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11-letter words containing g, n, a

  • airdropping — Present participle of airdrop.
  • alan turing — (person)   Alan M. Turing, 1912-06-22/3? - 1954-06-07. A British mathematician, inventor of the Turing Machine. Turing also proposed the Turing test. Turing's work was fundamental in the theoretical foundations of computer science. Turing was a student and fellow of King's College Cambridge and was a graduate student at Princeton University from 1936 to 1938. While at Princeton Turing published "On Computable Numbers", a paper in which he conceived an abstract machine, now called a Turing Machine. Turing returned to England in 1938 and during World War II, he worked in the British Foreign Office. He masterminded operations at Bletchley Park, UK which were highly successful in cracking the Nazis "Enigma" codes during World War II. Some of his early advances in computer design were inspired by the need to perform many repetitive symbolic manipulations quickly. Before the building of the Colossus computer this work was done by a roomful of women. In 1945 he joined the National Physical Laboratory in London and worked on the design and construction of a large computer, named Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). In 1949 Turing became deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester where the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, the worlds largest memory computer, was being built. He also worked on theories of artificial intelligence, and on the application of mathematical theory to biological forms. In 1952 he published the first part of his theoretical study of morphogenesis, the development of pattern and form in living organisms. Turing was gay, and died rather young under mysterious circumstances. He was arrested for violation of British homosexuality statutes in 1952. He died of potassium cyanide poisoning while conducting electrolysis experiments. An inquest concluded that it was self-administered but it is now thought by some to have been an accident. There is an excellent biography of Turing by Andrew Hodges, subtitled "The Enigma of Intelligence" and a play based on it called "Breaking the Code". There was also a popular summary of his work in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach".
  • albategnius — Latin name of Battani.
  • albugineous — related to or resembling the white of an egg
  • alcaligenes — any of several rod-shaped aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Alcaligenes, found in the intestinal tract of humans and other vertebrates and in dairy products.
  • alchemizing — Present participle of alchemize.
  • aleggeaunce — the alleviation of grief or a burden
  • algin fiber — an alkali-soluble fiber produced by injecting a fine stream of alkaline algin into an aqueous solution of a metallic salt, used chiefly in the manufacture of fine threads.
  • alkalifying — Present participle of alkalify.
  • all-nighter — an entertainment, such as a pop concert or film screening, that lasts all night
  • allegations — Plural form of allegation.
  • allegiances — the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign.
  • alleviating — to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain.
  • alligations — Plural form of alligation.
  • alloantigen — an antigen present in some but not all individuals of the same species, as those in different human blood groups.
  • allowancing — Present participle of allowance.
  • alpha cygni — Deneb
  • alternating — happening in succession
  • amazingness — The state or quality, of being amazing.
  • ambiguating — Present participle of ambiguate.
  • ambiguation — Act of ambiguating.
  • ambitioning — an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment: Too much ambition caused him to be disliked by his colleagues.
  • amblygonite — a white or greyish mineral consisting of lithium aluminium fluorophosphate in triclinic crystalline form. It is a source of lithium. Formula: (Li,Na)Al(PO4)(F,OH)
  • ambuscading — Present participle of ambuscade.
  • amino group — the univalent group, −NH 2 .
  • amino-sugar — a monosaccharide with an amino or substituted amino group in place of a nonglycosidic hydroxyl group.
  • ammonifying — Present participle of ammonify.
  • amniography — an x-ray examination of the amniotic sac after the injection of an opaque solution, performed to permit visualization of the umbilical cord and the placenta.
  • amphigenous — (of certain parasitic fungi) growing on both sides of leaves.
  • amusingness — the quality or state of being amusing
  • anaglyptics — (arts) The art of carving or embossing in low relief.
  • anagnorises — Plural form of anagnorisis.
  • anagnorisis — (in Greek tragedy) the recognition or discovery by the protagonist of the identity of some character or the nature of his own predicament, which leads to the resolution of the plot; denouement
  • anagramming — a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.
  • analogistic — a person who employs or argues from analogy.
  • analogizing — Present participle of analogize.
  • analogously — having analogy; corresponding in some particular: A brain and a computer are analogous.
  • anastigmats — Plural form of anastigmat.
  • anatomizing — Present participle of anatomize.
  • anchor ring — a ring made from an iron bar of circular cross-section
  • androgenise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of androgenize.
  • androgenize — Treat with or expose to male hormones, typically resulting in the production of male sexual characteristics.
  • androgenous — producing only male offspring
  • androgynous — In biology, an androgynous person, animal, or plant has both male and female sexual characteristics.
  • anemographs — Plural form of anemograph.
  • anemography — the technique of recording wind measurements
  • angel falls — a waterfall in SE Venezuela, on the Caroní River; regarded as the highest in the world. Height: 979 m (3212 ft)
  • angel light — (in an English Perpendicular window) a compartment, approximately triangular, formed by the arch of the window, an arch of a lower tier of tracery, and a mullion of an upper tier of tracery.
  • angel shark — any of several sharks constituting the family Squatinidae, such as Squatina squatina, that have very large flattened pectoral fins and occur in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
  • angelically — of or belonging to angels: the angelic host.
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