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14-letter words containing ace

  • keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
  • keep the peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
  • lambeth palace — the official residence of the archbishop of Canterbury, in Lambeth.
  • lateran palace — a palace in Rome used as the papal residence from the 4th century a.d. to the removal of the papal court to Avignon, rebuilt in 1586, and now a museum for classical and Christian antiques.
  • lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
  • margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
  • marrons glaces — chestnuts cooked in syrup and glazed
  • melamine-faced — having a thin melamine layer on one or more faces
  • melastomaceous — belonging to the family Melastomataceae (also known as Melastomaceae)
  • methyl acetate — a colorless, flammable, volatile liquid, C 3 H 6 O 2 , the methyl ester of acetic acid, having a fragrant odor, used chiefly as a solvent.
  • negative space — shape of space around an object
  • nickel acetate — a green, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 4 H 6 NiO 4 , used chiefly in nickel-plating.
  • nonsuch palace — a former royal palace in Cuddington in London: built in 1538 for Henry VIII; later visited by Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II; demolished (1682–1702)
  • nutraceuticals — Plural form of nutraceutical.
  • nyctaginaceous — belonging to the Nyctaginaceae, the four-o'clock family of plants.
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • one-horse race — if a contest is described as a one-horse race, it is thought that one person or thing will definitely win it
  • orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
  • papilionaceous — having an irregular corolla shaped somewhat like a butterfly, as the pea and other leguminous plants.
  • peace activist — someone who advocates for peace or an end to conflicts
  • peace campaign — a campaign for peace or an end to conflict
  • peace dividend — money cut by a government from its defense budget as a result of the cessation of hostilities with other countries.
  • peace movement — a movement seeking to end wars and reduce nuclear weapons
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • pearl necklace — jewelry: string of pearls
  • pennatulaceous — of or relating to a sea pen
  • pentyl acetate — a colourless combustible liquid used as a solvent for paints, in the extraction of penicillin, in photographic film, and as a flavouring. Formula: CH3COOC5H11
  • personal space — the variable and subjective distance at which one person feels comfortable talking to another.
  • pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
  • phenyl acetate — a colorless, water-insoluble liquid, C 8 H 8 O 2 , having a phenolic odor: used chiefly as a solvent.
  • placebo effect — a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
  • placement test — a test to determine a student's level of ability in one or more subjects in order to place the student with others of the same approximate ability.
  • play one's ace — to use one's best weapon or resource
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
  • portulacaceous — belonging to the Portulacaceae, the purslane family of plants.
  • pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
  • quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
  • 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.
  • race relations — relationships between races
  • ranunculaceous — belonging to the Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family of plants.
  • replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
  • saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
  • saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
  • scotch furnace — ore hearth.
  • scsi interface — SCSI adaptor
  • shamefacedness — modest or bashful.
  • showplace home — a historic house
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