11-letter words containing l, i, t, p
- multiplexes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of multiplex.
- multiplexor — multiplexing
- multipliers — Plural form of multiplier.
- multiplying — Present participle of multiply.
- multipop-68 — (operating system) An early time-sharing operating system developed in Edinburgh by Robin Popplestone and others. It was inspired by MIT' Project MAC, via a "MiniMac" project which was aborted when it became obvious that Elliot Brothers Ltd. could not supply the necessary disk storage. Multipop was highly efficient in its use of machine resources to support symbolic programming, and effective - e.g. in supporting the development of the Boyer-Moore theorem prover and of Burstall and Darlington's transformation work. It was not good at supporting the user programs which were then the standard fare of computing, e.g. matrix inversion. This arose from the fact that while the POP-2 compiler generated good code for function call (which is a lot of what layered systems like operating systems do) it did not generate efficient code for arithmetic or store access, because there was no way to police the generation of illegal objects statically. (Hindley-Milner type checking did not exist). Indeed, since many OS features like file-access were performed by function-call (of a closure) rather than an OS call requiring a context switch, POP-2 actually gained performance. Multipop68 was efficient primarily because the one language, POP-2 served all purposes: it was the command language for the operating system as well as being the only available programming language. Thus there was no need to swap in compilers etc. All store management was accomplished uniformly by the garbage collector, as opposed to having store management for the OS and store management for each application. There was a substantial amount of assembly language in Multipop68. This was primarily for interrupt handling, and it is difficult to handle this without a real-time garbage-collector.
- multipotent — having power to produce or influence several effects or results.
- multispiral — having several spiral coils
- myelopathic — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
- naphthaline — Naphthalene.
- naphthalize — to mix or saturate with naphtha.
- napoleonite — a variety of diorite rock with a spherical structure
- narcoleptic — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- needlepoint — embroidery upon canvas, usually with uniform spacing of stitches in a pattern.
- nemophilist — (rare) One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
- neoplatonic — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- neopopulist — pertaining to a revival of populism, especially a sophisticated form appealing to commonplace values and prejudices.
- neotropical — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising that part of the New World extending from the tropic of Cancer southward.
- nephelinite — a fine-grained, dark rock of volcanic origin, essentially a basalt containing nepheline but no feldspar and little or no olivine.
- nephritical — Alternative form of nephritic.
- nephroliths — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- neuroleptic — (chiefly of a drug) tending to reduce nervous tension by depressing nerve functions.
- neutrophile — (biology) Any organism that thrives in a relatively neutral pH.
- neutrophils — Plural form of neutrophil.
- nilpotently — In a nilpotent fashion.
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- nitrophenol — any compound derived from phenol by the replacement of one or more of its ring hydrogen atoms by the nitro group.
- nodal point — either of two points on the axis of a lens or other optical system, determined by extending an incident oblique ray and the corresponding refracted ray to the axis for the pair of rays that are parallel outside the optical system.
- non-optical — of, relating to, or applying optics or the principles of optics.
- non-typical — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- nonhospital — not related to, identified with, or taking place in a hospital
- nontropical — not located in or originating from the tropics, not having the characteristics of the tropics
- notaphilist — a person who studies or collects paper money
- nulliparity — a woman who has never borne a child.
- nullipotent — (mathematics, computing) Describing an action which has no side effect. Queries are typically nullipotent: they return useful data, but do not change the data structure queried. Contrast with idempotent.
- object lisp — (language) An object-oriented Lisp developed by Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in about 1987. Object Lisp was based on nested closures and operator shadowing. Several competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp were around at the time, such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics; Common Objects, developed by Hewlett-Packard; and CommonLoops in use by Xerox. LMI submitted the specification as a candidate for an object-oriented standard for Common Lisp, but it was defeated in favour of CLOS.
- occipitalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontal muscle.
- occipitally — from an occipital point of view
- octuplicate — a group, series, or set of eight identical copies (usually preceded by in).
- oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- oligopolist — A member of an oligopoly; one of a small number of sellers with undue influence over a market.
- oligotrophy — the state of being oligotrophic, or deficient in nutrients but high in oxygen.
- openability — The quality of being openable.
- operability — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
- operational — able to function or be used; functional: How soon will the new factory be operational?
- operatively — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- ophicalcite — a type of marble containing serpentine and calcite
- ophiologist — the branch of herpetology dealing with snakes.
- ophthalmist — an eye expert; an oculist
- optical art — op art.
- optimizable — Capable of being optimized.