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14-letter words containing lan

  • in the balance — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
  • inclined plane — one of the simple machines, a plane surface inclined to the horizon, or forming with a horizontal plane any angle but a right angle. Compare machine (def 4b).
  • indemnity plan — An indemnity plan is a healthcare plan that allows policyholders to choose any healthcare provider they wish, and charges them a fee depending on the rules of the policy.
  • indie landfill — a derogatory term for indie music considered to be mediocre
  • inland passage — Inside Passage
  • inland revenue — UK tax collection agency
  • interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
  • interplanetary — being or occurring between the planets or between a planet and the sun.
  • ionian islands — a group of Greek islands including Corfu, Levkas, Ithaca, Cephalonia, Paxos, and Zante off the W coast of Greece, and Cerigo off the S coast.
  • isabela island — an island in the Pacific Ocean, off the W coast of South America: the largest of the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. 2250 sq. mi. (5827 sq. km).
  • island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
  • lacrimal gland — either of two tear-secreting glands situated in the upper outer angle of the orbit.
  • lagoon islands — a former name of Tuvalu.
  • lance corporal — U.S. Marine Corps. an enlisted person ranking between private first class and corporal.
  • lance sergeant — a sergeant of the lowest rank.
  • land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
  • landing beacon — a radio transmitter that emits a landing beam
  • landing ground — airfield
  • landing lights — aircraft lights used when landing
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • landing-waiter — landwaiter.
  • landscape mode — a wide exposure suitable for photographing landscapes
  • language death — the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers.
  • langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • languorousness — The quality of being languorous.
  • lantern pinion — a wheel, used like a pinion, consisting essentially of two parallel disks or heads whose peripheries are connected by a series of bars that engage with the teeth of another wheel.
  • lanterne rouge — a notional award given to the competitor who finishes last in a cycle race
  • leclanché cell — a primary cell with a carbon anode, surrounded by crushed carbon and manganese dioxide in a porous container, immersed in an electrolyte of aqueous ammonium chloride into which the zinc cathode dips. The common dry battery is a form of Leclanché cell
  • leland hayward — Leland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • lipari islands — a group of volcanic islands under Italian administration off the N coast of Sicily: remains that form a continuous record from Neolithic times. Chief town: Lipari. Pop: 10 554 (2001). Area: 114 sq km (44 sq miles)
  • lipstick plant — any of several trailing, epiphytic vines of the genus Aeschynanthus, of the gesneria family, especially A. pulcher or A. radicans, native to southeast Asia, having tubular red or orange flowers.
  • llano estacado — a large plateau in the SW United States, in W Texas and SE New Mexico: cattle-grazing region. About 1000–5000 feet (300–1500 meters) above sea level.
  • load balancing — (operating system, parallel)   Techniques which aim to spread tasks among the processors in a parallel processor to avoid some processors being idle while others have tasks queueing for execution. Load balancing may be performed either by heavily loaded processors (with many tasks in their queues) sending tasks to other processors; by idle processors requesting work from others; by some centralised task distribution mechanism; or some combination of these. Some systems allow tasks to be moved after they have started executing ("task migration") others do not. It is important that the overhead of executing the load balancing algorithm does not contribute significantly to the overall processing or communications load. Distributed scheduling algorithms may be static, dynamic or preemptive. Static algorithms allocate processes to processors at run time while taking no account of current network load. Dynamic algorithms are more flexible, though more computationally expensive, and give some consideration to the network load before allocating the new process to a processor. Preemptive algorithms are more expensive and flexible still, and may migrate running processes from one host to another if deemed beneficial. Research to date indicates that dynamic algorithms yield significant performance benefits, but that further (though lesser) gains may be had through the addition of process migration facilities.
  • lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
  • mainland china — the People's Republic of China, as distinguished from Taiwan.
  • masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • melancholiness — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
  • melanospermous — having dark spores, as certain seaweeds.
  • merritt island — a town in E Florida.
  • middle england — Journalists use Middle England to refer to middle class people in England who are believed not to like change.
  • midway islands — an atoll in the central Pacific, about 2100 km (1300 miles) northwest of Honolulu: annexed by the US in 1867: scene of a decisive battle (June, 1942), in which the US combined fleets destroyed Japan's carrier fleet. Pop: 40 (2013 est). Area: 5 sq km (2 sq miles)
  • minicoy island — a small island in the S Laccadive Islands, off the SW coast of India. 1.25 sq. mi. (3.24 sq. km).
  • miscellanarian — a person who writes miscellanies
  • mixed language — any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages
  • monopropellant — a substance for propelling rockets that is a mixture of fuel and oxidizer.
  • negri sembilan — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 2580 sq. mi. (6682 sq. km). Capital: Seremban.
  • neo-melanesian — a pidgin language based on English and spoken in Melanesia, New Guinea, and NE Australia.
  • new netherland — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
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