11-letter words containing ala
- 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".
- alarm bells — If you say that something sets alarm bells ringing, you mean that it makes people feel worried or concerned about something.
- alarm clock — An alarm clock is a clock that you can set to make a noise so that it wakes you up at a particular time.
- alaska crab — king crab (def 2).
- alaska time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
- alaska-crab — horseshoe crab.
- antimalaria — acting against or preventing malaria
- appalachian — of, from, or relating to the Appalachian Mountains
- atchafalaya — a river in S central Louisiana, flowing S to an inlet (Atchafalaya Bay) on the Gulf of Mexico; a heavily engineered distributary of the Mississippi. 225 miles (362 km).
- australasia — Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the S Pacific Ocean
- balance lug — a lugsail having a portion of its area forward of the mast and having a long foot, often with a boom.
- balance out — If two or more opposite things balance out or if you balance them out, they become equal in amount, value, or effect.
- calabazilla — a prostrate vine, Cucurbita foetidissima, of the gourd family, native to southwestern North America, having yellow flowers, round, inedible green and yellow fruit, and an unpleasant odor.
- calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- cardinalate — the rank, office, or term of office of a cardinal
- cephalalgia — headache (def 1).
- cephalalgic — relating to or affected by headache
- chalazogamy — (of plants) the process of fertilization whereby the pollen tube penetrates the embryosac through the chalaza rather than through the micropyle
- concealable — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- de-escalate — to reduce the level or intensity of (a crisis, etc)
- deescalated — Simple past tense and past participle of deescalate.
- deescalates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deescalate.
- dharmashala — (in South Asia) a building devoted to religious or charitable purposes, especially a rest house for travelers.
- epithalamia — Plural form of epithalamium.
- epithalamic — Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.
- epithalamus — A part of the dorsal forebrain including the pineal gland and a region in the roof of the third ventricle of the brain.
- equibalance — an equal weight or balance
- escalations — Plural form of escalation.
- exhalations — Plural form of exhalation.
- false alarm — a false report of a fire in progress to a fire department.
- fruit salad — a cold dish consisting of various types of small or cut-up fruit, usually served as a dessert or first course.
- galactocele — A cystic tumor containing milk or a milky substance, usually located in the mammary glands, and caused by a protein plug that blocks off the outlet.
- galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
- galantamine — (organic compound) An alkaloid, obtained synthetically or from various plants, used for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease and various memory impairments.
- galavanting — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
- greek salad — a salad of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, onions, and feta cheese, served with a vinaigrette.
- green salad — salad consisting of lettuce, etc.
- guadalajara — a state in W Mexico. 31,152 sq. mi. (80,685 sq. km). Capital: Guadalajara.
- hard palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- hydralazine — a white crystalline powder, C 8 H 8 N 4 , that dilates blood vessels and is used in the treatment of hypertension.
- hypothalami — Plural form of hypothalamus.
- impalatable — Unpalatable.
- inhalations — Plural form of inhalation.
- intercalary — interpolated; interposed.
- intercalate — to interpolate; interpose.
- kalashnikov — A Kalashnikov is a type of rifle that is made in Russia.
- lalapalooza — lollapalooza.
- makhachkala — an autonomous republic in the SW Russian Federation on the W shore of the Caspian Sea. 19,421 sq. mi. (50,300 sq. km). Capital: Makhachkala. Formerly Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
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