bulbs are red, used chiefly as a rat poison.
  • redisburse — to refund or reimburse
  • rediscount — to discount again.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?