14-letter words containing ting
- plotting sheet — a blank chart having only a compass rose and latitude lines, longitude lines, or both, marked and annotated, as required, by a navigator.
- pointing stick — TrackPoint
- prayer meeting — a meeting chiefly for prayer.
- pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- printing error — a misprint or misspelling in a text
- printing frame — a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.
- printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- printing paper — sensitized paper for printing positives.
- printing press — a machine, as a cylinder press or rotary press, for printing on paper or the like from type, plates, etc.
- printing works — an establishment in which printing is carried out
- propitiatingly — to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
- pulsating star — a type of variable star, the variation in brightness resulting from expansion and subsequent contraction of the star
- quaker meeting — a meeting of Quakers, at which all members, except those moved to speak, remain silent.
- random testing — (programming, testing) A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work.
- reassimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- reinvigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
- ribbon-cutting — a ceremony marking the official opening of a site, the commencement of its construction, etc., typically involving the cutting of a ribbon suspended as across an entrance
- roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
- rooting reflex — a reflex in infants in which the head is turned towards any stimulus; used to find the nipple
- rotating stock — Rotating stock is a system used especially in food stores and to reduce wastage, in which the oldest stock is moved to the front of shelves and new stock is added at the back.
- routing policy — (networking) Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
- rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
- screen editing — the act or process of editing text on screen
- second sitting — A second sitting is the second period when a meal is served if there is not enough space for everyone to eat at the same time.
- self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
- self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
- self-directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- self-executing — going into effect immediately without the need of supplementary legislation: a self-executing treaty.
- self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- self-operating — automatic.
- semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
- setting lotion — a perfumed solution of gum or a synthetic resin in a solvent, used in hairdressing to make a set last longer
- shifting sands — If you refer to the shifting sands of a situation, you mean that it changes so often that it is difficult to deal with.
- shooting brake — station wagon.
- shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
- shooting lodge — a country house providing accommodation for a shooting party during the shooting season
- shooting match — a contest in marksmanship.
- shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
- shooting range — place for practising with guns
- shooting spree — a series of shootings by a mad person
- shooting stick — a device resembling a cane or walking stick, with a spike on one end and a small, folding seat on the other, often used by spectators at outdoor sporting events.
- shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
- shutting stile — the stile of a door or shutter that closes against the frame of the opening.
- side-splitting — convulsively uproarious: sidesplitting laughter.
- sitting member — a current member of parliament
- sitting pretty — (of a bird) occupying a nest of eggs for hatching.
- sitting target — A sitting target is the same as a sitting duck.
- sitting tenant — A sitting tenant is a person who rents a house or flat as their home and has a legal right to live there.