19-letter words that end in n
- lagrangian function — kinetic potential.
- lay one's finger on — to indicate, identify, or locate accurately
- leading aircraftman — the rank above aircraftman
- leave the door open — a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
- let one's hair down — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- lift the curtain on — to begin
- lighten sb's burden — If someone or something lightens your burden or your load, they make a bad or difficult situation better for you.
- limit of resolution — the capacity of an optical system to resolve point objects as separate images.
- line of demarcation — a separation between things deemed to be distinct
- linear polarization — polarization of light in which the vibrations are confined to a single plane, that of the wave front.
- lipschitz condition — the property of a function on a closed interval such that the absolute value of the difference in functional values at any two points in the interval is less than a constant times the absolute value of the difference of the points raised to some positive power m, called the order.
- look sb up and down — If someone looks you up and down, they direct their eyes from your head to your feet, in a rude and superior way and often as though they disapprove of you.
- lose one's shirt on — to lose all one has on (a horse, etc)
- loss on translation — A loss on translation is the amount of money that is lost by a company by converting another currency used in a transaction into the functional currency of the company.
- louis ii de bourbon — Condé, Prince de.
- lymphoproliferation — (medicine) the excessive production of lymphocytes.
- machine instruction — (programming) The smallest element of a machine code program.
- machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
- magnetic levitation — the suspension of an object above or below a second object by means of magnetic repulsion or attraction.
- malleable cast iron — white cast iron that has been malleablized.
- managed competition — a strategy for healthcare delivery whereby costs are reduced by fostering competition between providers of managed-care contracts for large employers.
- manual transmission — an automotive transmission in which the driver shifts gears manually.
- market segmentation — the division of a market into identifiable groups, esp to improve the effectiveness of a marketing strategy
- massive retaliation — a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
- maturation division — a stage in meiosis during which the chromosomal number of the reproductive cell is reduced to one chromosome from each original chromosome pair.
- means of production — resources: equipment, workers
- medical examination — physical examination
- membership function — fuzzy subset
- mercator projection — a conformal projection on which any rhumb line is represented as a straight line, used chiefly in navigation, though the scale varies with latitude and areal size and the shapes of large areas are greatly distorted.
- metropolitanization — to make metropolitan.
- midnight regulation — a rule or directive approved by the federal government near the end of a president’s term of office
- mild silver protein — a compound of silver and a protein, applied to mucous membranes as a mild antiseptic.
- military pentathlon — an athletic contest comprising five different events, a 300-meter freestyle swim, a 4000-meter cross-country run, a 5000-meter equestrian steeplechase, épée fencing, and pistol target-shooting at 25 meters, the winner being the contestant with the highest total score.
- millennium meltdown — Year 2000
- mine of information — source of great knowledge
- mischaracterization — The act of characterizing something in an inaccurate or misleading way.
- missionary position — a position for sexual intercourse in which the couple lies face to face with the male on top.
- most favored nation — a nation to which privileges of trade are extended under a government policy of giving the same privileges to all nations that are given to any one of them, sometimes depending on whether certain conditions, as of reciprocity, are met
- most-favored-nation — of or relating to the status, treatment, terms, etc., that are embodied in or conferred by a most-favored-nation clause.
- multiplication sign — Arithmetic. the symbol (⋅), (×), or (∗) between two mathematical expressions, denoting multiplication of the second expression by the first. In certain algebraic notations the sign is suppressed and multiplication is indicated by immediate juxtaposition or contiguity, as in ab.
- mutual masturbation — the act of two or more people masturbating each other
- national convention — French History. the legislature of France 1792–95.
- national serviceman — a soldier undertaking compulsory military service
- necessary condition — prerequisite
- network termination — (NT, NT1) A device connecting the customer's data or telephone equipment to the local ISDN exchange carrier's line. The NT device provides a connection for terminal equipment (TE) and terminal adaptor (TA) equipment to the local loop.
- neville chamberlain — (Arthur) Neville, 1869–1940, British statesman: prime minister 1937–40.
- new year resolution — a promise to yourself or decision to do something, especially to improve one's behaviour or lifestyle in some way, during the year ahead
- no-write allocation — (memory management) A cache policy where only processor reads are cached, thus avoiding the need for write-back or write-through.
- non-standardization — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.