16-letter words containing ca
- infant education — (in England and Wales) education provided for children at infant schools
- intensifications — Plural form of intensification.
- intercalibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- intercommunicate — to communicate mutually, as people.
- internal capsule — a broad band of white fibres near the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
- intervocalically — (phonology) Between vowels.
- inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
- journalistically — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- judas maccabaeus — Judas or Judah [joo-duh] /ˈdʒu də/ (Show IPA), ("the Hammer") died c. 160 b.c, Judean patriot, one of the Maccabees: military leader 166–160 (son of Mattathias).
- karyokinetically — In a karyokinetic manner; by means of karyokinesis.
- keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
- kilogram calorie — kilocalorie.
- kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
- la rochefoucauld — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
- lambada-calculus — (humour, logic) (A pun on "lambda-calculus") Teaching logic thru spanish dance steps. Invented by P. van der Linden <[email protected]>.
- lancashire chair — a chair similar to a Windsor chair, having a rush seat and a back formed of spindles.
- laparoscopically — By means of laparoscopy.
- least flycatcher — a small flycatcher, Empidonax minimus, of eastern North America.
- lettre de cachet — a letter under the seal of the sovereign, especially one ordering imprisonment, frequently without trial.
- lever escapement — an escapement in which a pivoted lever, made to oscillate by the escape wheel, engages a balance staff and causes it to oscillate.
- lexical analyser — (language) (Or "scanner") The initial input stage of a language processor (e.g. a compiler), the part that performs lexical analysis.
- lexical analysis — (programming) (Or "linear analysis", "scanning") The first stage of processing a language. The stream of characters making up the source program or other input is read one at a time and grouped into lexemes (or "tokens") - word-like pieces such as keywords, identifiers, literals and punctuation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser.
- like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
- literalistically — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
- lithographically — In the manner of lithography.
- liturgical drama — medieval drama, based on incidents in the Bible and performed in churches on holy days, usually in Latin and often chanted.
- liturgical latin — the Latin characteristic of the liturgies of the Western Church.
- local government — the administration of the civic affairs of a city, town, or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large.
- local oscillator — the oscillator in a superheterodyne receiver whose output frequency is mixed with the incoming modulated radio-frequency carrier signal to produce the required intermediate frequency
- logical constant — one of the connectives of a given system of formal logic, esp those of the sentential calculus, not, and, or, and if … then …
- logical operator — any of the Boolean symbols or functions, as AND, OR, and NOT, denoting a Boolean operation; Boolean operator.
- logical relation — A relation R satisfying f R g <=> For all a, b, a R b => f a R g b This definition, by Plotkin, can be used to extend the definition of a relation on the types of a and b to a relation on functions.
- logical unit 6.2 — (networking) (LU6.2) A type of logical unit that governs peer-to-peer SNA communications. LU6.2 supports general communication between programs in a distributed processing environment. LU6.2 is characterised by a peer relationship between session partners, efficient use of a session for multiple transactions, comprehensive end-to-end error processing and a generic application program interface consisting of structured verbs that are mapped into a product inplementation. LU6.2 is used by IBM's TPF operating system.
- low-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.04 and 0.25 per cent carbon
- lower california — Baja California.
- lucas van leyden — (Lucas Hugensz) 1494–1533, Dutch painter and engraver.
- macapagal arroyo — Gloria
- mad-dog skullcap — a North American skullcap, Scutellaria lateriflora, having underground stems and one-sided clusters of blue to white flowers.
- magical thinking — a conviction that thinking is equivalent to doing, occurring in dreams, the thought patterns of children, and some types of mental disorders, especially obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- maine coon (cat) — any of a breed of domestic cat, thought to have been developed in Maine, with a thick, smooth, silky coat and a bushy tail
- majority carrier — the entity responsible for carrying the greater part of the current in a semiconductor. In n-type semiconductors the majority carriers are electrons; in p-type semiconductors they are positively charged holes
- mammographically — Using a mammograph, by means of mammograph.
- medical examiner — a physician or other person trained in medicine who is appointed by a city, county, or the like, to perform autopsies on the bodies of persons supposed to have died from unnatural causes and to investigate the cause and circumstances of such deaths.
- medicine cabinet — cupboard where medication is stored
- megalomaniacally — In a megalomaniacal manner.
- melodramatically — In a melodramatic manner.
- memoria technica — a method or device for assisting the memory
- mercantile paper — commercial paper.
- mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
- meristematically — In a meristematic way.