14-letter words containing a, i, m
- intermigration — reciprocal migration; interchange of habitat by migrating groups.
- intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
- intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- internal rhyme — a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse.
- interracialism — action or policy for establishing equality and cooperation between different racial groups.
- intersegmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
- intervalometer — an automatic device for operating the shutter of a camera at regular intervals, as in making aerial photographs.
- intimidatingly — In an intimidating manner.
- intraabdominal — Within the cavity of the abdomen.
- intramedullary — located within the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, or bone marrow
- intramercurial — within Mercury's orbit
- intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
- intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
- intrapulmonary — (anatomy) Within the material of the lungs.
- intuitionalism — intuitionism.
- inverted comma — quotation mark.
- iris diaphragm — a composite diaphragm with a central aperture readily adjustable for size, used to regulate the amount of light admitted to a lens or optical system.
- irremovability — The quality or state of being irremovable.
- islas malvinas — Falkland Islands
- isodiametrical — isodiametric
- isomorphically — In an isomorphic manner.
- isthmian games — one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth.
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- jackknife clam — any bivalve mollusk of the family Solenidae, especially of the genus Ensis, having a long, rectangular, slightly curved shell.
- jamaica ginger — an alcoholic extract of ginger used as a flavoring.
- joint mortgage — a loan of money from a bank or building society to buy a house which two or more people are jointly responsible for repaying
- jonker diamond — a noted diamond weighing 726 carats, discovered in the Transvaal in 1934 and cut into 12 pieces.
- journal intime — a personal or private diary.
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- kalamata olive — a purplish-black, almond-shaped olive with a fruity flavor and meaty texture, often split and cured in brine and packed in vinegar.
- kapellmeisters — Plural form of kapellmeister.
- karnatak music — the classical music of South India
- khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
- kidney machine — artificial kidney.
- kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
- kilogram-meter — a meter-kilogram-second unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one kilogram when its point of application moves through a distance of one meter in the direction of the force; approximately 7.2 foot-pounds. Abbreviation: kg-m.
- kinematic pair — pair1 (def 10).
- kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
- kleptomaniacal — Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.
- knight templar — Templar.
- laat lammetjie — a child born many years after its siblings
- lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
- lacrimal gland — either of two tear-secreting glands situated in the upper outer angle of the orbit.
- lake champlain — a lake in the northeastern US, between the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains: linked by the Champlain Canal to the Hudson River and by the Richelieu River to the St Lawrence; a major communications route in colonial times
- lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
- lake trasimene — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria: the largest lake in central Italy; scene of Hannibal's victory over the Romans in 217 bc. Area: 128 sq km (49 sq miles)
- lambda lifting — A program transformation to remove free variables. An expression containing a free variable is replaced by a function applied to that variable. E.g. f x = g 3 where g y = y + x x is a free variable of g so it is added as an extra argument: f x = g 3 x where g y x = y + x Functions like this with no free variables are known as supercombinators and are traditionally given upper-case names beginning with "$". This transformation tends to produce many supercombinators of the form f x = g x which can be eliminated by eta reduction and substitution. Changing the order of the parameters may also allow more optimisations. References to global (top-level) constants and functions are not transformed to function parameters though they are technically free variables. A closely related technique is closure conversion. See also Full laziness.
- lamellirostral — having a beak equipped with thin plates or lamellae for straining water and mud from food, as the ducks, geese, swans, and flamingos.
- lap microphone — a small microphone that may be clipped to the speaker's lapel, pocket, or the like.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.