13-letter words starting with lo
- lo and behold — Lo and behold or lo is used to emphasize a surprising event that is about to be mentioned, or to emphasize in a humorous way that something is not surprising at all.
- load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- loan-to-value — the ratio between the sum of money lent in a mortgage agreement and the lender's valuation of the property involved
- loathsomeness — The property or nature that gives rise to revulsion, that inspires loathing.
- loblolly pine — a coniferous tree, Pinus taeda, of the southeastern U.S., having bundles of stout often twisted needles and blackish-gray bark.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- local council — the governing body of a county, district, etc
- local maximum — maximum (def 4a).
- local minimum — minimum (def 5a).
- local-content — of or relating to the number or percentage of the components of a product, as an automobile, that are manufactured in a specific country: Local-content laws say 90 percent of the components of the car must be made in the U.S. or import restrictions will apply.
- local-maximum — maximum (def 4a).
- localisations — Plural form of localisation.
- locked bowels — constipation.
- locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- locus sigilli — See L.S (def 3).
- lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
- loebner prize — (artificial intelligence) An annual competition in artificial intelligence started by Dr. Hugh Loebner of New York City in 1991. A $100,000 prize is offered to the author of the first computer program to pass an unrestricted Turing test. Annual competitions are held each year with a $2000 prize for the best program on a restricted Turing test. Sponsors of previous competitions include: Apple Computer, Computerland, Crown Industries, GDE Systems, IBM Personal Computer Company's Center for Natural Computing, Greenwich Capital Markets, Motorola, the National Science Foundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The Weingart Foundation. The 1995 and 1996 events were unrestricted Turing Tests, requiring computer entries to converse indefinitely with no topic restrictions. So far, even the best programs give themselves away almost immediately, either by simple grammatical mistakes or by repetition. Complete transcripts and IBM compatible diskettes that play the 1991, 1992, and 1993 conversations in real-time are available for purchase from the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (telephone: +1 (617) 491 9020, Fax: 1072). Sponsorship opportunities are available.
- loft building — a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- logging stone — rocking stone.
- logic circuit — a circuit designed to perform complex functions defined in terms of elementary functions of mathematical logic.
- logical shift — (programming) (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- logogrammatic — Of or pertaining to logograms; logographic.
- lollapaloozas — Plural form of lollapalooza.
- london bridge — a bridge over the Thames between the City of London on the north side, and Southwark on the south side.
- london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
- lonely hearts — of or for people seeking counseling or companionship to bring love or romance into their lives: a lonely-hearts column in the newspaper.
- lonely-hearts — of or for people seeking counseling or companionship to bring love or romance into their lives: a lonely-hearts column in the newspaper.
- long division — division, usually by a number of two or more digits, in which each step of the process is written down.
- long fin tuna — a tunny, Thunnus alalunga, occurring mainly in warm regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. It has very long pectoral fins and is a valued food fish
- long trousers — full-length trousers (as opposed to shorts)
- long vacation — the summer vacation customary in the law courts and universities.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- long-standing — existing or occurring for a long time: a longstanding feud.
- longleaf pine — an American pine, Pinus palustris, valued as a source of turpentine and for its timber.
- longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- lonsdale belt — (in Britain) a belt conferred as a trophy on professional boxing champions, in various weight categories: if a champion wins it three times it becomes his personal property
- look ahead lr — Look Ahead Left-to-right parse, Rightmost-derivation
- look and feel — (operating system) The appearance and function of a program's user interface. The term is most often applied to graphical user interfaces (GUI) but might also be used by extension for a textual command language used to control a program. Look and feel includes such things as the icons used to represent certain functions such as opening and closing files, directories and application programs and changing the size and position of windows; conventions for the meaning of different buttons on a mouse and keys on the keyboard; and the appearance and operation of menus. A user interface with a consistent look and feel is considered by many to be an important factor in the ease of use of a computer system. The success of the Macintosh user interface was partly due to its consistency. Because of the perceived importance of look and feel, there have been several legal actions claiming breech of copyright on the look and feel of user interfaces, most notably by Apple Computer against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (which Apple lost) and, later, by Xerox against Apple Computer. Such legal action attempts to force suppliers to make their interfaces inconsistent with those of other vendors' products. This can only be bad for users and the industry as a whole.
- looking glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- looking-glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- loop of henle — the part of a nephron between the proximal and distal convoluted tubules that extends, in a loop, from the cortex into the medulla of the kidney.
- loop the loop — plane: fly upside down
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