14-letter words containing a, l, c, i, d
- idiopathically — In an idiopathic sense or manner.
- idle character — a transmitted control character that holds a position but does not appear in the output at the receiver.
- Île de la cité — a natural island in the river Seine, in the centre of the city of Paris, France, the Île de la Cité is the location where the medieval city was refounded
- immethodically — Unmethodically.
- incandescently — (of light) produced by incandescence.
- inclined plane — one of the simple machines, a plane surface inclined to the horizon, or forming with a horizontal plane any angle but a right angle. Compare machine (def 4b).
- inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
- inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
- indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
- indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- indelicateness — The quality of being indelicate; indelicacy.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
- indian sanicle — a North American boneset, Eupatorium rugosum, that has heads of white flowers and causes trembles and milk sickness.
- indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- insecticidally — in an insecticidal manner
- inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
- interdialectal — relating to, or existing between, different dialects
- intracardially — in an intracardial manner
- isla de pascua — Spanish name of Easter Island.
- isodiametrical — isodiametric
- issued capital — the shares of a company that have been sold or distributed
- juridical days — days on which the courts are in session
- jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- lacrimal gland — either of two tear-secreting glands situated in the upper outer angle of the orbit.
- landing beacon — a radio transmitter that emits a landing beam
- larixinic acid — maltol.
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
- latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
- lattice defect — defect (def 3).
- lattice girder — a trusslike girder having the upper and lower chords connected by latticing.
- lattice window — a window formed of an open framework of wood, metal, etc, arranged to form an ornamental pattern
- lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
- legal medicine — the application of medical knowledge to questions of civil and criminal law, especially in court proceedings.
- levulinic acid — a white or colorless, water-soluble solid, C 5 H 8 O 3 , produced by the hydrolysis of cane sugar, starch, or cellulose; used chiefly in the organic synthesis of nylon, plastics, and pharmaceuticals.
- 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.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- linolenic acid — colourless unsaturated essential fatty acid
- liquid compass — wet compass.
- liquid crystal — a liquid having certain crystalline characteristics, especially different optical properties in different directions when exposed to an electric field.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- little richard — (Richard Wayne Penniman) born 1932, U.S. rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist.
- 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.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
- mainland china — the People's Republic of China, as distinguished from Taiwan.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.