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14-letter words containing a, b, i, n

  • landing beacon — a radio transmitter that emits a landing beam
  • latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century b.c. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
  • liberal-minded — espousing liberal views and policies
  • liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
  • liberalization — (US) The process or act of making more liberal.
  • libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
  • linear algebra — the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
  • living bandage — a method of treating severe burns or other skin injuries in which cultured cells grown from a sample of the patient's own skin are applied to the wound in order to stimulate new cell growth and avoid problems of graft rejection
  • load balancing — (operating system, parallel)   Techniques which aim to spread tasks among the processors in a parallel processor to avoid some processors being idle while others have tasks queueing for execution. Load balancing may be performed either by heavily loaded processors (with many tasks in their queues) sending tasks to other processors; by idle processors requesting work from others; by some centralised task distribution mechanism; or some combination of these. Some systems allow tasks to be moved after they have started executing ("task migration") others do not. It is important that the overhead of executing the load balancing algorithm does not contribute significantly to the overall processing or communications load. Distributed scheduling algorithms may be static, dynamic or preemptive. Static algorithms allocate processes to processors at run time while taking no account of current network load. Dynamic algorithms are more flexible, though more computationally expensive, and give some consideration to the network load before allocating the new process to a processor. Preemptive algorithms are more expensive and flexible still, and may migrate running processes from one host to another if deemed beneficial. Research to date indicates that dynamic algorithms yield significant performance benefits, but that further (though lesser) gains may be had through the addition of process migration facilities.
  • lobotomization — to perform a lobotomy on.
  • lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • make a bargain — to agree on terms
  • malleable iron — malleable cast iron.
  • man-made fibre — a type of fibre that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
  • manipulability — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
  • manitoba maple — a Canadian fast-growing variety of maple
  • marine biology — science of sea life
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
  • methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
  • mexican bamboo — a hardy plant, Polygonum cuspidatum, of the buckwheat family, native to Japan, having small, greenish-white flowers and tending to escape from cultivation.
  • mills-and-boon — of or relating to novels by the British publisher Mills and Boon, esp in being romantic or sexual in nature
  • misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • misremembrance — An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
  • mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • mobile canteen — a truck or lorry with kitchen facilities that can be used on site, such as on a film set, construction site, as a soup kitchen, etc
  • mobile command — the Canadian army and other land forces
  • monocarboxylic — containing one carboxyl group.
  • morbid anatomy — the branch of medical science concerned with the study of the structure of diseased organs and tissues
  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
  • municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
  • napalm bombing — the act of attacking with napalm bombs
  • napier's bones — a form of multiplication table originally marked on sticks of bone or ivory that could be rearranged to carry out the operations of multiplication or division.
  • natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
  • navigation bar — (web)   (Always abbreviated "nav bar") On a website, a prominently displayed set of links to important sections of the site.
  • needle bearing — an antifriction roller bearing in which long rollers of very small diameter fill the race without a cage to provide spacers between them
  • negri sembilan — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 2580 sq. mi. (6682 sq. km). Capital: Seremban.
  • neurofibromata — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
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