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11-letter words containing l, a, r

  • 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".
  • alarm bells — If you say that something sets alarm bells ringing, you mean that it makes people feel worried or concerned about something.
  • alarm clock — An alarm clock is a clock that you can set to make a noise so that it wakes you up at a particular time.
  • alaska crab — king crab (def 2).
  • alaska-crab — horseshoe crab.
  • albatrosses — Plural form of albatross.
  • albedometer — an instrument that measures the albedo of a surface.
  • albert nile — a river in NW Uganda: part of the upper Nile River.
  • albertville — former name of Kalemie.
  • album chart — a regular listing of bestselling record albums
  • album cover — the front of the outer packaging of a record album, usually decorated and showing its title and the name of the artist
  • albuminuria — the presence of albumin in the urine
  • albuminuric — related to the state of albuminuria
  • albuquerque — a city in central New Mexico, on the Rio Grande. Pop: 471 856 (2003 est)
  • 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
  • aldermaston — a village in S England, in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire, SW of Reading: site of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and starting point of the Aldermaston marches (1958–63), organized by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Pop: 927 (2001)
  • alderperson — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
  • aldosterone — the principal mineralocorticoid secreted by the adrenal cortex. A synthesized form is used in the treatment of Addison's disease. Formula: C21H27O5
  • aldotetrose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having four carbon atoms.
  • alendronate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of alendronic acid.
  • alessandria — a town in NW Italy, in Piedmont. Pop: 85 438 (2001)
  • aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
  • alexander i — c. 1080–1124, king of Scotland (1107–24), son of Malcolm III
  • alexander v — 1340?–1410, Cretan ecclesiastic: pope 1409–10.
  • 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.
  • alford plea — Law. a pleading of guilty in a plea bargain in which the defendant maintains his or her innocence.
  • alfred lunt — Alfred, 1893–1977, U.S. actor (husband of Lynn Fontanne).
  • 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
  • alkyl group — any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula C n H 2n+1 , derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons, as the methyl group, CH 3 −, or ethyl group, C 2 H 5 −.
  • all aboard! — a warning to passengers to board a vehicle, ship, etc
  • all-dressed — (of a hot dog, hamburger, etc) served with all available garnishes
  • all-nighter — an entertainment, such as a pop concert or film screening, that lasts all night
  • all-purpose — You use all-purpose to refer to things that have lots of different uses or can be used in lots of different situations.
  • all-rounder — Someone who is an all-rounder is good at a lot of different skills, academic subjects, or sports.
  • all-terrain — designed to travel on all types of ground, including rough ground
  • all-weather — All-weather sports take place on an artificial surface instead of on grass.
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