10-letter words that end in al
- archetypal — Someone or something that is archetypal has all the most important characteristics of a particular kind of person or thing and is a perfect example of it.
- argumental — That is based on arguments. Pertaining to arguments.
- aromatical — (rare) aromatic.
- arthrodial — a joint, as in the carpal articulations, in which the surfaces glide over each other in movement.
- artificial — Artificial objects, materials, or processes do not occur naturally and are created by human beings, for example using science or technology.
- artistical — conforming to the standards of art; satisfying aesthetic requirements: artistic productions.
- aspherical — (of a reflecting surface or lens) deviating slightly from a perfectly spherical shape and relatively free from aberrations.
- assonantal — resemblance of sounds.
- asteroidal — relating to asteroids
- atramental — of or relating to ink
- aural-oral — audio-lingual.
- autarkical — of or relating to autarky
- back-pedal — If you back-pedal, you express a different or less forceful opinion about something from the one you have previously expressed.
- balibuntal — closely woven fine straw, used for making hats in the Philippines
- balsamical — Alternative form of balsamic.
- bare metal — 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new computer. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot PROMs and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new computer a real development environment. 2. "Programming on the bare metal" is also used to describe a style of hand-hacking that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, especially tricks for speed and space optimisation that rely on crocks such as overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in The Story of Mel, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimise fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common as the relative costs of programming time and computer resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems, and in the code of hackers who just can't let go of that low-level control. See Real Programmer. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming is often considered a Good Thing, or at least a necessary evil (because these computers have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see ill-behaved). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the BIOS or OS interface and writing the application to directly access device registers and computer addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing well are held in high regard.
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- base metal — A base metal is a metal such as copper, zinc, tin, or lead that is not a precious metal.
- basilectal — (linguistics) of, or relating to a basilect.
- beatifical — Beatific.
- beau ideal — perfect beauty or excellence
- beau-ideal — a conception of perfect beauty.
- behavioral — Behavioral means relating to the behavior of a person or animal, or to the study of their behavior.
- bell metal — an alloy of copper and tin, with some zinc and lead, used in casting bells
- beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
- bequeathal — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bi-lingual — able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
- bicorporal — having two bodies, main divisions, symbols, etc.
- bicultural — having two cultures
- bilharzial — relating to bilharzia
- bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- binational — involving two nations
- biological — Biological is used to describe processes and states that occur in the bodies and cells of living things.
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- biparental — from two parents
- biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
- black opal — any opal of a dark coloration, not necessarily black
- block coal — bituminous coal that breaks into large lumps or cubical blocks.
- blood meal — the dried blood of animals used as a fertilizer, diet supplement for livestock, or deer repellent.
- blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
- bnr pascal — ["Remote Rendezvous", N. Gammage et al, Soft Prac & Exp 17(10):741-755 (Oct 1987)].
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- box social — a fund-raising event at which donated box meals are auctioned
- broad seal — the official seal of a nation and its government
- brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
- cape coral — city in SW Fla.: pop. 102,000