14-letter words containing a, n, i, h, l, t
- lothian region — a former local government region in SE central Scotland, formed in 1975 from East Lothian, most of Midlothian, and West Lothian; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Edinburgh
- lyophilisation — Alternative spelling of lyophilization.
- lyophilization — (of tissue, blood, serum, or the like) to dry by freezing in a high vacuum.
- machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- mental healing — the healing of a physical ailment or disorder by mental concentration or suggestion.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- met enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
- methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
- methylxanthine — a compound formed through the methylation of xanthine, such as caffeine or theophylline
- mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- mnemotechnical — Of or pertaining to mnemotechny.
- monolithically — of or relating to a monolith.
- monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- monotheletical — like a monothelete
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- naval hospital — a hospital that provides treatment for people in the Navy
- neanderthaloid — resembling or characteristic of the physical type of Neanderthal man.
- neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
- nihilistically — of or believing in nihilism, or the total rejection of established laws and institutions: An exhibition of nihilistic art—now there's an oxymoron!
- non-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- non-malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- non-scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
- nonestablished — without the official support of the government
- noninheritable — Not inheritable.
- nontechnically — In a nontechnical manner.
- nontheological — not theological, not having theological content
- nontheoretical — not confined to the theoretical realm; actual
- north atlantic — relating to the North Atlantic and, often, the countries bordering it
- north carolina — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 52,586 sq. mi. (136,198 sq. km). Capital: Raleigh. Abbreviation: NC (for use with zip code), N.C.
- omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
- ornithological — the branch of zoology that deals with birds.
- orthonormalize — (mathematics) To make a set of vectors both orthogonal and normalized.
- outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
- owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- palaeanthropic — relating to or denoting the earliest variety of man
- paleoanthropic — pertaining to prehistoric humans.
- pamphleteering — the occupation of a pamphleteer
- panel lighting — lighting of a room or building by means of flat sheets of material that glow brightly when a coating of a phosphor is excited by an electrical charge.
- parking lights — the parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width
- patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pavement light — a windowlike structure set in a pavement or the like to illuminate areas beneath, consisting of thick glass blocks set in a metal frame.
- pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.