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16-letter words containing c, a, i, l

  • isophthalic acid — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 8 H 6 O 2 , the meta isomer of phthalic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and plasticizers.
  • isoplastic graft — syngraft.
  • journalistically — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
  • judicial inquiry — a formal legal investigation conducted into a matter of public concern by a judge, appointed by the government
  • jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
  • karyokinetically — In a karyokinetic manner; by means of karyokinesis.
  • khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
  • kilogram calorie — kilocalorie.
  • kirchhoff's laws — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
  • knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
  • lachryma christi — a table wine produced from grapes grown near Vesuvius, in Italy.
  • lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
  • lake havasu city — a city in W central Arizona.
  • lake saint clair — a lake between SE Michigan and Ontario: linked with Lake Huron by the St Clair River and with Lake Erie by the Detroit River. Area: 1191 sq km (460 sq miles)
  • lancashire chair — a chair similar to a Windsor chair, having a rush seat and a back formed of spindles.
  • laodicea ad mare — the chief port of Syria, in the northwest: tobacco industry. Pop: 486 000 (2005 est) (Latin name)
  • laparoscopically — By means of laparoscopy.
  • laplace equation — the second-order partial differential equation indicating that the Laplace operator operating on a given function results in zero. Compare harmonic (def 4c).
  • larsen ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in the NW Weddell Sea, on the E coast of the Antarctic Peninsula: first explored 1893.
  • laserdisc player — a device that plays laserdiscs
  • lattice constant — a parameter, either a measure of length or angle, that defines the size and shape of the unit cell of a crystal lattice.
  • laughing jackass — kookaburra.
  • lawson criterion — (in a hypothetical nuclear fusion reactor) the requirement that in order for the energy produced by fusion to exceed the energy expended in causing the fusion, the product of the density of the fuel and the time during which it is confined at that density (Lawson product) must be greater than a certain number that depends on the kind of fuel used.
  • lead(ii) acetate — a white crystalline toxic solid used in dyeing cotton and in making varnishes and enamels. Formula: Pb(CH3CO)2
  • leaf-cutting ant — any of several tropical American ants of the genus Atta that cut and chew bits of leaves and flowers into a mash that they use to cultivate a fungus garden.
  • leaf-cutting bee — any of the bees of the family Megachilidae that cut circular pieces from leaves or flowers to line their nests.
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • learning process — a process of learning
  • legal dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.
  • lenticular cloud — a very smooth, round or oval, lens-shaped cloud that is often seen, singly or stacked in groups, near a mountain ridge.
  • lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
  • lesser celandine — a Eurasian plant, Ranunculus ficaria, of the buttercup family, having heart-shaped leaves and glossy yellow flowers, naturalized in North America.
  • lethal injection — dose of deadly chemical into a vein
  • letter of advice — a notification from a consignor to a consignee giving specific information as to a shipment, the name of the carrier, the date shipped, etc.
  • lexical analyser — (language)   (Or "scanner") The initial input stage of a language processor (e.g. a compiler), the part that performs lexical analysis.
  • lexical analysis — (programming)   (Or "linear analysis", "scanning") The first stage of processing a language. The stream of characters making up the source program or other input is read one at a time and grouped into lexemes (or "tokens") - word-like pieces such as keywords, identifiers, literals and punctuation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser.
  • lexicostatistics — the statistical study of the vocabulary of a language or languages for historical purposes.
  • liang ch'i-ch'ao — 1873–1929, Chinese scholar, journalist, and reformer.
  • liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
  • library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • like cat and dog — quarrelling savagely
  • limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
  • limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
  • linguistic atlas — dialect atlas.
  • lipstick lesbian — a lesbian who is feminine in manner or appearance; a femme.
  • literacy project — a project, plan or scheme to increase literacy in a country, area, etc
  • literalistically — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
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