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14-letter words containing e

  • nsa line eater — (messaging, tool)   The National Security Agency trawling program sometimes assumed to be reading the net for the US Government's spooks. Most hackers describe it as a mythical beast, but some believe it actually exists, more aren't sure, and many believe in acting as though it exists just in case. Some netters put loaded phrases like "KGB", "Uzi", "nuclear materials", "Palestine", "cocaine", and "assassination" in their sig blocks to confuse and overload the creature. The GNU version of Emacs actually has a command that randomly inserts a bunch of insidious anarcho-verbiage into your edited text. There is a mainstream variant of this myth involving a "Trunk Line Monitor", which supposedly used speech recognition to extract words from telephone trunks. This one was making the rounds in the late 1970s, spread by people who had no idea of then-current technology or the storage, signal-processing, or speech recognition needs of such a project. On the basis of mass-storage costs alone it would have been cheaper to hire 50 high-school students and just let them listen in. Speech-recognition technology can't do this job even now (1993), and almost certainly won't in this millennium, either. The peak of silliness came with a letter to an alternative paper in New Haven, Connecticut, laying out the factoids of this Big Brotherly affair. The letter writer then revealed his actual agenda by offering - at an amazing low price, just this once, we take VISA and MasterCard - a scrambler guaranteed to daunt the Trunk Trawler and presumably allowing the would-be Baader-Meinhof gangs of the world to get on with their business.
  • nt file system — (file system)   (NTFS) The native file system of Windows NT.
  • nuclear energy — energy released by reactions within atomic nuclei, as in nuclear fission or fusion.
  • nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
  • nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
  • nuclear isomer — isomer (def 2).
  • nuclear option — the use of or power to use nuclear weapons
  • nuclear weapon — an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei.
  • nuclear winter — the general devastation of life, along with worldwide darkness and extreme cold, that some scientists believe would result from a global dust cloud screening out sunlight following large-scale nuclear detonations.
  • nuclearization — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
  • nucleoproteins — Plural form of nucleoprotein.
  • nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
  • nuisance value — the usefulness of a person's or thing's capacity to cause difficulties or irritation
  • null character — Computers. a control character representing nothing, with the value of binary zero, but having special meaning when interpreted as text, as in marking the end of character strings.
  • nulli secundus — second to none
  • numeral system — any notation for the representation of numerals or numbers.
  • numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • numidian crane — the demoiselle crane
  • nursery school — a prekindergarten school for children from about three to five years of age.
  • nursery slopes — gentle slopes used by beginners in skiing
  • nursery stakes — a race for two-year-old horses
  • nurserypersons — Plural form of nurseryperson.
  • nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
  • nursing mother — a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
  • nursing sister — a female nurse, sometimes of a high grade
  • nutraceuticals — Plural form of nutraceutical.
  • nutrient-dense — (of food) relatively rich in nutrients for the number of calories contained: A potato is a nutrient-dense carbohydrate.
  • nutritiousness — providing nourishment, especially to a high degree; nourishing; healthful: a good, nutritious meal.
  • nyctaginaceous — belonging to the Nyctaginaceae, the four-o'clock family of plants.
  • obedient plant — false dragonhead.
  • object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
  • objective caml — (language)   (Originally "CAML" - Categorical Abstract Machine Language) A version of ML by G. Huet, G. Cousineau, Ascander Suarez, Pierre Weis, Michel Mauny and others of INRIA. CAML is intermediate between LCF ML and SML [in what sense?]. It has first-class functions, static type inference with polymorphic types, user-defined variant types and product types, and pattern matching. It is built on a proprietary run-time system. The CAML V3.1 implementation added lazy and mutable data structures, a "grammar" mechanism for interfacing with the Yacc parser generator, pretty-printing tools, high-performance arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and a complete library. in 1990 Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez designed a new implementation called CAML Light, freeing the previous implementation from too many experimental high-level features, and more importantly, from the old Le_Lisp back-end. Following the addition of a native-code compiler and a powerful module system in 1995 and of the object and class layer in 1996, the project's name was changed to Objective CAML. In 2000, Jacques Garrigue added labeled and optional arguments and anonymous variants.
  • objective case — objective (def 2a).
  • objective lens — objective (def 3).
  • objective test — a test consisting of factual questions requiring extremely short answers that can be quickly and unambiguously scored by anyone with an answer key, thus minimizing subjective judgments by both the person taking the test and the person scoring it.
  • objective-case — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • objective-lens — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • objectlessness — The state or condition of being objectless.
  • objet de vertu — an object of virtu
  • obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • oblique motion — the relative motion of two melodic parts in which one remains in place or moves relatively little while the other moves more actively.
  • oblique stroke — (character)   "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
  • oboe da caccia — a member of the oboe family; the predecessor of the cor anglais
  • obsequiousness — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
  • observer force — a force deployed to an area of conflict to observe proceedings
  • obstreperously — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
  • occipital bone — a curved, compound bone forming the back and part of the base of the skull.
  • occipital lobe — the most posterior lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, behind the parietal and temporal lobes.
  • occluded front — a composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft.
  • occult balance — asymmetrical balance of visual elements in an artistic composition.
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