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18-letter words that end in n

  • lenient evaluation — (reduction)   An evaluation strategy, described in [Traub, FPCA 89], under which all redexes are evaluated in parallel except inside the arms of conditionals and inside lambda abstractions. Lenient evaluation is an example of an eager evaluation strategy.
  • lighting cameraman — the person who designs and supervises the lighting of scenes to be filmed
  • limit-state design — a design criterion specifying that with acceptable probabilities a structure will not reach a limit state in which it either is unfit for the use for which it was designed (unavailability limit state) or fails (ultimate limit state)
  • linear combination — a sum of products of each quantity times a constant: The expression aX + bY + cZ is a linear combination of X, Y, and Z, where a, b, and c are constants.
  • lingual titubation — stuttering or stammering
  • list comprehension — (functional programming)   An expression in a functional language denoting the results of some operation on (selected) elements of one or more lists. An example in Haskell: This returns all pairs of numbers (x,y) where x and y are elements of the list 1, 2, ..., 10, y <= x and their sum is less than 10. A list comprehension is simply "syntactic sugar" for a combination of applications of the functions, concat, map and filter. For instance the above example could be written: The term "list comprehension" appears in the references below. The earliest reference to the notation is in Rod Burstall and John Darlington's description of their language, NPL. David Turner subsequently adopted this notation in his languages SASL, KRC and Miranda, where he has called them "ZF expressions", set abstractions and list abstractions (in his 1985 FPCA paper [Miranda: A Non-Strict Functional Language with Polymorphic Types]).
  • magnetic induction — Also called magnetic flux density. a vector quantity used as a measure of a magnetic field. Symbol: B.
  • magnetic variation — variation (def 8).
  • make an impression — have impact
  • make sth one's own — If you make something your own, you become involved in it in such a way that people think of it as being related only to you or belonging only to you, rather than to anyone else.
  • marketing campaign — a series of coordinated activities designed to help market a product
  • matthias schleiden — Matthias Jakob [mah-tee-ahs yah-kawp] /mɑˈti ɑs ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1804–81, German botanist.
  • medical profession — the body of people who work as doctors of medicine
  • medical technician — a person, not a qualified doctor, who does practical work in a hospital
  • mental reservation — an unexpressed doubt or qualification about a situation, person, etc.
  • mental retardation — Usually Offensive. a developmental disorder characterized in varying degrees by a subnormal ability to learn, a substantially low IQ, and impaired social adjustment.
  • methacrylate resin — an acrylic resin formed by polymerizing the esters or amides of methacrylic acid.
  • microencapsulation — the process of enclosing chemical substances in microcapsules.
  • middle high german — the High German language of the period 1100–1500. Abbreviation: MHG.
  • military policeman — A military policeman is a member of the military police.
  • missing definition — (introduction)   First, this is an (English language) computing dictionary. It includes lots of terms from related fields such as mathematics and electronics, but if you're looking for (or want to submit) words from other subjects or general English words or other languages, try http://wikipedia.org/, http://onelook.com/, http://yourdictionary.com/, http://www.dictionarist.com/ or http://reference.allrefer.com/. If you've already searched the dictionary for a computing term and it's not here then please don't tell me. There are, and always will be, a great many missing terms, no dictionary is ever complete. I use my limited time to process the corrections and definitions people have submitted and to add the most frequently requested missing terms. Try one of the sources mentioned above or http://techweb.com/encyclopedia/, http://whatis.techtarget.com/ or http://google.com/. See the Help page for more about missing definitions and bad cross-references.
  • misunderestimation — (nonstandard) An inaccurate underestimation, or an act of misunderestimating.
  • modulus of torsion — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
  • monophthongization — to change into or pronounce as a monophthong.
  • morphine addiction — the fact or condition of being addicted to morphine
  • mozilla foundation — (body, web, open source)   The body set up by Netscape in January 1998 to coordinate development of the Mozilla browser and to provide a point of contact.
  • multi-user dungeon — Multi-User Dimension
  • multiple collision — an accident in which several cars crash into each other
  • national guardsman — guardsman (def 2).
  • natural convection — Natural convection is the loss of heat from a hot solid or liquid into air which is not artificially agitated.
  • neovascularization — the development of new blood vessels, especially in tissues where circulation has been impaired by trauma or disease.
  • nervous exhaustion — extreme mental and physical fatigue caused by excessive emotional stress; neurasthenia.
  • new zealand pigeon — a large fruit-eating native pigeon, Hemiphagia novaeseelandiae, of forest areas
  • nocturnal emission — the release of semen during sleep, often during a sexual dream.
  • non-identification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
  • non-reconciliation — an act of reconciling, as when former enemies agree to an amicable truce.
  • non-representation — the act of representing.
  • north polar region — the region of land and water surrounding the North Pole.
  • north saskatchewan — a river in S central Canada, flowing E from the Rocky Mountains and joining the South Saskatchewan River to form the Saskatchewan River. 760 miles (1223 km) long.
  • not on/just not on — If you say that something is not on or is just not on, you mean that it is unacceptable or impossible.
  • noun incorporation — a process in word formation by which a compound is created by affixing or infixing a noun to a verb, as in baby-sit, house-hunt, and sleep-walk.
  • nova scotia salmon — an Atlantic salmon, especially from the waters off Nova Scotia, cured in the local manner.
  • object-orientation — object-oriented
  • oblique projection — something that is oblique.
  • october revolution — Russian Revolution (def 2).
  • oil of wintergreen — methyl salicylate.
  • old low franconian — a Low German dialect of the Franks of the lower Rhine valley before c1100.
  • operationalisation — Alternative spelling of operationalization.
  • operationalization — The act or process of operationalizing.
  • optimum population — a population that is sufficiently large to provide an adequate workforce with minimal unemployment
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