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14-letter words containing a, l, n, i, g

  • lapsus linguae — a slip of the tongue.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • laryngological — Of or pertaining to laryngology.
  • laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • last knockings — the final stage of a period or activity
  • lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
  • lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
  • laughing hyena — an African hyena, Crocuta crocuta, having a yellowish-gray coat with brown or black spots, noted for its distinctive howl.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
  • leading rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable but junior to that of a corporal in the army
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • legal medicine — the application of medical knowledge to questions of civil and criminal law, especially in court proceedings.
  • legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
  • legitimatizing — Present participle of legitimatize.
  • legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
  • legitimization — to make legitimate.
  • lemon geranium — a garden geranium, Pelargonium crispum, having lemon-scented leaves.
  • lemongrass oil — an aromatic oil made from lemon grass and used in aromatherapy, as a pesticide, and as a preservative
  • leptomeningeal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the leptomeninges.
  • letting agency — a business which leases properties on behalf of their owners
  • lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
  • licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
  • lichenological — relating to lichenology
  • life-affirming — A life-affirming activity or attitude emphasizes the positive aspects of life.
  • life-enhancing — If you describe something as life-enhancing, you mean that it makes you feel happier and more content.
  • light infantry — foot soldiers with lightweight weapons and minimal field equipment.
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • line engraving — a technique of engraving in which all effects are produced by variations in the width and density of lines incised with a burin.
  • line-engraving — a technique of engraving in which all effects are produced by variations in the width and density of lines incised with a burin.
  • linear algebra — the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations.
  • linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
  • linkage editor — linker
  • linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
  • literary agent — a person who manages the business affairs of an author
  • living bandage — a method of treating severe burns or other skin injuries in which cultured cells grown from a sample of the patient's own skin are applied to the wound in order to stimulate new cell growth and avoid problems of graft rejection
  • 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.
  • logania family — the plant family Loganiaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs of warm regions having usually opposite leaves, clusters of regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or fleshy fruit, and including the butterfly bush, Carolina jessamine, logania, and trees of the genus Strychnos, which are the source of curare, nux vomica, and strychnine.
  • logical syntax — syntactics.
  • longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
  • lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
  • lothian region — a former local government region in SE central Scotland, formed in 1975 from East Lothian, most of Midlothian, and West Lothian; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Edinburgh
  • lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
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