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11-letter words containing a, l, i

  • air vesicle — a large air-filled intercellular space in some aquatic plants
  • air waybill — a document made out by the consignor of goods by air freight giving details of the goods and the name of the consignee
  • airlessness — The state or condition of being poorly ventilated; lacking good air circulation, having stale air.
  • airwaybills — Plural form of airwaybill.
  • al-ghazzali — Ghazzali.
  • alabastrine — a finely granular variety of gypsum, often white and translucent, used for ornamental objects or work, such as lamp bases, figurines, etc.
  • alan turing — (person)   Alan M. Turing, 1912-06-22/3? - 1954-06-07. A British mathematician, inventor of the Turing Machine. Turing also proposed the Turing test. Turing's work was fundamental in the theoretical foundations of computer science. Turing was a student and fellow of King's College Cambridge and was a graduate student at Princeton University from 1936 to 1938. While at Princeton Turing published "On Computable Numbers", a paper in which he conceived an abstract machine, now called a Turing Machine. Turing returned to England in 1938 and during World War II, he worked in the British Foreign Office. He masterminded operations at Bletchley Park, UK which were highly successful in cracking the Nazis "Enigma" codes during World War II. Some of his early advances in computer design were inspired by the need to perform many repetitive symbolic manipulations quickly. Before the building of the Colossus computer this work was done by a roomful of women. In 1945 he joined the National Physical Laboratory in London and worked on the design and construction of a large computer, named Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). In 1949 Turing became deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester where the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, the worlds largest memory computer, was being built. He also worked on theories of artificial intelligence, and on the application of mathematical theory to biological forms. In 1952 he published the first part of his theoretical study of morphogenesis, the development of pattern and form in living organisms. Turing was gay, and died rather young under mysterious circumstances. He was arrested for violation of British homosexuality statutes in 1952. He died of potassium cyanide poisoning while conducting electrolysis experiments. An inquest concluded that it was self-administered but it is now thought by some to have been an accident. There is an excellent biography of Turing by Andrew Hodges, subtitled "The Enigma of Intelligence" and a play based on it called "Breaking the Code". There was also a popular summary of his work in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach".
  • alaska time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
  • albategnius — Latin name of Battani.
  • albert nile — a river in NW Uganda: part of the upper Nile River.
  • albertville — former name of Kalemie.
  • albugineous — related to or resembling the white of an egg
  • albumenized — Simple past tense and past participle of albumenize.
  • albuminemia — (pathology) The (normal) presence of albumin in the blood.
  • albuminized — Simple past tense and past participle of albuminize.
  • albuminoids — any of a class of simple proteins, as keratin, gelatin, or collagen, that are insoluble in all neutral solvents; scleroprotein.
  • albuminuria — the presence of albumin in the urine
  • albuminuric — related to the state of albuminuria
  • alcaligenes — any of several rod-shaped aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Alcaligenes, found in the intestinal tract of humans and other vertebrates and in dairy products.
  • alchemistic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
  • alchemizing — Present participle of alchemize.
  • alcoholized — Simple past tense and past participle of alcoholize.
  • alcoholysis — chemical decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an alcohol.
  • alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
  • aldermanity — the body of aldermen
  • alembicated — (of a literary style) excessively refined; precious
  • aleppo pine — a pine tree, Pinus halepensis, native to the Mediterranean area, that is planted as an ornamental and is a source of turpentine.
  • alessandria — a town in NW Italy, in Piedmont. Pop: 85 438 (2001)
  • alethiology — the branch of logic dealing with truth and error.
  • alexander i — c. 1080–1124, king of Scotland (1107–24), son of Malcolm III
  • alexandrian — of or relating to Alexander the Great
  • alexandrina — a female given name, form of Alexandra.
  • alexandrine — a line of verse having six iambic feet, usually with a caesura after the third foot
  • alexandrite — a green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone
  • alexithymia — an inability to recognize, understand, and describe emotions
  • alfilerilla — Alt form alfilaria.
  • alfonso xii — 1857–85, king of Spain 1874–85.
  • algesimeter — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
  • algin fiber — an alkali-soluble fiber produced by injecting a fine stream of alkaline algin into an aqueous solution of a metallic salt, used chiefly in the manufacture of fine threads.
  • algological — Of or pertaining to algology.
  • algophilist — Person who is subject to algophilia; person who enjoys pain and gets sexual pleasure from it.
  • algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
  • alienatedly — In an alienated way.
  • alimentally — So as to serve for nourishment or food.
  • alismaceous — of or relating to the genus Alisma
  • aliturgical — designating those days on which the celebration of certain liturgies, especially the Eucharist, is forbidden.
  • alkali blue — any of the class of blue pigments having the highest tinting strength, by weight, of all known blue pigments: used chiefly in the manufacture of printing inks.
  • alkali flat — an arid plain encrusted with alkaline salts derived from the streams draining into it
  • alkali rock — any igneous rock with a marked preponderance of alkali and a low percentage of silica.
  • alkali soil — a soil that gives a pH reaction of 8.5 or above, found esp in dry areas where the soluble salts, esp of sodium, have not been leached away but have accumulated in the B horizon of the soil profile
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