Words starting with l-a-d
Maybe these words will be useful:
- l-asparaginase — an enzyme that destroys asparagine, a nonessential amino acid needed as a nutrient by rapidly growing cells: used in treating leukemia
- l-soft — An international corporation formed by Eric Thomas, the author of Listserv, to develop it and port it to platforms other than the IBM VM operating system, including Unix. Listserv has been enhanced to use both the Internet and BITNET.
- l- — having an asymmetrical, left-handed spatial arrangement of atoms
- l-beam — an iron or steel bar, brace, or cleat in the form of an angle.
- l-d converter — a vessel in which steel is made from pig iron by blowing oxygen into the molten metal through a water-cooled tube
- l-dopa — Pharmacology. levodopa.
- l-driver — a learner-driver: a person who is learning to drive, has not yet passed the official driving test, and must be accompanied by a qualified driver and display L-plates on the car
- l-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- l-glyceraldehyde — the levorotatory optical isomer of glyceraldehyde.
- l-head engine — an internal-combustion engine having the intake and exhaust valves arranged in a chamber along one side of the pistons.