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16-letter words that end in n

  • lipstick lesbian — a lesbian who is feminine in manner or appearance; a femme.
  • listen to reason — be persuaded
  • little green men — a humorous way to refer to aliens
  • liturgical latin — the Latin characteristic of the liturgies of the Western Church.
  • loan translation — the process whereby a compound word or expression is created by literal translation of each of the elements of a compound word or expression in another language, as marriage of convenience from French mariage de convenance.
  • logical relation — A relation R satisfying f R g <=> For all a, b, a R b => f a R g b This definition, by Plotkin, can be used to extend the definition of a relation on the types of a and b to a relation on functions.
  • look up and down — to search everywhere
  • lookout mountain — a mountain ridge in Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama: a battle of the Civil War fought here, near Chattanooga, Tenn. 1863; highest point, 2126 feet (648 meters).
  • loop combination — A program transformation where the bodies of two loops are merged into one thus reducing the overhead of manipulating and testing the control variable and branching. Further optimisation of the merged code may then become possible. In horizontal loop combination the bodies of the loops are largely independent so only the loop overhead is saved. Vertical loop combination applies where the results of the first loop are used by the second. Combining the two allows the intermediate results to be used immediately (in registers) rather than requiring them to be stored in an array. The functional equivalent of horizontal and vertical loop combination are tupling and fusion.
  • loose connection — an imperfect electrical connection, as in a plug or car engine
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • lucas van leyden — (Lucas Hugensz) 1494–1533, Dutch painter and engraver.
  • lyndon b johnson — Andrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
  • lz77 compression — The first algorithm to use the Lempel-Ziv substitutional compression schemes, proposed in 1977. LZ77 compression keeps track of the last n bytes of data seen, and when a phrase is encountered that has already been seen, it outputs a pair of values corresponding to the position of the phrase in the previously-seen buffer of data, and the length of the phrase. In effect the compressor moves a fixed-size "window" over the data (generally referred to as a "sliding window"), with the position part of the (position, length) pair referring to the position of the phrase within the window. The most commonly used algorithms are derived from the LZSS scheme described by James Storer and Thomas Szymanski in 1982. In this the compressor maintains a window of size N bytes and a "lookahead buffer", the contents of which it tries to find a match for in the window: while (lookAheadBuffer not empty) { get a pointer (position, match) to the longest match in the window for the lookahead buffer; if (length > MINIMUM_MATCH_LENGTH) { output a (position, length) pair; shift the window length characters along; } else { output the first character in the lookahead buffer; shift the window 1 character along; } } Decompression is simple and fast: whenever a (POSITION, LENGTH) pair is encountered, go to that POSITION in the window and copy LENGTH bytes to the output. Sliding-window-based schemes can be simplified by numbering the input text characters mod N, in effect creating a circular buffer. The sliding window approach automatically creates the LRU effect which must be done explicitly in LZ78 schemes. Variants of this method apply additional compression to the output of the LZSS compressor, which include a simple variable-length code (LZB), dynamic Huffman coding (LZH), and Shannon-Fano coding (ZIP 1.x), all of which result in a certain degree of improvement over the basic scheme, especially when the data are rather random and the LZSS compressor has little effect. An algorithm was developed which combines the ideas behind LZ77 and LZ78 to produce a hybrid called LZFG. LZFG uses the standard sliding window, but stores the data in a modified trie data structure and produces as output the position of the text in the trie. Since LZFG only inserts complete *phrases* into the dictionary, it should run faster than other LZ77-based compressors. All popular archivers (arj, lha, zip, zoo) are variations on LZ77.
  • lz78 compression — A substitutional compression scheme which works by entering phrases into a dictionary and then, when a reoccurrence of that particular phrase is found, outputting the dictionary index instead of the phrase. Several algorithms are based on this principle, differing mainly in the manner in which they manage the dictionary. The most well-known Lempel-Ziv scheme is Terry Welch's Lempel-Ziv Welch variant of LZ78.
  • macroinstruction — macro (def 5).
  • macrorestriction — In physical gene mapping, the digestion of DNA of high molecular weight with a restriction enzyme having a low number of restriction sites.
  • magazine section — a magazinelike section in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, containing articles rather than news items and often letters, reviews, stories, puzzles, etc.
  • magnetostriction — a change in dimensions exhibited by ferromagnetic materials when subjected to a magnetic field.
  • mainland britain — England, Wales, and Scotland excluding those adjacent islands governed from the mainland
  • majority opinion — an opinion in a case that is shared by more than half of the members of a court
  • man and superman — a comedy (1903) by G. B. Shaw.
  • management union — a union that represents managers in negotiations with their employers concerning terms and conditions of employment
  • manic depression — bipolar disorder.
  • marriage portion — dowry.
  • marsupialization — (surgery) The surgical technique of cutting a slit into a cyst and suturing its edges to form a continuous surface from the exterior to the interior of the cyst, allowing it to drain freely.
  • martin van buren — Martin, 1782–1862, 8th president of the U.S. 1837–41.
  • mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
  • mass observation — the study of the social habits of people through observation, interviews, etc
  • mechanoreception — The action of a mechanoreceptor.
  • metamorphization — Process or action of metamorphizing.
  • methyl parathion — a synthetic pesticide, C 8 H 1 0 NO 5 PS, used in the control of mites and various insects, as aphids, boll weevils, and cutworms.
  • mexican-american — Also, Mexican American. a citizen or resident of the U.S. of Mexican birth or descent; Chicano.
  • microcirculation — the movement of blood through the arterioles, capillaries, and venules.
  • microinstruction — an instruction that defines part of a machine-language instruction in terms of simpler operations.
  • micropropagation — the propagation of plants from tissue cultures, often from single cells.
  • midair collision — a crash, such as a plane crash, that takes place in the air
  • misappropriation — to put to a wrong use.
  • miscommunication — Failure to communicate adequately.
  • miscomprehension — the act or process of comprehending.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • mispronunciation — (uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.
  • misspecification — An incorrect specification.
  • mistranscription — the act or process of transcribing.
  • mock examination — an examination, esp in a school, taken as practice before an official examination
  • monumental mason — a person who makes gravestones and suchlike
  • mount carmel man — an early human of Neanderthaloid type, known from skeletal remains from the late Pleistocene Epoch, c50,000–40,000 b.c., found in Palestine.
  • mount washington — a mountain in N New Hampshire, in the White Mountains: the highest peak in the northeast US; noted for extreme weather conditions. Height: 1917 m (6288 ft)
  • 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.
  • multiple fission — fission into more than two new organisms.
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