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14-letter words containing ond

  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • do wonders for — to make a remarkable improvement in
  • drummond light — calcium light.
  • endoradiosonde — an internally placed electronic device that relays information about conditions inside the body
  • equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • equiponderated — Simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate.
  • exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • flaked almonds — small flat pieces of almond used in cooking
  • greater london — Jack, 1876–1916, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • homme du monde — a man of the world; a sophisticate.
  • hypochondriacs — Plural form of hypochondriac.
  • imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.
  • jonker diamond — a noted diamond weighing 726 carats, discovered in the Transvaal in 1934 and cut into 12 pieces.
  • london company — a company, chartered in England in 1606 to establish colonies in America, that founded Jamestown, Va., in 1607.
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • matara diamond — a zircon heat-treated to render it colorless: not a true diamond.
  • mint condition — pristine state
  • multiconductor — having or involving several electrical conductors
  • muni bond fund — municipal bond fund.
  • municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • non-conductive — having the property or capability of conducting.
  • noncondensable — lacking the ability to be condensed
  • nonconditioned — Not conditioned.
  • nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • nondenominated — designating or of a postage stamp that has no denomination printed on it
  • nondescription — Absence of description; failure to describe something.
  • nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • nondestructive — Not involving damage or destruction, especially of an object or material that is being tested.
  • nondeterminism — (computing) Dependence on factors other than initial state and input.
  • nondevelopment — the lack of normal development
  • nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
  • nondimensional — Not dimensional.
  • nondirectional — functioning equally well in all directions; omnidirectional.
  • nondisjunction — the failure of chromosomes to separate and segregate into daughter cells at division.
  • nondistinctive — not serving to distinguish meanings: a nondistinctive difference in sound.
  • nondiversified — Not diversified.
  • nondoctrinaire — not concerned with or related to doctrine
  • nondocumentary — a film or television programme not reflecting real life
  • ondes martenot — an electronic keyboard instrument in which the frequency of an oscillator is varied to produce separate musical notes
  • one-hit wonder — a singer, composer or group that only ever has one successful piece
  • osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
  • platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
  • ponderosa pine — Also called western yellow pine. a large pine, Pinus ponderosa, of western North America, having yellowish-brown bark: the state tree of Montana.
  • post-obit bond — a bond paying a sum of money after the death of some specified person.
  • preconditioned — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
  • preponderantly — superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing: a preponderant misconception.
  • 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.
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