19-letter words containing l, i, n, e, t, r

mother-in-law plant — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
mount desert island — an island off the coast of E central Maine: summer resort; forms part of Acadia National Park. 14 miles (23 km) long; 8 miles (13 km) wide.
multinomial theorem — an expression of a power of a sum in terms of powers of the addends, a generalization of the binomial theorem.
multiple-entry visa — a visa that permits the holder to enter a country several times
multiplexor channel — (MPX) mainframe terminology for a slow peripheral device connection, e.g. for a printer, operator console, or card reader.
mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
napierian logarithm — natural logarithm.
nathaniel hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
national characters — (character) Characters with accents and other diacritical marks that are used in certain written languages (that are based on the Roman alphabet) but not in others, particularly not in English. A standard list is ISO Latin 1.
national government — A national government is a government with members from more than one political party, especially one that is formed during a crisis.
national serviceman — a soldier undertaking compulsory military service
natural killer cell — a small killer cell that destroys virus-infected cells or tumor cells without activation by an immune system cell or antibody.
near letter quality — a quality of print that is not quite letter quality, but is better than draft quality
negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
network file system — (networking, operating system) (NFS) A protocol developed by Sun Microsystems, and defined in RFC 1094, which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. This protocol has been incorporated in products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a de facto standard. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol (UDP) in order to make it stateless. See Nightmare File System, WebNFS.
neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
neurotransmissional — Relating to neurotransmission.
new year resolution — a promise to yourself or decision to do something, especially to improve one's behaviour or lifestyle in some way, during the year ahead
niagara-on-the-lake — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River, on the border between Canada and New York.
nine plus two array — the arrangement of microtubules in a flagellum or cilium, consisting of a ring of nine evenly spaced couplets surrounding two central singlets. Symbol: 9 + 2.
no shrinking violet — If you say that someone is no shrinking violet, you mean that they are not at all shy.
no-write allocation — (memory management) A cache policy where only processor reads are cached, thus avoiding the need for write-back or write-through.
non-transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
non-volatile memory — non-volatile storage
nonforfeiture value — any benefit, as cash or other form of insurance, available to a life-insurance policyholder who discontinues premium payments on the policy.
nonmaterial culture — the aggregate of values, mores, norms, etc., of a society; the ideational structure of a culture that provides the values and meanings by which it functions.
nonrepresentational — not resembling or portraying any object in physical nature: a nonrepresentational painting.
nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
nuclear disarmament — the gradual reduction and eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world
object-oriented sql — (language) (OSQL) A functional language, a superset of SQL, used in Hewlett-Packard's OpenODB database system.
observation balloon — a balloon that is used for gathering information and reconnaissance purposes and spotting aircraft
old english pattern — a spoon pattern having a stem curving backward at the end.
on the baker's list — in good health
operational testing — (testing) A US DoD term for testing performed by the end-user on software in its normal operating environment.
optimising compiler — (programming, tool) compiler which attempts to analyse the code it produces and to produce more efficient code by performing program transformation such as branch elimination, partial evaluation, or peep-hole optimisation. Contrast pessimising compiler.
oral interpretation — the study and practice of vocally expressing the meaning of written compositions, especially of literature.
oriental fruit moth — a moth, Grapholitha molesta, introduced into the U.S. from Asia, the larvae of which infest and feed on the twigs and fruits of peach, plum, and related trees.
over-centralization — the act or fact of centralizing; fact of being centralized.
over-sentimentality — the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
paleoanthropologist — the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains.
parallel projection — a projection from one plane to a second plane in which the lines joining points on the first plane and corresponding images are parallel.
parliament building — structure housing legislative offices
parliamentary agent — (in Britain) a person who is employed to manage the parliamentary business of a private group
parthenogenetically — development of an egg without fertilization.
particle kinematics — Particle kinematics is the study of the movement of particles, without considering the forces that cause this movement.
particle separation — a rule that moves the particle of a phrasal verb, thus deriving a sentence like He looked the answer up from a structure that also underlies He looked up the answer
particle technology — Particle technology is knowledge and study which relates to particles, and is used in industry.
particular negative — a proposition of the form “Some S is not P.” Symbol: O.
pastoral counseling — the use of psychotherapeutic techniques by trained members of the clergy to assist parishioners who seek help for personal or emotional problems.
peridental membrane — periodontal membrane.

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