10-letter words that end in l
- antemedial — Lb entomology Situated before (i.e. closer to the head than) the middle of the thorax or wing.
- anticlinal — of, relating to, or resembling an anticline
- antifungal — inhibiting the growth of fungi
- antimonial — of or containing antimony
- antiphonal — sung or recited in alternation
- antiracial — of or relating to the social construct of race: racial diversity; racial stereotypes.
- antischool — Opposed to schools.
- antisexual — a person opposed to sexuality or sexual activity
- antisocial — Someone who is antisocial is unwilling to meet and be friendly with other people.
- apagogical — proving by apagoge
- aparthotel — a hotel in which self-catering service apartments are available for rent
- aplacental — (of monotremes and marsupials) having no placenta
- apocryphal — An apocryphal story is one which is probably not true or did not happen, but which may give a true picture of someone or something.
- apolitical — Someone who is apolitical is not interested in politics.
- apophyseal — Anatomy, Botany. an outgrowth; process; projection or protuberance.
- apothecial — Lb lichenology Relating to the apothecium.
- appendical — (generally, chiefly of a book's or of books') Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an appendix or appendices.
- approximal — situated side by side; close together
- april fool — An April Fool is a trick that is played on April Fool's Day.
- apterygial — (of eels, certain insects, etc) lacking such paired limbs as wings or fins
- 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.
- argenteuil — a suburb of Paris, France, with a convent (656) that became famous when Héloïse was abbess (12th century). Pop: 103 250 (2008)
- argumental — That is based on arguments. Pertaining to arguments.
- aromatical — (rare) aromatic.
- art school — tertiary level college for students of art
- 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.
- aspen hill — a city in central Maryland.
- 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
- au naturel — naked; nude
- aural-oral — audio-lingual.
- autarkical — of or relating to autarky
- back vowel — a vowel whose sound is produced in the back of the mouth or the throat
- back-pedal — If you back-pedal, you express a different or less forceful opinion about something from the one you have previously expressed.
- back-trail — to backtrack.
- balibuntal — closely woven fine straw, used for making hats in the Philippines
- balsamical — Alternative form of balsamic.
- banana oil — a solution of cellulose nitrate in pentyl acetate or a similar solvent, which has a banana-like smell
- band shell — an outdoor platform for concerts, having a concave, nearly hemispherical back serving as a sounding board
- 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.
- barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
- basal cell — a cell of the basal, or deepest, layer of the epidermis
- base level — the lowest level to which a land surface can be eroded by streams, which is, ultimately, sea level
- 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.