15-letter words containing c, a, g, o
- lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
- language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
- legacy software — legacy system
- legal successor — a person or thing that legally follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
- lexical scoping — lexical scope
- lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- lexicologically — Describing a relation to lexicology.
- limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
- logarithmically — In a logarithmic manner.
- logging company — a company that fells trees and sells timber
- logical address — virtual address
- logical atomism — a philosophy developed from linguistic analysis asserting that a proposition can be analyzed into simple, independent elements of meaning corresponding to elements making up basic facts about the world and reality.
- long-case clock — tall-case clock.
- long-grain rice — a type of rice that has long grains, rather than round grains
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
- low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
- lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
- lucrezia borgia — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.
- macro-sociology — the sociological study of large-scale social systems and long-term patterns and processes.
- macroaggregated — in the form of a macroaggregate
- macrophotograph — a photograph taken at very close range
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- magnetic domain — a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.
- magnetic mirror — a region in a magnetic bottle where the magnetic field increases abruptly, causing charged particles that enter it to be reflected.
- magnetic moment — a vector quantity associated with a given electric current, magnet, or the like, having the property that its vector product with the magnetic induction equals the torque acting on the given object.
- magnetoelectric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
- magnetoreceptor — The part of an organism responsible for magnetoreception.
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- managed economy — an economy in which the government allocates prices of goods and resources
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- mass psychology — the study of the behavior of large groups of people.
- megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.
- megalithic tomb — a burial chamber constructed of large stones, either underground or covered by a mound and usually consisting of long transepted corridors (gallery graves) or of a distinct chamber and passage (passage graves). The tombs may date from the 4th millennium bc
- megalokaryocyte — Megakaryocyte.
- messier catalog — a catalog of nonstellar objects compiled by Charles Messier in 1784 and later slightly extended, now known to contain nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters.
- metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
- metallo-organic — organometallic.
- microaggression — a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other nondominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype: microaggressions such as "I don't see you as black.".
- microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
- microbiological — Of or pertaining to microbiology.
- microgametocyte — a gametocyte that produces microgametes
- microgeneration — the small-scale generation of electrical power, through means such as solar or wind power