14-letter words containing a, l, i, n, c, g
- licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
- lichenological — relating to lichenology
- life-enhancing — If you describe something as life-enhancing, you mean that it makes you feel happier and more content.
- light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
- linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
- 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.
- logical syntax — syntactics.
- lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- 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.
- magnetooptical — Having both magnetic and optical elements.
- mail exchanger — (messaging) A server running SMTP Message Transfer Agent software that accepts incoming electronic mail and either delivers it locally or forwards it to another server. The mail exchanger to use for a given domain can be discovered by querying DNS for Mail Exchange Records.
- malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- marginal hacks — (humour) Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
- megalomaniacal — a person afflicted with megalomania.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
- metallogenetic — metallogenic
- miscalculating — Present participle of miscalculate.
- misclassifying — Present participle of misclassify.
- modelling clay — mouldable substance fixed in a kiln
- morganatically — In a morganatic manner.
- mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
- narratological — of or relating to narratology
- neurogenically — by neural activity
- neurologically — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- nickel-plating — the process of depositing a thin layer of nickel on a surface, usually by electrolysis
- non-coalescing — to unite so as to form one mass, community, etc.: The various groups coalesced into a crowd.
- non-cognizable — capable of being perceived or known.
- non-congenital — having by nature a specified character: a congenital fool.
- non-liturgical — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
- non-logistical — of or relating to logistics.
- noncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- noncirculating — not circulating
- nongeometrical — not geometrical
- nongrammatical — (of a sentence or expression) not conforming to the grammatical rules of a given language.
- nonideological — Unaffiliated with or unrelated to ideology.
- nontheological — not theological, not having theological content
- normoglycaemia — the condition of having a normal blood sugar level
- normoglycaemic — Alt form normoglycemic.
- online catalog — a bibliographic record of a library's holdings, available in machine-readable form.
- organochlorine — Any of a large group of pesticides and other synthetic organic compounds with chlorinated aromatic molecules.
- organometallic — pertaining to or noting an organic compound containing a metal or a metalloid linked to carbon.
- ornithological — the branch of zoology that deals with birds.
- osteogenically — By osteogenesis.
- paralinguistic — of or relating to paralanguage or paralinguistics.
- parcel gilding — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
- phenologically — in a phenological manner
- planetological — involving or relating to planetology