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19-letter words containing i, l, c, o

  • knights of columbus — an international fraternal and benevolent organization of Roman Catholic men, founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882.
  • lady baltimore cake — a white layer cake using only the beaten whites of eggs and spread with a fruitnut filling consisting of raisins, figs, walnuts or pecans, and sometimes candied cherries.
  • lagrangian function — kinetic potential.
  • languages of choice — C and Lisp. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both. Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities. There is also a rapidly dwindling category of older hackers with Fortran, or even assembler, as their language of choice. They often prefer to be known as Real Programmers, and other hackers consider them a bit odd (see "The Story of Mel"). Assembler is generally no longer considered interesting or appropriate for anything but HLL implementation, glue, and a few time-critical and hardware-specific uses in systems programs. Fortran occupies a shrinking niche in scientific programming. Most hackers tend to frown on languages like Pascal and Ada, which don't give them the near-total freedom considered necessary for hacking (see bondage-and-discipline language), and to regard everything even remotely connected with COBOL or other traditional card walloper languages as a total and unmitigated loss.
  • leading coefficient — the coefficient of the term of highest degree in a given polynomial. 5 is the leading coefficient in 5 x 3 + 3 x 2 − 2 x + 1.
  • league championship — the competition to become league champions
  • left-luggage office — a checkroom for baggage.
  • legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
  • leisure occupations — activities which you enjoy and which you perform in your free time
  • library of congress — one of the major library collections in the world, located in Washington, D.C., and functioning in some ways as the national library of the U.S. although not officially designated as such: established by Congress in 1800 for service to its members, but now also serving government agencies, other libraries, and the public.
  • lift the curtain on — to begin
  • lift up one's voice — to speak out loudly
  • lightning conductor — A lightning conductor is a long thin piece of metal on top of a building that attracts lightning and allows it to reach the ground safely.
  • line of demarcation — a separation between things deemed to be distinct
  • lipopolysaccharides — Plural form of lipopolysaccharide.
  • lipschitz condition — the property of a function on a closed interval such that the absolute value of the difference in functional values at any two points in the interval is less than a constant times the absolute value of the difference of the points raised to some positive power m, called the order.
  • liquorice all-sorts — a brand of assorted sweets containing liquorice as well as coloured candy made of sugar, gelatine, and coconut
  • local area terminal — (protocol)   (LAT) A DECnet-related, non-routable network protocol.
  • locomotive engineer — engineer (def 3).
  • locomotive workshop — a place where locomotives are built or repaired
  • logical consequence — the relation that obtains between the conclusion and the premises of a formally valid argument
  • logical shift right — logical shift
  • logical unit number — (storage)   (LUN) A 3-bit identifier used on a SCSI bus to distinguish between up to eight devices (logical units) with the same SCSI ID.
  • lord baltimore cake — a yellow layer cake, using only the yolks of eggs and having a fruit-nut filling consisting of pecans, almonds, maraschino cherries, and macaroon crumbs.
  • loss-of-containment — Loss-of-containment happens when a fluid which is usually contained somewhere escapes from that place.
  • low insertion force — (hardware)   (LIF) PGA/SPGA sockets with no handle. The integrated circuit is simply pushed into the socket, and levered out to remove. Most motherboard processor sockets are now ZIF rather than LIF.
  • lucent technologies — (company, telecommunications, Unix)   The former systems and equipment portion of AT&T (including Bell Laboratories), split off in 1996.
  • lucia di lammermoor — an opera (1835) by Gaetano Donizetti, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor.
  • luminous efficiency — the perceived brightness of light as a ratio of the total luminous flux to total radiant flux of the source; a measure of brightness obtained by dividing the source's luminous flux by the consumption of its energy.
  • lyon office of arms — Heralds' Office.
  • machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
  • maestro di cappella — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp a private one attached to the palace of a prince in Italy during the baroque period
  • magnetic levitation — the suspension of an object above or below a second object by means of magnetic repulsion or attraction.
  • magnetic north pole — the point on Earth to where a compass needle points, and which is situated near the geographic North Pole. However, with time, the exact location can vary.
  • malice aforethought — a predetermination to commit an unlawful act without just cause or provocation (applied chiefly to cases of first-degree murder).
  • malicious falsehood — a lie told by someone who knows the lie is false or knows it will do harm to the person it is concerning
  • malleable cast iron — white cast iron that has been malleablized.
  • maternity allowance — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a payment made to a pregnant woman who usually works but does not qualify for statutory maternity pay, normally from 11 weeks before confinement for a period of 18 weeks
  • medical examination — physical examination
  • melodic minor scale — minor scale (def 2).
  • meningoencephalitic — Relating to meningoencephalitis.
  • meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
  • mercurial barometer — mercury barometer.
  • metropolitan county — (in England) any of the six conurbations established as administrative units in the new local government system in 1974; the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986
  • microelectronically — by microcircuits
  • middle palaeolithic — the period between the Lower and the Upper Palaeolithic, usually taken as equivalent to the Mousterian
  • miracle of st. mark — a painting (1548) by Tintoretto.
  • miscellaneous items — various kinds of thing, esp small purchases
  • molar heat capacity — the heat capacity of one mole of a substance.
  • molecular biologist — a specialist in the study of biological phenomena at the molecular level
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