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13-letter words containing c, a, l, e

  • knuckleballer — a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckle balls.
  • knuckleheaded — Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
  • lace-up shoes — shoes which are fastened with laces
  • lacedaemonian — of or relating to ancient Sparta; Spartan.
  • lacrimal bone — a small, thin, membrane bone forming the front part of the inner wall of each orbit.
  • lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
  • lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
  • lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
  • lake titicaca — a lake between S Peru and W Bolivia, in the Andes: the highest large lake in the world; drained by the Desaguadero River flowing into Lake Poopó. Area: 8135 sq km (3141 sq miles). Altitude: 3809 m (12 497 ft). Depth: 370 m (1214 ft)
  • lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
  • lamellibranch — bivalve.
  • laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • language code — (human language, standard)   A set of standard names and abbreviations maintained by ISO for identifying human languages, natural and invented, past and present. Each language has a list of English and French names and an ISO 639-2 three-letter code. Some also have an ISO 639-1 two-letter code. The list even includes the Klingon language from the Star Trek science fiction series. There are also country codes.
  • lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
  • laparoscopies — Plural form of laparoscopy.
  • large calorie — kilocalorie.
  • laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
  • laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
  • laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
  • latent defect — hidden fault, undiscovered flaw
  • lateral canal — a canal running parallel to a stream that is inconvenient or impossible to navigate.
  • lateral chain — an open chain of atoms attached to an atom of a larger chain, or to a ring.
  • latin america — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
  • laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
  • laurel cherry — a tree, Prunus caroliniana, of the rose family, of the southeastern U.S., having small, milky-white flowers and black, shiny fruit.
  • law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
  • lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
  • leading block — lead block.
  • leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
  • leave sb cold — If something leaves you cold, it fails to excite or interest you.
  • lechosos opal — a variety of opal having a deep-green play of color.
  • legacy system — (jargon)   A computer system or application program which continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and compatibility with modern equivalents. The implication is that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify. If legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.
  • legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
  • legal offence — a crime that breaks a particular law and requires a particular punishment
  • legal process — court procedure
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • leptocephalic — having a narrow skull
  • leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
  • let's face it — You use the expression 'let's face it' when you are stating a fact or making a comment about something which you think the person you are talking to may find unpleasant or be unwilling to admit.
  • lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • lethargically — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
  • leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • level 1 cache — primary cache
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