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16-letter words that end in l

  • inofficious will — a will inconsistent with the moral duty and natural affection of the testator, especially one denying the legitimate heirs the portions of the estate to which they are legally entitled.
  • instrument panel — Also called instrument board. a panel on which are mounted an array of dials, lights, and gauges that monitor the performance of a machine or device, as an airplane.
  • intentional foul — a foul deliberately committed by a defensive player to stop play, tactically conceding the penalty of having the fouled player attempt the awarded foul shots in return for possession of the ball.
  • inter-divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
  • interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
  • interconsonantal — immediately following a consonant and preceding a consonant, as the a in pat.
  • intercontinental — between or among continents; involving two or more continents: intercontinental trade.
  • interdimensional — Between dimensions.
  • interministerial — pertaining to the ministry of religion, or to a minister or other member of the clergy.
  • interpretational — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
  • interterritorial — existing between territories: interterritorial laws.
  • intertestamental — of or relating to the period between the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament.
  • intimate apparel — lingerie (sense 2)
  • japanese bobtail — any of a breed of domestic cat, originating in Japan, with a very short, fluffy tail, and a soft, silky coat often in three colors, white, black, and red
  • japanese spaniel — former name of Japanese Chin.
  • king of the hill — a game in which each player attempts to climb to the top of some point, as a mound of earth, and to prevent all others from pushing or pulling him or her off the top.
  • lazy standard ml — (language)   (LSML) A lazy varient of SML, allowing cyclic val definitions, by Prateek Mishra <[email protected]>. Not to be confused with LML.
  • long-wire aerial — a travelling-wave aerial consisting of one or more conductors, the length of which usually exceeds several wavelengths
  • low-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.04 and 0.25 per cent carbon
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • metamathematical — Pertaining to metamathematics, a branch of mathematics dealing with mathematical systems and their nature.
  • mineral charcoal — a fibrous substance resembling charcoal and having a high carbon content, often occurring in thin layers in bituminous coal.
  • mission-critical — essential for a project to launch
  • mittelland canal — a canal in Germany, linking the Rivers Rhine and Elbe. Length: 325 km (202 miles)
  • molotov cocktail — a crude incendiary grenade consisting of a bottle filled with a flammable liquid and a wick that is ignited before throwing: used originally for setting fire to enemy tanks during the Spanish Civil War.
  • monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
  • multidimensional — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
  • nature-identical — manufactured to be identical to a natural substance
  • neurohypophyseal — Relating to the neurohypophysis.
  • neurohypophysial — Relating to the neurohypophysis.
  • non-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • non-coincidental — happening by or resulting from coincidence; by chance: a coincidental meeting.
  • non-confidential — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • non-conventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
  • non-experiential — pertaining to or derived from experience.
  • non-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
  • non-genealogical — the study of family ancestries and histories.
  • non-geographical — of or relating to geography.
  • non-hierarchical — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
  • non-instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
  • non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • nonarchitectural — Not architectural.
  • noncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • nonfiction novel — a narrative dealing with real events and people, written in the form of a novel.
  • noninstitutional — Not institutional; not having the usual characteristics of an institution.
  • nonphysiological — of or relating to physiology.
  • nuncupative will — a will made by the oral and unwritten declaration of the testator, valid only in special circumstances.
  • objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
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