11-letter words containing ng
- airbrushing — Present participle of airbrush.
- airdropping — Present participle of airdrop.
- 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".
- alchemizing — Present participle of alchemize.
- alkalifying — Present participle of alkalify.
- alleviating — to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain.
- allowancing — Present participle of allowance.
- alternating — happening in succession
- amazingness — The state or quality, of being amazing.
- ambiguating — Present participle of ambiguate.
- ambitioning — an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment: Too much ambition caused him to be disliked by his colleagues.
- ambuscading — Present participle of ambuscade.
- ammonifying — Present participle of ammonify.
- amusingness — the quality or state of being amusing
- anagramming — a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.
- analogizing — Present participle of analogize.
- anatomizing — Present participle of anatomize.
- anchor ring — a ring made from an iron bar of circular cross-section
- angel falls — a waterfall in SE Venezuela, on the Caroní River; regarded as the highest in the world. Height: 979 m (3212 ft)
- angel light — (in an English Perpendicular window) a compartment, approximately triangular, formed by the arch of the window, an arch of a lower tier of tracery, and a mullion of an upper tier of tracery.
- angel shark — any of several sharks constituting the family Squatinidae, such as Squatina squatina, that have very large flattened pectoral fins and occur in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
- angelically — of or belonging to angels: the angelic host.
- angelicness — The state or quality of being angelic.
- angelolatry — the worship of angels
- angelophany — the appearance of an angel before a human
- angiography — a method of obtaining an X-ray of blood vessels by injecting into them a substance, such as one containing iodine, that shows up as opaque on an X-ray picture
- angiomatous — a benign tumor consisting chiefly of dilated or newly formed blood vessels (hemangioma) or lymph vessels (lymphangioma)
- angioplasty — a surgical technique for restoring normal blood flow through an artery narrowed or blocked by atherosclerosis, either by inserting a balloon into the narrowed section and inflating it or by using a laser beam
- angioscopes — Plural form of angioscope.
- angiostatin — a naturally occurring protein that inhibits endothelial proliferation and interferes with the growth of new blood vessels, investigated for use as an anticancer drug.
- angiotensin — a peptide of physiological importance that is capable of causing constriction of blood vessels, which raises blood pressure
- angkor thom — the site of the ruined capital city of the Khmer empire, at Angkor.
- angle board — a board serving as a gauge for an angle planed across the end of other boards.
- angle cleat — a short length of angle iron used as a bracket.
- angle plate — a steel structural plate, esp one in the shape of a right-angled triangle, used to connect structural members and stiffen frameworks
- anglicanism — Anglicanism is the beliefs and practices of the Church of England, and of the churches related to it.
- anglicizing — Present participle of anglicize.
- anglo-asian — An Anglo-Asian person is someone of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi origin who has grown up in Britain.
- anglo-irish — the English language as spoken in Ireland
- anglo-latin — Medieval Latin as used in England. Abbreviation: AL, AL., A.L.
- anglo-saxon — The Anglo-Saxon period is the period of English history from the fifth century A.D. to the Norman Conquest in 1066.
- anglophilia — extreme admiration for England or its people, culture, customs, influence, etc.
- anglophilic — Alternative capitalization of Anglophilic.
- anglophobia — hatred or fear of England or its people, culture, customs, influence, etc.
- anglophones — Plural form of anglophone.
- anglophonic — of or relating to English speakers
- anglosphere — a group of English-speaking countries that share common roots in British culture and history, usually the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada
- angora goat — a breed of domestic goat with long soft hair
- angora wool — Angora (def 2).
- anguishment — Anguish.