14-letter words that end in ct
- after the fact — after the commission of the offence
- almond extract — oil, essence
- andrew project — (project) A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at Carnegie Mellon University, named after Andrew Carnegie, an American philanthropist who provided money to establish CMU. See also Andrew File System, Andrew Message System, Andrew Toolkit, class.
- benign neglect — If you describe someone's approach to a problem as one of benign neglect, you disapprove of the fact that they are doing nothing and hoping that the problem will solve itself.
- bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
- cache conflict — (storage) A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
- casual contact — the level of contact at which a person is not subject to contracting a communicable disease from another, especially nonsexual contact with a person infected with a venereal disease.
- cheese product — a processed cheese consisting in the U.S. of at least 50 percent cheese to which cheese whey or whey albumin may be added.
- class conflict — conflict between different social or economic classes
- cognate object — a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
- compton effect — a phenomenon in which a collision between a photon and a particle results in an increase in the kinetic energy of the particle and a corresponding increase in the wavelength of the photon
- contradistinct — Distinguished by opposite qualities.
- counterproject — an opposing project or scheme
- countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
- direct product — a group, or other such system, every element of which can be written uniquely as the product of elements of disjoint groups, with each group contributing one element to the product.
- doppler effect — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- family compact — any influential clique
- faraday effect — the rotation of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light as the light passes through certain isotropic media in the direction of a strong magnetic field in which the medium is placed.
- founder effect — the accumulation of random genetic changes in an isolated population as a result of its proliferation from only a few parent colonizers.
- frenkel defect — a crystal defect in which a lattice ion has moved to an interstitial position leaving a vacant lattice site
- future perfect — perfect with respect to a temporal point of reference in time to come; completed with respect to a time in the future, especially when incomplete with respect to the present.
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- in actual fact — You use in fact, in actual fact, or in point of fact to indicate that you are giving more detailed information about what you have just said.
- lattice defect — defect (def 3).
- lend-lease act — the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war.
- letter-perfect — knowing one's part, lesson, or the like, perfectly.
- matter-of-fact — adhering strictly to fact; not imaginative; prosaic; dry; commonplace: a matter-of-fact account of the political rally.
- mount prospect — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- navigation act — any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.
- nexpert object — An expert system.
- pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
- peltier effect — the change in temperature of either junction of a thermocouple when a current is maintained in the thermocouple and after allowance is made for a temperature change due to resistance.
- placebo effect — a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
- pneumatic duct — the duct joining the air bladder and alimentary canal of a physostomous fish.
- powder compact — make-up: small case of foundation
- primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
- proxy conflict — a conflict between third parties, through whom enemies attack each other
- quasi contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
- quasi-contract — an obligation imposed by law in the absence of a contract to prevent unjust enrichment.
- ratchet effect — intermittent growth, increase, expansion, or the like: the ratchet effect of defense expenditures.
- recency effect — the phenomenon that when people are asked to recall in any order the items on a list, those that come at the end of the list are more likely to be recalled than the others
- rural district — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and Northern Ireland from 1898 to 1973) a rural division of a county
- saint benedict — Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
- scalar product — inner product (def 1).
- scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
- scsi reconnect — (hardware) The ability of a SCSI initiator to initiate new transactions before earlier ones have completed. A target or initiator can disconnect from the bus when it experiences a delay in completing a task so that another device can use the bus. It can reconnect later and complete the task.
- seebeck effect — thermoelectric effect.
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