13-letter words containing p, o, l, e, n
- incompossible — incompatible; mutually exclusive
- incorporeally — In an incorporeal manner.
- incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
- incorruptible — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
- infinite loop — (programming) (Or "endless loop") Where a piece of program is executed repeatedly with no hope of stopping. This is nearly always because of a bug, e.g. if the condition for exiting the loop is wrong, though it may be intentional if the program is controlling an embedded system which is supposed to run continuously until it is turned off. The programmer may also intend the program to run until interrupted by the user. An endless loop may also be used as a last-resort error handler when no other action is appropriate. This is used in some operating system kernels following a panic. A program executing an infinite loop is said to spin or buzz forever and goes catatonic. The program is "wound around the axle". A standard joke has been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine: "The Cray-3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds!" See also black hole, recursion, infinite loop.
- inoperational — Not operational.
- inopportunely — In an inopportune manner.
- insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
- interoperable — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
- interoperably — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
- interpersonal — of or pertaining to the relations between persons: He has strong interpersonal skills.
- interpetiolar — situated between petioles, or situated between the axis and a petiole
- interpolating — Present participle of interpolate.
- interpolation — extrapolation
- interpolative — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- interproximal — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- intertemporal — Describing any relationship between past, present and future events or conditions.
- intertropical — situated or occurring between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn; tropical.
- intrapersonal — existing or occurring within the self or within one's mind: People with high intrapersonal intelligence are aware of their strengths and weaknesses. Intrapersonal conflict can lead to emotional stress.
- intrapetiolar — located between the petiole and the stem
- irresponsible — said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.
- irresponsibly — said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.
- isle of pines — Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
- isoproterenol — a beta-adrenergic receptor agonist, C 11 H 17 NO 3 , used as a bronchodilator.
- japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
- jointer plane — a plane for truing the edges of boards, planing large surfaces, etc.
- joseph stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- kernel parlog — (language) A modeless intermediate language for Parlog compilation.
- kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- lamellaphones — Plural form of lamellaphone.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
- latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
- leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
- leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
- lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
- letter opener — bladed tool for opening envelopes
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
- loblolly pine — a coniferous tree, Pinus taeda, of the southeastern U.S., having bundles of stout often twisted needles and blackish-gray bark.
- locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- loebner prize — (artificial intelligence) An annual competition in artificial intelligence started by Dr. Hugh Loebner of New York City in 1991. A $100,000 prize is offered to the author of the first computer program to pass an unrestricted Turing test. Annual competitions are held each year with a $2000 prize for the best program on a restricted Turing test. Sponsors of previous competitions include: Apple Computer, Computerland, Crown Industries, GDE Systems, IBM Personal Computer Company's Center for Natural Computing, Greenwich Capital Markets, Motorola, the National Science Foundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The Weingart Foundation. The 1995 and 1996 events were unrestricted Turing Tests, requiring computer entries to converse indefinitely with no topic restrictions. So far, even the best programs give themselves away almost immediately, either by simple grammatical mistakes or by repetition. Complete transcripts and IBM compatible diskettes that play the 1991, 1992, and 1993 conversations in real-time are available for purchase from the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (telephone: +1 (617) 491 9020, Fax: 1072). Sponsorship opportunities are available.
- longleaf pine — an American pine, Pinus palustris, valued as a source of turpentine and for its timber.
- loop of henle — the part of a nephron between the proximal and distal convoluted tubules that extends, in a loop, from the cortex into the medulla of the kidney.