11-letter words containing t, r, i
- aggregative — aggregating or tending to aggregate
- aggrupation — (Philippines) A group, an organization.
- agrammatism — a type of aphasia, usually caused by cerebral disease, characterized by an inability to construct a grammatical or intelligible sentence while retaining the ability to speak single words.
- agrammatist — One suffering from agrammatism.
- agriculture — Agriculture is farming and the methods that are used to raise and look after crops and animals.
- agriproduct — a product that is a result of agribusiness
- agritourism — tourism in which customers stay in accommodation on working farms and may have the opportunity to help with farm work
- agronomists — Plural form of agronomist.
- agrotourism — tourism in which tourists take part in farm or village activities, as animal and crop care, cooking and cleaning, handicrafts, and entertainments.
- aguardiente — any inferior brandy or similar spirit, esp from Spain, Portugal, or South America
- ahistorical — not related to history; not historical
- air attache — a commissioned officer or warrant officer of an air force serving on the staff of an ambassador or minister.
- air battery — a set of two or more air cells connected together to supply electricity.
- 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 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 quality — the composition of the air in terms of how much pollution it contains
- air shuttle — a shuttle service operated by aircraft, usually covering short routes with frequent flights
- 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 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-breathe — (of an engine, aircraft, missile, etc.) to take in air from the atmosphere to oxidize the fuel for combustion.
- aircraftman — a serviceman of the most junior rank in the RAF
- aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
- 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.
- 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.
- aldermanity — the body of aldermen
- alexandrite — a green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone
- algesimeter — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
- algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
- aliturgical — designating those days on which the celebration of certain liturgies, especially the Eucharist, is forbidden.
- alkalimeter — an apparatus for determining the concentration of alkalis in solution
- alkalimetry — determination of the amount of alkali or base in a solution, measured by an alkalimeter or by volumetric analysis
- all-nighter — an entertainment, such as a pop concert or film screening, that lasts all night
- all-terrain — designed to travel on all types of ground, including rough ground
- alleviators — Plural form of alleviator.
- alleviatory — having the ability to reduce or moderate the severity of something
- alligatored — Damaged by alligatoring.
- alliterated — Simple past tense and past participle of alliterate.
- allocentric — Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
- allotropism — a property of certain elements, as carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus, of existing in two or more distinct forms; allomorphism.
- aloha shirt — Hawaiian shirt
- alpha tauri — Aldebaran
- altair 8800 — (computer) An Intel 8080-based machine made by MITS. The Altair was the first popular microcomputer kit. It appeared on the cover of the January 1975 "Popular Electronics" magazine with an article (probably) by Leslie Solomon. Leslie Solomon was an editor at Popular Electronics who had a knack for spotting kits that would interest people and make them buy the magazine. The Altair 8800 was one such. The MITS guys took the prototype Altair to New York to show Solomon, but couldn't get it to work after the flight. Nonetheless, he liked it, and it appeared on the cover as "The first minicomputer in a kit." Solomon's blessing was important enough that some MITS competitors named their product the "SOL" to gain his favour. Some wags suggested SOL was actually an abbreviation for the condition in which kit purchasers would find themselves. The original Altair BASIC ran in less than 4K of RAM because a "loaded" Altair had 4K memory. Since there was no operating system on the Altair, Altair BASIC included what we now think of as BIOS. It was distributed on paper tape that could be read on a Teletype. Later versions supported the 8K Altair and the 16K diskette-based Altair (demonstrating that, even in the 1970s, Microsoft was committed to software bloat). Altair BASIC was ported to the Motorola 6800 for the Altair 680 machine, and to other 8080-based microcomputers produced by MITS' competitors.