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16-letter words containing l, y, t, a

  • run-time library — (operating system, programming, library)   A file containing routines which are linked with a program at run time rather than at compile-time. The advantage of such dynamic linking is that only one copy of the library needs to be stored, rather than a copy being included with each executable that refers to it. This can greatly reduce the disk space occupied by programs. Furthermore, it means that all programs immediately benefit from changes (e.g. bug fixes) to the single copy of the library without requiring recompilation. Since the library code is normally classified as read-only to the memory management system, it is possible for a single copy of the library to be loaded into memory and shared by all active programs, thus reducing RAM and virtual memory requirements and program load time.
  • saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • sealyham terrier — one of a Welsh breed of small terriers having short legs, a docked tail, and a wiry, mostly white coat.
  • security analyst — a person who specializes in evaluating information regarding stocks and bonds.
  • security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
  • self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
  • self-explanatory — explaining itself; needing no explanation; obvious.
  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
  • slang dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
  • social pathology — a social factor, as poverty, old age, or crime, that tends to increase social disorganization and inhibit personal adjustment.
  • social secretary — a personal secretary employed to make social appointments and handle personal correspondence.
  • sodium cyclamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, NaC 6 NH 1 2 SO 3 , that has been used as a sweetening agent: banned by the FDA in 1970.
  • sodium methylate — a white, free-flowing, flammable powder, CH 3 ONa, decomposed by water to sodium hydroxide and methyl alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
  • sony playstation — Playstation
  • speech pathology — the scientific study and treatment of defects, disorders, and malfunctions of speech and voice, as stuttering, lisping, or lalling, and of language disturbances, as aphasia or delayed language acquisition.
  • stereoregularity — (of a polymer) the degree to which successive configurations in space along the chain follow a simple rule. Also called tacticity. Compare configuration (def 4).
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • strawberry blite — a plant, Chenopodium capitatum, having dense, rounded clusters of minute reddish flowers.
  • strawberry blond — reddish blond.
  • strict liability — responsibility for damage or loss regardless of intention or culpability
  • strongyloidiasis — an intestinal disease caused by infection with the nematode worm Strongyloides stercoralis
  • styralyl acetate — methylphenylcarbinyl acetate.
  • substitutability — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
  • systems analysis — the evaluation of an activity to identify its desired objectives and determine procedures for efficiently attaining them.
  • taft-hartley act — an act of the U.S. Congress (1947) that supersedes but continues most of the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act and that, in addition, provides for an eighty-day injunction against strikes that endanger public health and safety and bans closed shops, featherbedding, secondary boycotts, jurisdictional strikes, and certain other union practices.
  • taimyr peninsula — a peninsula in the N Russian Federation in Asia, between the Kara and Laptev seas.
  • take holy orders — to become ordained
  • take the liberty — do sth without permission
  • territorial army — The Territorial Army is a British armed force whose members are not professional soldiers but train as soldiers in their spare time.
  • tertiary college — a college system incorporating the secondary school sixth form and vocational courses
  • tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
  • thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
  • the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • the early church — the Christian church in the centuries immediately following Christ's death
  • the eternal city — Rome
  • the first family — a President's family
  • the one and only — incomparable and unique
  • the-card-players — a painting (1892) by Paul Cézanne.
  • thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thick-tailed ray — Ichthyology. any ray of the order Rajiformes, having a relatively thick, fleshy tail, including the guitarfishes and the skates.
  • three-point play — a play in which a player sinks the free throw that was awarded when the player was fouled while scoring a basket.
  • tinnevelly senna — any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
  • to call it a day — If you call it a day, you decide to stop what you are doing because you are tired of it or because it is not successful.
  • to go a long way — If you say that something goes a long way towards doing a particular thing, you mean that it is an important factor in achieving that thing.
  • to play for time — If you play for time, you try to make something happen more slowly, because you do not want it to happen or because you need time to think about what to do if it happens.
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