11-letter words containing l, a, r, i
- ahistorical — not related to history; not historical
- ailurophile — a person who likes cats
- ailurophobe — a person who dislikes or is afraid of cats
- air bladder — an air-filled sac, lying above the alimentary canal in bony fishes, that regulates buoyancy at different depths by a variation in the pressure of the air
- air cavalry — an infantry or reconnaissance unit transported by air to combat areas.
- air cleaner — a filter that prevents dust and other particles from entering the air-intake of an internal-combustion engine
- air marshal — a senior Royal Air Force officer of equivalent rank to a vice admiral in the Royal Navy
- air quality — the composition of the air in terms of how much pollution it contains
- air shuttle — a shuttle service operated by aircraft, usually covering short routes with frequent flights
- air vesicle — a large air-filled intercellular space in some aquatic plants
- air waybill — a document made out by the consignor of goods by air freight giving details of the goods and the name of the consignee
- airlessness — The state or condition of being poorly ventilated; lacking good air circulation, having stale air.
- airwaybills — Plural form of airwaybill.
- alabastrine — a finely granular variety of gypsum, often white and translucent, used for ornamental objects or work, such as lamp bases, figurines, etc.
- 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".
- albert nile — a river in NW Uganda: part of the upper Nile River.
- albertville — former name of Kalemie.
- albuminuria — the presence of albumin in the urine
- albuminuric — related to the state of albuminuria
- alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
- aldermanity — the body of aldermen
- alessandria — a town in NW Italy, in Piedmont. Pop: 85 438 (2001)
- alexander i — c. 1080–1124, king of Scotland (1107–24), son of Malcolm III
- alexandrian — of or relating to Alexander the Great
- alexandrina — a female given name, form of Alexandra.
- alexandrine — a line of verse having six iambic feet, usually with a caesura after the third foot
- alexandrite — a green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone
- alfilerilla — Alt form alfilaria.
- algesimeter — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
- 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.
- algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
- aliturgical — designating those days on which the celebration of certain liturgies, especially the Eucharist, is forbidden.
- alkali rock — any igneous rock with a marked preponderance of alkali and a low percentage of silica.
- alkalimeter — an apparatus for determining the concentration of alkalis in solution
- alkalimetry — determination of the amount of alkali or base in a solution, measured by an alkalimeter or by volumetric analysis
- alkyd resin — any synthetic resin made from a dicarboxylic acid, such as phthalic acid, and diols or triols: used in paints and adhesives
- all-nighter — an entertainment, such as a pop concert or film screening, that lasts all night
- all-terrain — designed to travel on all types of ground, including rough ground
- allegorical — An allegorical story, poem, or painting uses allegory.
- allegorized — Simple past tense and past participle of allegorize.
- allegorizer — a person who talks in or explains by means of allegories
- alleviators — Plural form of alleviator.
- alleviatory — having the ability to reduce or moderate the severity of something
- alligatored — Damaged by alligatoring.
- alliterated — Simple past tense and past participle of alliterate.
- allocentric — Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
- allocheiria — a medical condition in which sensation is felt at a different point on the body from that stimulated
- allochronic — (biology, of taxa) occurring in different geologic time.
- allographic — Relating to allographs or allography.
- allomorphic — any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound.