20-letter words containing a, n, d, l

hospitality industry — the hotel and accommodation industry
hot under the collar — the part of a shirt, coat, dress, blouse, etc., that encompasses the neckline of the garment and is sewn permanently to it, often so as to fold or roll over.
household appliances — devices or machines, usually electrical, that are in your home and which you use to do jobs such as cleaning or cooking
hudson's bay blanket — a woollen blanket with wide stripes
hydraulic fracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
hydraulic suspension — a system of motor-vehicle suspension using hydraulic members, often with hydraulic compensation between front and rear systems (hydroelastic suspension)
hydrodesulfurization — desulfurization by catalytic agents of the sulfur-rich hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum or the like during cracking or hydrocracking.
ideal of pure reason — God, seen as an idea of pure reason unifying the personal soul with the cosmos.
in flagrante delicto — Law. in the very act of committing the offense.
in the public domain — able to be discussed and examined freely by the general public
incomplete dominance — the appearance in a heterozygote of a trait that is intermediate between either of the trait's homozygous phenotypes.
incremental recorder — a device for recording data as it is generated, usually on paper tape or magnetic tape, and feeding it into a computer
independent variable — Mathematics. a variable in a functional relation whose value determines the value or values of other variables, as x in the relation y = 3 x 2 . Compare dependent variable (def 1).
indistinguishability — The state of being indistinguishable.
industrial democracy — control of an organization by the people who work for it, esp by workers holding positions on its board of directors
industrial espionage — the stealing of technological or commercial research data, blueprints, plans, etc., as by a person in the hire of a competing company.
industrial insurance — industrial life insurance.
industrial relations — (used with a plural verb) the dealings or relations of an industrial concern with its employees, with labor in general, with the public, etc.
industrial sociology — the sociological study of social relationships and social structures in business settings.
information builders — Distributors of LEVEL5 OBJECT. Telephone +1 800 969 INFO.
information overload — an excess of incoming information, as might confront a pedestrian on a crowded city street, that forces one to be selective in the information received and retained.
initial program load — (operating system) (IPL) The procedure used to (re-)start a computer system by copying the operating system kernel into main memory and running it. Part of the boot sequence.
inland revenue stamp — a certificate issued by the Inland Revenue to acknowledge payment of tax
intelligent database — (database) A database management system which performs data validation and processing traditionally done by application programs. Most DBMSs provide some data validation, e.g. rejecting invalid dates or alphabetic data entered into money fields, but often most processing is done by application programs. There is however no limit to the amount of processing that can be done by an intelligent database as long as the process is a standard function for that data. Examples of techniques used to implement intelligent databases are constraints, triggers and stored procedures. Moving processing to the database aids data integrity because it is guaranteed to be consistent across all uses of the data. Mainframe databases have increasingly become more intelligent and personal computer database systems are rapidly following.
internal hemorrhoids — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
international candle — candle (def 3b).
intestinal fortitude — courage; resoluteness; endurance; guts: to have intestinal fortitude.
into/in cold storage — If you put an idea or plan into cold storage or in cold storage, you delay it for a while rather than acting on it as you originally intended.
java development kit — (language, compiler) (JDK) A free Sun Microsystems product which provides the environment required for programming in Java. The JDK is available for a variety of platforms, but most notably Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows.
jerez de la frontera — a town in SW Spain: famous for the making of sherry. Pop: 191 002 (2003 est)
judicial proceedings — any action involving or carried out by a court of law
knowledge management — data technology
la canada-flintridge — a town in SW California.
laboratory diagnosis — scientific analysis of a disease
labour-saving device — a machine, gadget, etc, that reduces (human) effort, hard work or labour
land-office business — a lively, booming, expanding, or very profitable business.
language development — the development verbal communication skills in children
languedoc-roussillon — a region of S France, on the Gulf of Lions: consists of the departments of Lozère, Gard, Hérault, Aude, and Pyrénées-Orientales; mainly mountainous with a coastal plain
laugh one's head off — Phrases such as laugh your head off and scream your head off can be used to emphasize that someone is laughing or screaming a lot or very loudly.
law of contradiction — the law that a proposition cannot be both true and false or that a thing cannot both have and not have a given property.
law-and-order issues — issues concerning law and social conventions
lead someone a dance — to cause someone continued worry and exasperation; play up
lead with one's chin — to act so imprudently as to invite disaster
learned helplessness — the act of giving up trying as a result of consistent failure to be rewarded in life, thought to be a symptom of depression
lieutenant commander — a commissioned officer ranking next below a commander and next above a lieutenant.
linage advertisement — advertisements which are costed and paid for according to the number of lines in them
linear address space — A memory addressing scheme used in processors where the whole memory can be accessed using a single address that fits in a single register or instruction. This contrasts with a segmented memory architecture, such as that used on the Intel 8086, where an address is given by an offset from a base address held in one of the "segment registers". Linear addressing greatly simplifies programming at the assembly language level but requires more instruction word bits to be allocated for an address.
linearly ordered set — a set in which a relation, as “less than or equal to,” holds for all pairs of elements of the set.
live and breathe sth — be passionately interested in sth
llywelyn ap gruffudd — died 1282, prince of Wales (1258–82): the only Welsh ruler to be recognized as such by the English

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