13-letter words containing a, c, e, l, r, n
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- energetically — In an energetic manner.
- entrance hall — large lobby, foyer
- epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
- ergonomically — In an ergonomic manner.
- ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
- excoriatingly — So as to excoriate.
- excrescential — Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
- extrinsically — In an extrinsic manner.
- fat electrons — (electronics, humour) Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the cause of computer glitches. Your typical electricity company draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the *bottom* of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or "thin" electrons, but the fat sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. Compare bogon, magic smoke.
- fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
- fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications) An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
- floor furnace — a small self-contained furnace placed just below the floor of the space to be heated.
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
- funeral march — march played for funeral processions
- gallo-romance — the vernacular language, a development from Latin, spoken in France from about a.d. 600 to 900. Abbreviation: Gallo-Rom.
- galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
- general costs — the general expenses of running a business
- general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
- general magic — A software company based in Mountain View, California. Products released in 1994 after four years in development include: Telescript - a communications-oriented programming language; Magic Cap - an OOPS designed for PDAs; and a new, third generation GUI. Motorola's Envoy, due for release in the third quarter of 1994, will use Magic Cap as its OS. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols. Competitors for Magic Cap include Microsoft's Windows for Pens/Winpad, PenPoint, Apple Computer's Newton Intelligence and GEOS by GeoWorks.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- gracelessness — The state of being graceless.
- grand larceny — larceny in which the value of the goods taken is above a certain legally specified amount.
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
- great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
- green channel — the route followed in passing through customs in an airport, etc by passengers claiming to have no dutiable goods to declare
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- halotolerance — The quality or degree of being halotolerant.
- health center — medical clinic
- health centre — A health centre is a building in which a group of doctors have offices or surgeries where their patients can visit them.
- hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
- Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
- in triplicate — in three copies, times three
- inappreciable — imperceptible; insignificant: an inappreciable difference.
- inappreciably — In an inappreciable manner.
- inarticulated — Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- inconquerable — That cannot be conquered; unconquerable.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- inconversable — (obsolete) uncommunicative; reserved.
- incorporeally — In an incorporeal manner.
- incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
- incrementally — increasing or adding on, especially in a regular series: small, incremental tax hikes.