14-letter words containing da
- whaddayacallit — A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember.
- year and a day — a period fixed by law to ensure the completion of a full year. It is applied for certain purposes, such as to determine the time within which wrecks must be claimed
- yesterday week — a week yesterday; a week ago from yesterday
- yoda condition — (programming) The programming practise of using if (constant == variable) e.g. if (4 == foo) instead of the more natural if (variable == constant) It is named after the Star Wars character Yoda who says things like "Strong is Vader". It may have been invented as a way to prevent coding errors like if (count = 5) (accidentally using a single "=" (assignment) instead of a double "==" (comparison)). The above is syntactically valid whereas the Yoda equivalent would give a compile-time error.
- zenaida (dove) — either of two wild doves, (Zenaida aurita) of Florida and the Caribbean, or (Z. asiatica) of the SW U.S. to Chile
- zona pellucida — the transparent, noncellular layer surrounding the ovum of mammals, often having radial striations.