11-letter words containing a, l, u
- agglutinate — to adhere or cause to adhere, as with glue
- agglutinins — Plural form of agglutinin.
- agony uncle — a man who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column
- agranulosis — (rare) agranulocytosis.
- agriculture — Agriculture is farming and the methods that are used to raise and look after crops and animals.
- aiguillette — an ornamentation worn by certain military officers, consisting of cords with metal tips
- ailanthuses — Plural form of ailanthus.
- ailurophile — a person who likes cats
- ailurophobe — a person who dislikes or is afraid of cats
- air quality — the composition of the air in terms of how much pollution it contains
- air shuttle — a shuttle service operated by aircraft, usually covering short routes with frequent flights
- al hudaydah — a city in W Yemen, on the Red Sea.
- 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.
- albugineous — related to or resembling the white of an egg
- album chart — a regular listing of bestselling record albums
- album cover — the front of the outer packaging of a record album, usually decorated and showing its title and the name of the artist
- 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
- albuquerque — a city in central New Mexico, on the Rio Grande. Pop: 471 856 (2003 est)
- aleggeaunce — the alleviation of grief or a burden
- aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
- alfred lunt — Alfred, 1893–1977, U.S. actor (husband of Lynn Fontanne).
- algophagous — feeding on algae, as certain insects.
- 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.
- alkyl group — any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula C n H 2n+1 , derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons, as the methyl group, CH 3 −, or ethyl group, C 2 H 5 −.
- all ends up — totally or completely
- all get-out — used in comparisons to intensify an adjective
- all up with — over; finished
- all-purpose — You use all-purpose to refer to things that have lots of different uses or can be used in lots of different situations.
- all-rounder — Someone who is an all-rounder is good at a lot of different skills, academic subjects, or sports.
- allocutions — Plural form of allocution.
- allopurinol — a synthetic drug that reduces blood concentrations of uric acid and is administered orally in the treatment of gout. Formula: C5H4N4O
- allotropous — (of flowers) having the nectar accessible to any species of insect
- allurements — Plural form of allurement.
- allyl group — the univalent group C 3 H 5 , derived from propylene.
- alpha mummy — a woman who excels in the art of motherhood
- alpha tauri — Aldebaran
- alt.country — a genre of country music originating in the 1990s and influenced by both early country music and contemporary rock music
- alt.sources — (messaging, programming) A Usenet newsgroup for posting program source code.
- altazimuths — Plural form of altazimuth.
- altiloquent — (of language) high-flown or pretentious.
- altitudinal — relating to altitude or height.
- altocumulus — a globular cloud at an intermediate height of about 2400 to 6000 metres (8000 to 20 000 feet)