19-letter words containing t, o, s, l, i
- liouville's theorem — the theorem that every function of a complex variable, bounded and differentiable for all finite values of the variable, is a constant function.
- lipschitz condition — the property of a function on a closed interval such that the absolute value of the difference in functional values at any two points in the interval is less than a constant times the absolute value of the difference of the points raised to some positive power m, called the order.
- liquorice all-sorts — a brand of assorted sweets containing liquorice as well as coloured candy made of sugar, gelatine, and coconut
- lobster-tail helmet — a burgonet fitted with a long, articulated tail of lames for protecting the nape of the neck, worn by cavalry in the 17th century.
- locomotive workshop — a place where locomotives are built or repaired
- logical shift right — logical shift
- lose in the shuffle — to leave out or disregard in the confusion of things
- lose no opportunity — If you say that someone loses no opportunity to do or say a particular thing, you are emphasizing that they do it or say it whenever it is possible.
- lose one's shirt on — to lose all one has on (a horse, etc)
- lose your virginity — When you lose your virginity, you have sex for the first time.
- loss on translation — A loss on translation is the amount of money that is lost by a company by converting another currency used in a transaction into the functional currency of the company.
- loss-of-containment — Loss-of-containment happens when a fluid which is usually contained somewhere escapes from that place.
- love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
- low insertion force — (hardware) (LIF) PGA/SPGA sockets with no handle. The integrated circuit is simply pushed into the socket, and levered out to remove. Most motherboard processor sockets are now ZIF rather than LIF.
- lucent technologies — (company, telecommunications, Unix) The former systems and equipment portion of AT&T (including Bell Laboratories), split off in 1996.
- machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
- maestro di cappella — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp a private one attached to the palace of a prince in Italy during the baroque period
- main-topgallantmast — the mast next above the main-topmast.
- malleable cast iron — white cast iron that has been malleablized.
- manual transmission — an automotive transmission in which the driver shifts gears manually.
- massive retaliation — a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
- meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
- mild silver protein — a compound of silver and a protein, applied to mucous membranes as a mild antiseptic.
- miracle of st. mark — a painting (1548) by Tintoretto.
- miscellaneous items — various kinds of thing, esp small purchases
- modulus of rigidity — shear modulus.
- molecular biologist — a specialist in the study of biological phenomena at the molecular level
- moses-in-the-cradle — a plant, Rhoeo spathacea, native to the West Indies and Central America, having leaves with purple undersides and white flowers enclosed in a boat-shaped envelope formed by two bracts.
- 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.
- multidimensionality — The property of being multidimensional.
- multiplication sign — Arithmetic. the symbol (⋅), (×), or (∗) between two mathematical expressions, denoting multiplication of the second expression by the first. In certain algebraic notations the sign is suppressed and multiplication is indicated by immediate juxtaposition or contiguity, as in ab.
- mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
- mutual masturbation — the act of two or more people masturbating each other
- national assistance — (in Britain) formerly a weekly allowance paid to certain people by the state to bring their incomes up to minimum levels established by law
- 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 serviceman — a soldier undertaking compulsory military service
- 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.
- 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
- newtonian telescope — a reflecting telescope in which a mirror or reflecting prism is mounted on the axis near the eyepiece so that the image may be viewed from outside the telescope tube at right angles to the axis.
- 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.
- nominative absolute — a construction consisting in English of a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun in the nominative case followed by a predicate lacking a finite verb, used as a loose modifier of the whole sentence, as the play done in The play done, the audience left the theater.
- non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- non-transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- nonrepresentational — not resembling or portraying any object in physical nature: a nonrepresentational painting.
- nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- normal distribution — a theoretical frequency distribution represented by a normal curve.
- not by a long sight — on no account; not at all
- object-oriented sql — (language) (OSQL) A functional language, a superset of SQL, used in Hewlett-Packard's OpenODB database system.