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11-letter words containing r, i

  • air chamber — a compartment in a device or structure that is filled with air
  • air cleaner — a filter that prevents dust and other particles from entering the air-intake of an internal-combustion engine
  • air command — the Canadian air force
  • air current — a mass of air moving from one area to another
  • air curtain — an air stream across a doorway to exclude draughts, etc
  • air cushion — an inflatable cushion, usually made of rubber or plastic
  • air express — the rapid transportation of goods and documents by aircraft
  • air freight — freight transported by aircraft
  • air hostess — An air hostess is a woman whose job is to look after the passengers in an aircraft.
  • air marshal — a senior Royal Air Force officer of equivalent rank to a vice admiral in the Royal Navy
  • air officer — a term used to denote the appointment of any officer in the Royal Air Force above the rank of Air Commodore to a position of command
  • air passage — a space occupied or traversed by air.
  • air quality — the composition of the air in terms of how much pollution it contains
  • air service — the services performed by an airline, as flights between various destinations to transport passengers, freight, and mail.
  • air shuttle — a shuttle service operated by aircraft, usually covering short routes with frequent flights
  • air sprayer — a pneumatic sprayer.
  • air station — an airfield, usually smaller than an airport but having facilities for the maintenance of aircraft
  • air steward — a steward on an airliner
  • air surfing — surfing that involves aerial stunts
  • air traffic — the organized movement of aircraft within a given space
  • air turbine — a small turbine driven by compressed air, esp one used as a starter for engines
  • air vesicle — a large air-filled intercellular space in some aquatic plants
  • air waybill — a document made out by the consignor of goods by air freight giving details of the goods and the name of the consignee
  • air-breathe — (of an engine, aircraft, missile, etc.) to take in air from the atmosphere to oxidize the fuel for combustion.
  • air-express — to send or transport by air express: Your package will be air-expressed and should reach its destination tomorrow.
  • air-shipped — to send or ship via aircraft: to air-ship machine parts overseas.
  • air-sprayed — sprayed by means of compressed air
  • airboarding — a snow sport in which participants slide down slopes headfirst lying flat on an inflatable board
  • airbrushing — Present participle of airbrush.
  • aircraftman — a serviceman of the most junior rank in the RAF
  • aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
  • airdropping — Present participle of airdrop.
  • airlessness — The state or condition of being poorly ventilated; lacking good air circulation, having stale air.
  • airport bus — a public bus that takes passengers to and from the airport, usually connecting the city centre and (at a large airport) the different terminals
  • airport tax — Airport tax is a tax that airline passengers have to pay in order to use an airport.
  • airsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the aircraft in which one is traveling.
  • airwaybills — Plural form of airwaybill.
  • alabastrine — a finely granular variety of gypsum, often white and translucent, used for ornamental objects or work, such as lamp bases, figurines, etc.
  • alan turing — (person)   Alan M. Turing, 1912-06-22/3? - 1954-06-07. A British mathematician, inventor of the Turing Machine. Turing also proposed the Turing test. Turing's work was fundamental in the theoretical foundations of computer science. Turing was a student and fellow of King's College Cambridge and was a graduate student at Princeton University from 1936 to 1938. While at Princeton Turing published "On Computable Numbers", a paper in which he conceived an abstract machine, now called a Turing Machine. Turing returned to England in 1938 and during World War II, he worked in the British Foreign Office. He masterminded operations at Bletchley Park, UK which were highly successful in cracking the Nazis "Enigma" codes during World War II. Some of his early advances in computer design were inspired by the need to perform many repetitive symbolic manipulations quickly. Before the building of the Colossus computer this work was done by a roomful of women. In 1945 he joined the National Physical Laboratory in London and worked on the design and construction of a large computer, named Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). In 1949 Turing became deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester where the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, the worlds largest memory computer, was being built. He also worked on theories of artificial intelligence, and on the application of mathematical theory to biological forms. In 1952 he published the first part of his theoretical study of morphogenesis, the development of pattern and form in living organisms. Turing was gay, and died rather young under mysterious circumstances. He was arrested for violation of British homosexuality statutes in 1952. He died of potassium cyanide poisoning while conducting electrolysis experiments. An inquest concluded that it was self-administered but it is now thought by some to have been an accident. There is an excellent biography of Turing by Andrew Hodges, subtitled "The Enigma of Intelligence" and a play based on it called "Breaking the Code". There was also a popular summary of his work in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach".
  • albert nile — a river in NW Uganda: part of the upper Nile River.
  • albertville — former name of Kalemie.
  • albuminuria — the presence of albumin in the urine
  • albuminuric — related to the state of albuminuria
  • alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
  • aldermanity — the body of aldermen
  • alessandria — a town in NW Italy, in Piedmont. Pop: 85 438 (2001)
  • alexander i — c. 1080–1124, king of Scotland (1107–24), son of Malcolm III
  • alexandrian — of or relating to Alexander the Great
  • alexandrina — a female given name, form of Alexandra.
  • alexandrine — a line of verse having six iambic feet, usually with a caesura after the third foot
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