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15-letter words containing a, l, n, i, t, e

  • italian jasmine — an evergreen shrub, Jasminum humile, of the olive family, having fragrant, golden-yellow flowers.
  • italian sausage — salami
  • italian spinone — a strongly-built gun dog with a wiry white coat and pendulous ears
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • javelin thrower — a person who throws a javelin
  • jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
  • jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
  • justifiableness — Justifiability.
  • kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • labor relations — worker-employer relationship
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
  • lake mistassini — a lake in E Canada, in N Quebec: the largest lake in the province; drains through the Rupert River into James Bay. Area: 2175 sq km (840 sq miles). Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
  • lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
  • lake tanganyika — a lake in central Africa between Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo, bordering also on Burundi and Zambia, in the Great Rift Valley: the longest freshwater lake in the world. Area: 32 893 sq km (12 700 sq miles). Length: 676 km (420 miles)
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • lake-saint-john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
  • large intestine — intestine (def 3).
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
  • late in the day — in the evening
  • latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
  • latent function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is unintentional and often unrecognized.
  • latent learning — learning mediated neither by reward nor by the expectation of reward
  • lateral moraine — a moraine formed at the side of a glacier.
  • lateran council — any of the five ecumenical councils (1123, 1139, 1179, 1215, 1512–17) held in the Lateran Palace.
  • latino-american — an American who is of Latin-American or Spanish origin
  • law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
  • lay on the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • lazy evaluation — (reduction)   An evaluation strategy combining normal order evaluation with updating. Under normal order evaluation (outermost or call-by-name evaluation) an expression is evaluated only when its value is needed in order for the program to return (the next part of) its result. Updating means that if an expression's value is needed more than once (i.e. it is shared), the result of the first evaluation is remembered and subsequent requests for it will return the remembered value immediately without further evaluation. This is often implemented by graph reduction. An unevaluated expression is represented as a closure - a data structure containing all the information required to evaluate the expression. Lazy evaluation is one evaluation strategy used to implement non-strict functions. Function arguments may be infinite data structures (especially lists) of values, the components of which are evaluated as needed. According to Phil Wadler the term was invented by Jim Morris. Opposite: eager evaluation. A partial kind of lazy evaluation implements lazy data structures or especially lazy lists where function arguments are passed evaluated but the arguments of data constructors are not evaluated.
  • leading article — Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.
  • leading strings — strings or straps formerly used to guide and support a young child learning to walk
  • lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
  • learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
  • least sandpiper — a small, American sandpiper, Calidris minutilla, related to the stints of Europe.
  • leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • lesser antilles — group of islands in the West Indies, southeast of Puerto Rico, including the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, & the islands off the N coast of Venezuela
  • lethal mutation — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
  • lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
  • liberalizations — Plural form of liberalization.
  • library edition — an edition of a book prepared for library use, especially with a library binding.
  • lichenification — a leathery hardening of the skin, usually caused by chronic irritation.
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • lie of the land — the topography of the land
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