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11-letter words containing a, l, n

  • agonizingly — accompanied by, filled with, or resulting in agony or distress: We spent an agonizing hour waiting to hear if the accident had been serious or not.
  • agony uncle — a man who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column
  • agranulosis — (rare) agranulocytosis.
  • agronomical — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
  • ailanthuses — Plural form of ailanthus.
  • aimlessness — The state or quality of being aimless, or without purpose or direction.
  • air cleaner — a filter that prevents dust and other particles from entering the air-intake of an internal-combustion engine
  • airlessness — The state or condition of being poorly ventilated; lacking good air circulation, having stale air.
  • 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".
  • albategnius — Latin name of Battani.
  • albendazole — An antiparasitic anthelmintic used especially against the larvae of tapeworms.
  • albert nile — a river in NW Uganda: part of the upper Nile River.
  • 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
  • alcalescent — Alternative spelling of alkalescent.
  • 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.
  • alchemizing — Present participle of alchemize.
  • 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
  • aldermaston — a village in S England, in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire, SW of Reading: site of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and starting point of the Aldermaston marches (1958–63), organized by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Pop: 927 (2001)
  • alderperson — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
  • aldopentose — a monosaccharide with five carbon atoms
  • aldosterone — the principal mineralocorticoid secreted by the adrenal cortex. A synthesized form is used in the treatment of Addison's disease. Formula: C21H27O5
  • aleggeaunce — the alleviation of grief or a burden
  • alendronate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of alendronic acid.
  • 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)
  • aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
  • alexander i — c. 1080–1124, king of Scotland (1107–24), son of Malcolm III
  • alexander v — 1340?–1410, Cretan ecclesiastic: pope 1409–10.
  • 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
  • alfonso xii — 1857–85, king of Spain 1874–85.
  • alfred lunt — Alfred, 1893–1977, U.S. actor (husband of Lynn Fontanne).
  • alfven wave — a generally transverse magnetohydrodynamic wave that is propagated in a plasma
  • 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.
  • alienatedly — In an alienated way.
  • alimentally — So as to serve for nourishment or food.
  • alkalescent — developing alkaline qualities
  • alkalifying — Present participle of alkalify.
  • alkanethiol — any compound containing an alkyl group joined to a mercapto group, as methyl mercaptan or methanethiol, CH 3 SH.
  • alkyd resin — any synthetic resin made from a dicarboxylic acid, such as phthalic acid, and diols or triols: used in paints and adhesives
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