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14-letter words containing u, l, t, e, r, i

  • liquiritigenin — (organic compound) A flavanone found in a variety of plants including liquorice.
  • little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
  • liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
  • living picture — tableau (def 3).
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
  • low-resolution — of or relating to CRTs, printers, or other visual output devices that produce images that are not sharply defined (opposed to high-resolution).
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • material cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • maturity value — The maturity value of a life insurance policy is the amount of money that is paid out when it matures.
  • maturity yield — Finance. the rate of return on a bond expressed as a percentage that accounts for the difference between the interest earned based on current market value and that earned if the bond is held to maturity.
  • mcclure strait — an arm of the Beaufort Sea between Banks Island in the south and Melville Island and Eglinton Island to the north, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. About 170 miles (270 km) long and 60 miles (90 km) wide.
  • merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
  • meretriciously — In a meretricious manner.
  • metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
  • microevolution — evolutionary change involving the gradual accumulation of mutations leading to new varieties within a species.
  • milieu therapy — a type of inpatient therapy, used in psychiatric hospitals, involving prescription of particular activities and social interactions according to a patient's emotional and interpersonal needs.
  • miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • milling cutter — any of various rotating toothed cutters used in a milling machine to cut or shape metal parts
  • miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
  • mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
  • multarticulate — having multiple joints
  • multi-cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
  • multi-part key — compound key
  • multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
  • multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
  • multicharacter — (of a book, play, film, etc) involving or relating to several characters
  • multicollinear — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting multicollinearity.
  • multielectrode — having or involving several electrodes
  • multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
  • multigrade oil — Multigrade oil is engine or gear oil which works well at both low and high temperatures.
  • multilaterally — In a multilateral manner.
  • multimolecular — (chemistry, physics) Involving multiple molecules.
  • multiparameter — Having, or employing multiple parameters.
  • multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
  • multiple drill — a drilling machine having a number of vertical spindles for drilling several holes in a piece simultaneously.
  • multiple fruit — a fruit, such as a pineapple, formed from the ovaries of individual flowers in an inflorescence
  • multiple store — chain store.
  • multiprocessor — parallel processing
  • multireligious — belonging to or following more than one religion
  • multithreading — (parallel)   Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
  • multiversities — Plural form of multiversity.
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