16-letter words containing la
- micromanipulator — A device, used for micromanipulation, consisting of microscopic needles and instruments viewed through a microscope.
- microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
- middle latitudes — the latitude of the point that is midway between two parallels on the same side of the equator.
- missile launcher — system that fires missiles
- mittelland canal — a canal in Germany, linking the Rivers Rhine and Elbe. Length: 325 km (202 miles)
- modern icelandic — the Icelandic language since c1550.
- modern languages — languages currently spoken
- modular language — (language) (Modula) Wirth's 1977 predecessor of Modula-2. The original Modula was, more oriented toward concurrent programming, but otherwise quite similar.
- molecular volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a substance
- molecular weight — the average weight of a molecule of an element or compound measured in units once based on the weight of one hydrogen atom taken as the standard or on 1/16 (0.0625) the weight of an oxygen atom, but after 1961 based on 1/12 (0.083) the weight of the carbon-12 atom; the sum of the atomic weights of all the atoms in a molecule. Abbreviation: mol. wt.
- mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
- money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
- monoethanolamine — Monoethanolamine is an amino acid used as a surfactant (= a substance that reduces the surface tension of a liquid and allows it to foam or penetrate solids).
- monosyllabically — In single syllables.
- morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
- mortgagee clause — a clause attached to a fire-insurance policy for protecting a mortgagee against loss or damage.
- motorola 68lc040 — (processor) A version of the Motorola 68040 with no MMU or FPU, making it more like an enhanced Motorola 68020. A Power Macintosh can emulate a Motorola 68LC040.
- moving violation — any of various traffic violations committed while a vehicle is in motion, as speeding, driving through a red light, or going the wrong direction on a one-way street.
- multicellularity — The condition of being multicellular.
- multituberculate — a rodentlike mammal of the extinct order Multituberculata, which lived from the late Jurassic Period to the Oligocene Epoch, reaching the size of a woodchuck and having molars with two or three rows of simple pointed cusps.
- munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
- nassella tussock — type of tussock grass
- natural language — a language used as a native tongue by a group of speakers.
- necklace killing — an instance in which someone is killed by a burning tyre that has been placed around his or her neck.
- never-never land — an unreal, imaginary, or ideal state, condition, place, etc.
- new philadelphia — a city in E Ohio.
- nicholas of cusa — 1401–64, German cardinal, philosopher, and mathematician: anticipated Copernicus in asserting that the earth revolves around the sun
- nicoya peninsula — a peninsula in NW Costa Rica, on the Pacific Ocean.
- nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
- non-accumulative — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
- non-assimilation — the act or process of assimilating, or of absorbing information, experiences, etc.: the need for quick assimilation of the facts.
- non-availability — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
- non-inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- non-reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
- nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
- north lauderdale — a city in SE Florida.
- north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- northern ireland — a political division of the United Kingdom, in the NE part of the island of Ireland. 5238 sq. mi. (13,565 sq. km). Capital: Belfast.
- nuclear umbrella — a guarantee from a country or state that possesses nuclear weapons to a country that does not that they will defend them
- occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
- ocellated turkey — a wild turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, of Yucatán, Belize, and Guatemala, typically having green, blue, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and eyelike spots on the tail.
- oil installation — a facility or place where petroleum is extracted for industrial purposes
- on its last legs — about to fail
- one's salad days — If you refer to your salad days, you are referring to a period of your life when you were young and inexperienced.
- open scholarship — a scholarship which anyone can apply for
- orange marmalade — preserve made from oranges
- organ transplant — an operation in which an organ is transplanted from a donor
- organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
- osculating plane — the plane containing the circle of curvature of a point on a given curve.
- otolaryngologist — Otorhinolaryngologist.