18-letter words containing ll
- geiger-muller tube — a tube functioning as an ionization chamber within a Geiger counter.
- gravitational pull — force of gravity
- greater yellowlegs — either of two American shorebirds having yellow legs, Tringa melanoleuca (greater yellowlegs) or T. flavipes (lesser yellowlegs)
- grist for the mill — If you say that something is grist for the mill, you mean that it is useful for a particular purpose or helps support someone's point of view.
- gulliver's travels — a social and political satire (1726) by Jonathan Swift, narrating the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to four imaginary regions: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms.
- hawksbill (turtle) — a medium-sized marine turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata, family Cheloniidae) having a hawklike beak and a horny shell from which tortoise shell is obtained
- hell or high water — whatever difficulties may arise
- hidalgo y costilla — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1753–1811, Mexican priest, patriot, and revolutionist.
- hyper-intellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- i'll eat my hat if — I will be greatly surprised if (something happens that proves me wrong)
- i'll give you that — You say I'll give you that to indicate that you admit that someone has a particular characteristic or ability.
- idylls of the king — a series of poems by Tennyson, based on Arthurian legend.
- in all probability — the quality or fact of being probable.
- in praise of folly — Latin Moriae Encomium. a prose satire (1509) by Erasmus, written in Latin and directed against theologians and church dignitaries.
- in-band signalling — (communications) (Or CAS, channel associated signaling) Transmission of control signals in the same channel as data. This is commonly used in the Public Switched Telephone Network where the same pair of wires carry both voice and control signals (e.g. dialling, ringing). Another example is the use on a computer serial line of Control-S and Control-Q characters for flow control as opposed to hardware flow control which would be out-of-band signalling. In digital communications, in-band signalling often uses "bit-robbing" where, for example, one bit in each frame is used for signalling instead of data. This is the reason why a D1 channel in the T-carrier system can only carry 56 Kbps of usable data instead of the 64 Kbps carried by the D0 channel in the E-carrier system.
- intelligence agent — a person who works for an intelligence agency; a spy
- intelligence corps — a military department that gathers and analyzes information
- intelligent design — the theory that the universe and living things were designed and created by the purposeful action of an intelligent agent. Abbreviation: ID.
- interstellar space — astronomy: space between the stars
- isabella of france — 1292–1358, wife (1308–27) of Edward II of England, whom, aided by her lover, Roger de Mortimer, she deposed; mother of Edward III
- isidore of seville — Saint (Isidorus Hispalensis) a.d. c570–636, Spanish archbishop, historian, and encyclopedist.
- jack of all trades — a person who is adept at many different kinds of work.
- jack-of-all-trades — a person who is adept at many different kinds of work.
- jacksonville beach — a city in NE Florida.
- jacobite rebellion — the unsuccessful Jacobite rising of 1715 led by James Francis Edward Stuart
- jet-enamelled ware — English Worcester porcelain ware of the 18th century, transfer-printed in black.
- kill with kindness — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
- killer application — a highly innovative, very powerful, or extremely useful computer application; esp one sufficiently important as to justify purchase of the equipment or software
- king william's war — the war (1689–97) in which England and its American colonies and Indian allies opposed France and its Indian allies and which constituted the American phase of the War of the Grand Alliance.
- kingston upon hull — official name of Hull.
- kingston-upon-hull — official name of Hull.
- knotted cranesbill — a British wildflower, Geranium nodosum, an meadow geranium with bright pink or purple flowers
- land grant college — a state university established with a grant of public land
- land-grant college — a U.S. college or university (land-grant university) entitled to support from the federal government under the provisions of the Morrill Acts.
- lily of the valley — a plant, Convallaria majalis, having an elongated cluster of small, drooping, bell-shaped, fragrant white flowers.
- locally finite set — a collection of sets in a topological space in which each point of the space has a neighborhood that intersects a finite number of sets of the collection.
- logically possible — capable of being described without self-contradiction
- long-distance call — phone call: not local area
- lowell observatory — the astronomical observatory, situated in Flagstaff, Arizona, at which Pluto was discovered in 1930.
- magnetocrystalline — (physics) Describing the interaction between the magnetization and the crystal structure of a material.
- make allowance for — the act of allowing.
- melville peninsula — a peninsula in N Canada, SE of the Gulf of Boothia. 250 miles (405 km) long.
- meurthe-et-moselle — a department in NE France. 2038 sq. mi. (5280 sq. km). Capital: Nancy.
- microcrystallinity — The condition of being microcrystalline.
- minimally invasive — (of medical treatments or procedures) requiring only a small incision or the insertion of an instrument into a body cavity; involving minimal damage of body tissue: minimally invasive endoscopy.
- mission controller — a person who works as part of a mission control
- mobility allowance — an allowance paid by the government to help people who have limited mobility
- modelling language — (language) Possibly a kind of programming language designed for describing models and their behaviour. See also data modelling, object relational model, simulation, UML, VRML.
- montgomery village — a city in central Maryland.
- morning-after pill — a contraceptive pill containing only an estrogen and used by women within a few hours after sexual intercourse.