15-letter words containing l, a, v, t
- javelin thrower — a person who throws a javelin
- kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
- labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
- lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
- las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
- lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
- lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
- lazy evaluation — (reduction) An evaluation strategy combining normal order evaluation with updating. Under normal order evaluation (outermost or call-by-name evaluation) an expression is evaluated only when its value is needed in order for the program to return (the next part of) its result. Updating means that if an expression's value is needed more than once (i.e. it is shared), the result of the first evaluation is remembered and subsequent requests for it will return the remembered value immediately without further evaluation. This is often implemented by graph reduction. An unevaluated expression is represented as a closure - a data structure containing all the information required to evaluate the expression. Lazy evaluation is one evaluation strategy used to implement non-strict functions. Function arguments may be infinite data structures (especially lists) of values, the components of which are evaluated as needed. According to Phil Wadler the term was invented by Jim Morris. Opposite: eager evaluation. A partial kind of lazy evaluation implements lazy data structures or especially lazy lists where function arguments are passed evaluated but the arguments of data constructors are not evaluated.
- leave the field — to back out of a competition, contest, etc
- leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
- left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
- length over all — Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.
- levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
- level two cache — secondary cache
- levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
- literary device — technique used in writing
- liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
- living quarters — accommodation
- living standard — standard of living.
- loan investment — a loan made as an investment
- low-level waste — waste material contaminated by traces of radioactivity that can be disposed of in steel drums in concrete-lined trenches but not (since 1983) in the sea
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
- male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
- maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- maternity leave — a leave of absence for an expectant or new mother for the birth and care of the baby.
- medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
- metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
- milliequivalent — a unit of measure, applied to electrolytes, that expresses the combining power of a substance. Abbreviation: mEq.
- misvocalization — an incorrect or bad vocalization
- motor voter law — a law that enables prospective voters to register when they obtain or renew a driver's license.
- multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
- multiple-valued — many-valued.
- multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
- multum in parvo — much in a small space
- native compiler — (programming, tool) A compiler which runs on the computer for which it is producing machine code, in contrast to a cross-compiler, which produces code for a different computer.
- native language — first language, mother tongue
- natural varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- natural virtues — (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.
- navigation laws — laws relating to navigation
- net asset value — the total value of the assets of an organization less its liabilities and capital charges
- non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- non-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- non-qualitative — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
- non-traversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- nonavailability — A lack of availability.
- nonconventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- nonexploitative — not exploitative
- nongovernmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.