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

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
industrial democracy — control of an organization by the people who work for it, esp by workers holding positions on its board of directors
industrial insurance — industrial life insurance.
industrial sociology — the sociological study of social relationships and social structures in business settings.
international candle — candle (def 3b).
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.
judicial proceedings — any action involving or carried out by a court of law
la canada-flintridge — a town in SW California.
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.
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
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.
lead with one's chin — to act so imprudently as to invite disaster
lieutenant commander — a commissioned officer ranking next below a commander and next above a lieutenant.
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.
long island iced tea — a potent cocktail consisting of equal parts of, typically, five different distilled alcoholic liquors, usually vodka, gin, rum, tequila, and triple sec, with a small amount of mixer, usually cola
longitude by account — the longitude of the position of a vessel as estimated by dead reckoning.
longitudinal section — the representation of an object as it would appear if cut by the vertical plane passing through the longest axis of the object.
lord high chancellor — the highest judicial officer of the British crown: law adviser of the ministry, keeper of the great seal, presiding officer in the House of Lords, etc.
macular degeneration — degeneration of the central portion of the retina, resulting in a loss of sharp vision.
madwoman of chaillot — a satirical comedy (1945) by Jean Giraudoux.
magnetic declination — variation (def 8).
magneto-optical disk — (hardware, storage) (MO) A plastic or glass disk coated with a compound (often TbFeCo) with special optical, magnetic and thermal properties. The disk is read by bouncing a low-intensity laser off the disk. Originally the laser was infrared, but frequencies up to blue may be possible giving higher storage density. The polarisation of the reflected light depends on the polarity of the stored magnetic field. To write, a higher intensity laser heats the coating up to its Curie point, allowing its magnetisation to be altered in a way that is retained when it has cooled. Although optical, they appear as hard drives to the operating system and do not require a special filesystem (they can be formatted as FAT, HPFS, NTFS, etc.). The initial 5.25" MO drives, introduced at the end of the 1980s, were the size of a full-height 5.25" hard drive (like in IBM PC XT) and the disks looked like a CD-ROM enclosed in an old-style cartridge In 2006, a 3.5" drive has the size of 1.44 megabyte diskette drive with disks about the size of a regular 1.44MB floppy disc but twice the thickness.
mail exchange record — (messaging) (MX Record) A DNS resource record type that says which SMTP server handles electronic mail for a particular domain. E.g. the MX record foo.co.uk. 1054 IN MX 10 mail.foo.co.uk. means that mail for an address like "[email protected]" should be sent to "mail.foo.co.uk". There can be several servers for a domain. The "10" is a priority - the server with the lowest number will be tried first.
mechanical advantage — the ratio of output force to the input force applied to a mechanism.
mechanical impedance — impedance (def 2).
mechanical-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
media access control — (networking) (MAC) The lower sublayer of the OSI data link layer. The interface between a node's Logical Link Control and the network's physical layer. The MAC differs for various physical media. See also MAC Address, Ethernet, IEEE 802.3, token ring.
medical practitioner — doctor
medical underwriting — Medical underwriting is the use of medical or health status information in the evaluation of an applicant for life or health insurance.
meta-dichlorobenzene — a colorless liquid, C 6 H 4 Cl 2 , soluble in alcohol and ether: used as a fumigant and insecticide.
middle-distance race — a race of a length between the sprints and the distance events, esp the 800 metres and the 1500 metres
multicast addressing — Ethernet addressing scheme used to send packets to devices of a certain type or for broadcasting to all nodes. The least significant bit of the most significant byte of a multi-cast address is one.
net national product — the gross national product less allowance for depreciation of capital goods. Abbreviation: NNP.
nonaccidental injury — damage, such as a bruise, burn, or fracture, deliberately inflicted on a child or an old person
nonrepeating decimal — a decimal representation of any irrational number, having the property that no sequence of digits is repeated ad infinitum.
north atlantic drift — an ocean current flowing NE toward the British Isles, formed by the convergence of the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current SE of Newfoundland.
north richland hills — a town in N Texas.
occupational disease — Also called industrial disease. a disease caused by the conditions or hazards of a particular occupation.
optical mark reading — the reading of marks by an optical device whereby the information can be stored in machine-readable form
oxyacetylene welding — welding using an oxyacetylene burner
packed like sardines — If you say that a crowd of people are packed like sardines, you are emphasizing that they are sitting or standing so close together that they cannot move easily.
para-dichlorobenzene — a white, crystalline, volatile, water-insoluble solid, C 6 H 4 Cl 2 , of the benzene series, having a penetrating odor: used chiefly as a moth repellent.
pentose nucleic acid — a nucleic acid containing a pentose.
permonosulfuric acid — persulfuric acid (def 1).
perpendicular gothic — the style of Gothic architecture in England during the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by tracery having vertical lines, a four-centred arch, and fan vaulting
physiologic jaundice — a transitory jaundice that affects some infants for the first few days after birth.

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