14-letter words containing nc
- invincibleness — The quality of being invincible; unconquerableness; insuperableness.
- irreconcilable — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
- irreconcilably — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
- isle of france — Île-de-France
- kiss principle — /kis' prin'si-pl/ Keep It Simple, Stupid. A maxim often invoked when discussing design to fend off creeping featurism and control complexity of development. Possibly related to the marketroid maxim on sales presentations, "Keep It Short and Simple". See also Occam's Razor.
- lake constance — a lake in W Europe, bounded by S Germany, W Austria, and N Switzerland, through which the Rhine flows. Area: 536 sq km. (207 sq miles)
- lance corporal — U.S. Marine Corps. an enlisted person ranking between private first class and corporal.
- lance sergeant — a sergeant of the lowest rank.
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
- launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space.
- lawrence frame — a gilded frame for a circular or oval painting, having a rectangular exterior form.
- 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
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- legal currency — money that is officially part of a country's currency
- letting agency — a business which leases properties on behalf of their owners
- licence number — an identifying number on a licence or licence plate that identifies it with the owner
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- life-enhancing — If you describe something as life-enhancing, you mean that it makes you feel happier and more content.
- lincoln center — a centre for the performing arts in New York City, including theatres, a library, and a school
- 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.
- loose sentence — a sentence that does not end with the completion of its main clause, but continues with one or more subordinate clauses or other modifiers.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- make allowance — to take circumstances, limitations, etc. into consideration
- malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- mariana trench — a depression in the ocean floor of the Pacific, S and W of the Mariana Islands: site of greatest known depth of any ocean. 36,201 feet (11,034 meters) deep.
- marine science — the branch of science concerned with the sea
- medicine dance — a ritual dance performed by some North American Indians to invoke supernatural assistance as for driving out disease.
- melancholiness — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- mesencephalons — Plural form of mesencephalon.
- metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
- microfinancier — A person or organisation offering microfinance.
- microinsurance — (insurance) A type of microfinancial service aimed at low-income people and communities, and typified by low premiums and coverage limits.
- minor sentence — any sentence that is not a true full sentence; a transformation by deletion from a full sentence.
- misconceptions — Plural form of misconception.
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- mispronouncing — Present participle of mispronounce.
- mispunctuation — incorrect punctuation
- misremembrance — An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
- morris dancing — Morris dancing is a type of old English country dancing which is performed by people wearing special costumes.
- motorola, inc. — (company) One of the world's leading providers of wireless communications, semiconductors and advanced electronic systems and services. Major equipment businesses include mobile telephone, two-way radio, paging and data communications, personal communications, automotive, defense and space electronics, computers, satellite communications systems, police and emergency service radio systems, taxicab dispatching (radio) systems. Communication devices, computers and millions of consumer products are powered by Motorola semiconductors. They are probably best known in the computing world for their microprocessors, including the Motorola 6800 and Motorola 68000 CISC families and Motorola 88000 RISCs, the Motorola DSP56000 digital signal processors and the PowerPC on which they collaborated. They also led the development of VMEbus. Quarterly sales $5400M, profits $367M (Aug 1994). See also Envoy, Monsoon, MPL. Address: Schaumberg, Illinois, USA.
- multi-function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
- myelencephalon — the posterior section of the hindbrain comprising the medulla oblongata.
- new providence — an island in the N Bahamas. 58 sq. mi. (150 sq. km).
- nicene council — either of two church councils that met at Nicaea, the first in a.d. 325 to deal with the Arian heresy, the second in a.d. 787 to consider the question of the veneration of images.
- nomenclatorial — Relating to nomenclature.
- non-acceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.