11-letter words containing l, a, g
- misregulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- missile gap — a lag in one country's missile production relative to the production of another country.
- mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- modal logic — (logic) An extension of propositional calculus with operators that express various "modes" of truth. Examples of modes are: necessarily A, possibly A, probably A, it has always been true that A, it is permissible that A, it is believed that A. "It is necessarily true that A" means that things being as they are, A must be true, e.g. "It is necessarily true that x=x" is TRUE while "It is necessarily true that x=y" is FALSE even though "x=y" might be TRUE. Adding modal operators [F] and [P], meaning, respectively, henceforth and hitherto leads to a "temporal logic". Flavours of modal logics include: Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL), Propositional Linear Temporal Logic (PLTL), Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), Computational Tree Logic (CTL), Hennessy-Milner Logic, S1-S5, T. C.I. Lewis, "A Survey of Symbolic Logic", 1918, initiated the modern analysis of modality. He developed the logical systems S1-S5. JCC McKinsey used algebraic methods (Boolean algebras with operators) to prove the decidability of Lewis' S2 and S4 in 1941. Saul Kripke developed the relational semantics for modal logics (1959, 1963). Vaughan Pratt introduced dynamic logic in 1976. Amir Pnuelli proposed the use of temporal logic to formalise the behaviour of continually operating concurrent programs in 1977.
- moholy-nagy — László [las-loh;; Hungarian lahs-loh] /ˈlæs loʊ;; Hungarian ˈlɑs loʊ/ (Show IPA), or Ladislaus [lah-dis-lous] /ˈlɑ dɪsˌlaʊs/ (Show IPA), 1895–1946, Hungarian painter, designer, and photographer, in the U.S. after 1936.
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- monolingual — knowing or able to use only one language; monoglot.
- monological — a form of dramatic entertainment, comedic solo, or the like by a single speaker: a comedian's monologue.
- monongahela — a river flowing from N West Virginia through SW Pennsylvania into the Ohio River. 128 miles (205 km) long.
- morgan hill — a town in W California.
- mortalizing — Present participle of mortalize.
- mosaic gold — Chemistry. stannic sulfide.
- mothballing — Present participle of mothball.
- mount logan — a mountain in NW Canada, in SW Yukon in the St Elias Range: the highest peak in Canada and the second highest in North America. Height (after a re-survey in 1993): 5959 m (19 550 ft)
- multangular — having many angles; polyangular.
- multi-grain — a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- multiagency — involving multiple agencies
- multijugate — (of a leaf) having several pairs of leaflets
- muskallonge — muskellunge.
- mycological — Of or pertaining to mycology.
- myelography — the production of myelograms.
- nail-biting — the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.
- namecalling — Alternative form of name-calling.
- narratology — The study of narrative structure.
- nasal gleet — gleet (def 2).
- nasological — the scientific study of noses.
- natural gas — a combustible mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons that accumulates in porous sedimentary rocks, especially those yielding petroleum, consisting usually of over 80 percent methane together with minor amounts of ethane, propane, butane, nitrogen, and, sometimes, helium: used as a fuel and to make carbon black, acetylene, and synthesis gas.
- navigatable — Navigable.
- neglectable — Small enough, or unimportant enough to be neglected; negligible.
- negotiables — Plural form of negotiable.
- neonatology — the study of the development and disorders of newborn children.
- new england — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
- new glasgow — a city in N central Nova Scotia, in E Canada.
- new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
- night latch — a door lock operated from the inside by a knob and from the outside by a key.
- night table — a small table, chest, etc., for use next to a bed.
- nightingale — Florence ("the Lady with the Lamp") 1820–1910, English nurse: reformer of hospital conditions and procedures; reorganizer of nurse's training programs.
- nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
- nomological — the science of law or laws.
- non-aligned — not aligned: nonaligned machine parts.
- non-fragile — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- non-logical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- nonagesimal — (astronomy) The middle to highest point of a part of an ecliptic that is above the horizon at any period of time.
- nonallergic — not having an allergy; not sensitive to a particular antigen.
- nondelegate — a person who is not an official delegate
- nonfloating — Not floating (in any sense).
- nongalactic — Not galactic.
- nongranular — not consisting of granules
- nonintegral — not integral
- nonlanguage — non-verbal communication