19-letter words containing a, l, i, g, t, o
- horizontal drilling — Horizontal drilling is drilling in which the direction of the wellbore is more than 80 degrees from the vertical.
- horizontal encoding — (processor) An instruction set where each field (a bit or group of bits) in an instruction word controls some functional unit or gate directly, as opposed to vertical encoding where instruction fields are decoded (by hard-wired logic or microcode) to produce the control signals. Horizontal encoding allows all possible combinations of control signals (and therefore operations) to be expressed as instructions whereas vertical encoding uses a shorter instruction word but can only encode those combinations of operations built into the decoding logic. An instruction set may use a mixture of horizontal and vertical encoding within each instruction. Because an architecture using horizontal encoding typically requires more instruction word bits it is sometimes known as a very long instruction word (VLIW) architecture.
- humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
- hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
- immigration control — a method or methods for regulating border laws and immigration
- information algebra — Theoretical formalism for DP, never resulted in a language. Language Structure Group of CODASYL, ca. 1962. Sammet 1969, 709.
- intangible property — intellectual property, rights ownership
- islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
- jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
- jumping plant louse — any of numerous lice, of the family Psyllidae, that feed on plant juices and are sometimes pests of fruits and vegetables.
- kellogg-briand pact — a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and urging peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes, originally signed in 1928 by 15 nations, later joined by 49 others.
- kirlian photography — a photographic process that supposedly records electrical discharges naturally emanating from living objects, producing an auralike glow surrounding the object on a photographic plate or film with which the object is in direct contact.
- knights hospitalers — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- ladies-of-the-night — plural of lady-of-the-night.
- lady of the evening — a prostitute.
- lagrangian function — kinetic potential.
- late-night shopping — later opening hours of shops than usual, esp as a regular occurrence on a particular night of the week
- leading coefficient — the coefficient of the term of highest degree in a given polynomial. 5 is the leading coefficient in 5 x 3 + 3 x 2 − 2 x + 1.
- left-luggage office — a checkroom for baggage.
- legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
- let it all hang out — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- liberation theology — a 20th-century Christian theology, emphasizing the Biblical and doctrinal theme of liberation from oppression, whether racial, sexual, economic, or political.
- lieutenant governor — a state officer next in rank to a governor, who takes the governor's place in case of the latter's absence, disability, or death.
- load-bearing printf — (programming, humour) The kind of bug present in a program which works correctly when producing debug output but fails when the debugging is turned off. The expression combines load-bearing wall and printf as used in debugging by printf.
- logical shift right — logical shift
- logical unit number — (storage) (LUN) A 3-bit identifier used on a SCSI bus to distinguish between up to eight devices (logical units) with the same SCSI ID.
- longitudinal parity — (storage, communications) An extra byte (or word) appended to a block of data in order to reveal corruption of the data. Bit n of this byte indicates whether there was an even or odd number of "1" bits in bit position n of the bytes in the block. The parity byte is computed by XORing the data bytes in the block. Longitudinal parity allows single bit errors to be detected.
- love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
- magnetic levitation — the suspension of an object above or below a second object by means of magnetic repulsion or attraction.
- magnetic north pole — the point on Earth to where a compass needle points, and which is situated near the geographic North Pole. However, with time, the exact location can vary.
- main-topgallantmast — the mast next above the main-topmast.
- malice aforethought — a predetermination to commit an unlawful act without just cause or provocation (applied chiefly to cases of first-degree murder).
- meningoencephalitic — Relating to meningoencephalitis.
- meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
- midnight regulation — a rule or directive approved by the federal government near the end of a president’s term of office
- military government — a government in defeated territory administered by the military commander of a conquering nation.
- molecular biologist — a specialist in the study of biological phenomena at the molecular level
- multiplication sign — Arithmetic. the symbol (⋅), (×), or (∗) between two mathematical expressions, denoting multiplication of the second expression by the first. In certain algebraic notations the sign is suppressed and multiplication is indicated by immediate juxtaposition or contiguity, as in ab.
- napierian logarithm — natural logarithm.
- national government — A national government is a government with members from more than one political party, especially one that is formed during a crisis.
- negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
- neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
- niagara-on-the-lake — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River, on the border between Canada and New York.
- non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- not by a long sight — on no account; not at all
- old english pattern — a spoon pattern having a stem curving backward at the end.
- operational testing — (testing) A US DoD term for testing performed by the end-user on software in its normal operating environment.
- oscillating circuit — a circuit producing electrical oscillations.
- otorhinolaryngology — otolaryngology.
- paleoanthropologist — the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains.