14-letter words containing d, i, a, l
- industrializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of industrialize.
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
- inland passage — Inside Passage
- inland revenue — UK tax collection agency
- insecticidally — in an insecticidal manner
- inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
- interdialectal — relating to, or existing between, different dialects
- intermediately — being, situated, or acting between two points, stages, things, persons, etc.: the intermediate steps in a procedure.
- internal audit — an audit conducted by company accountants on a regular basis (distinguished from independent audit).
- interrelatedly — in an interrelated manner
- intimidatingly — In an intimidating manner.
- intraabdominal — Within the cavity of the abdomen.
- intracardially — in an intracardial manner
- intramedullary — located within the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, or bone marrow
- inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
- invisible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- inward-looking — person
- ionian islands — a group of Greek islands including Corfu, Levkas, Ithaca, Cephalonia, Paxos, and Zante off the W coast of Greece, and Cerigo off the S coast.
- iridopupillary — pertaining to the iris and the pupil.
- irrationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of irrationalise.
- isabela island — an island in the Pacific Ocean, off the W coast of South America: the largest of the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. 2250 sq. mi. (5827 sq. km).
- isla de pascua — Spanish name of Easter Island.
- island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- isodiametrical — isodiametric
- isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
- isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
- issued capital — the shares of a company that have been sold or distributed
- jardin anglais — a landscape garden having winding paths and irregular planting.
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- juridical days — days on which the courts are in session
- jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- kidney failure — loss of renal function
- labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
- lacrimal gland — either of two tear-secreting glands situated in the upper outer angle of the orbit.
- lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
- lady's-slipper — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, the flowers of which have a protruding petal somewhat resembling a slipper: all species are reduced in numbers, some greatly.
- lady's-thistle — a composite plant, Silybum marianum, of the Mediterranean region, having glossy, spiny leaves and purplish-red flower heads.
- lagoon islands — a former name of Tuvalu.
- lailat-ul-qadr — a night of study and prayer observed annually by Muslims to mark the communication of the Koran: it usually follows the 27th day of Ramadan
- lambda lifting — A program transformation to remove free variables. An expression containing a free variable is replaced by a function applied to that variable. E.g. f x = g 3 where g y = y + x x is a free variable of g so it is added as an extra argument: f x = g 3 x where g y x = y + x Functions like this with no free variables are known as supercombinators and are traditionally given upper-case names beginning with "$". This transformation tends to produce many supercombinators of the form f x = g x which can be eliminated by eta reduction and substitution. Changing the order of the parameters may also allow more optimisations. References to global (top-level) constants and functions are not transformed to function parameters though they are technically free variables. A closely related technique is closure conversion. See also Full laziness.
- landing beacon — a radio transmitter that emits a landing beam
- landing ground — airfield
- landing lights — aircraft lights used when landing
- landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
- landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
- landing-waiter — landwaiter.
- larixinic acid — maltol.
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
- latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.