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15-letter words containing a, m, l

  • job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
  • judicial murder — the unjustified execution of the death penalty
  • jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
  • juvenal plumage — the first plumage of birds, composed of contour feathers, which in certain species follows the naked nestling stage and in other species follows the molt of natal down.
  • juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
  • kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
  • kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
  • karl-marx-stadt — former name (1953–90) of Chemnitz.
  • kelmscott manor — a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris
  • kernmantel rope — a rope made of many straight nylon fibres within a plaited sheath; used for its tensile strength, freedom from twisting, and elasticity
  • kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
  • lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
  • 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)
  • lamb's-quarters — the pigweed, Chenopodium album.
  • lambda calculus — a formalized description of functions and the way in which they combine, developed by Alonzo Church and used in the theory of certain high-level programming languages
  • lambda particle — any of a family of neutral baryons with strangeness −1 or charm +1, and isotopic spin 0. The least massive member of the lambda family was the first strange particle to be discovered. Symbol: Λ.
  • lambda-b baryon — a protonlike baryon containing a b quark; a neutral baryon with a mass 11,000 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.1 X 10 -12 seconds.
  • lambda-c baryon — a positively charged baryon with a mean lifetime of approximately 2.1 X 10 -13 seconds.
  • lambda-calculus — (mathematics)   (Normally written with a Greek letter lambda). A branch of mathematical logic developed by Alonzo Church in the late 1930s and early 1940s, dealing with the application of functions to their arguments. The pure lambda-calculus contains no constants - neither numbers nor mathematical functions such as plus - and is untyped. It consists only of lambda abstractions (functions), variables and applications of one function to another. All entities must therefore be represented as functions. For example, the natural number N can be represented as the function which applies its first argument to its second N times (Church integer N). Church invented lambda-calculus in order to set up a foundational project restricting mathematics to quantities with "effective procedures". Unfortunately, the resulting system admits Russell's paradox in a particularly nasty way; Church couldn't see any way to get rid of it, and gave the project up. Most functional programming languages are equivalent to lambda-calculus extended with constants and types. Lisp uses a variant of lambda notation for defining functions but only its purely functional subset is really equivalent to lambda-calculus. See reduction.
  • laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
  • lamino-alveolar — articulated with the blade of the tongue approaching the alveolar ridge.
  • lamp-post error — fencepost error
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • laptop computer — portable computer
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • laser treatment — any of various medical and surgical techniques using lasers, such as the removal of small growths
  • lateral moraine — a moraine formed at the side of a glacier.
  • latino-american — an American who is of Latin-American or Spanish origin
  • lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
  • law of the mean — the theorem that for a function continuous on a closed interval and differentiable on the corresponding open interval, there is a point in the interval such that the difference in functional values at the endpoints is equal to the derivative evaluated at the particular point and multiplied by the difference in the endpoints.
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
  • lemon socialism — the policy of a government in a nominally free-market country of bailing out large failing private companies with taxpayers’ money
  • lemon-grass oil — a yellowish to brownish oil distilled from the leaves of certain lemon grasses, especially Cymbopogon citratus, used chiefly in perfumery.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • lethal mutation — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • leukaemogenesis — the development of leukaemia
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
  • lexical meaning — the meaning of a base morpheme.
  • liability limit — the highest amount that a liability insurer will pay on a single claim.
  • liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • limited partner — special partner.
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