13-letter words containing c, a, t, g, l
- hygrometrical — Alternative form of hygrometric.
- hypergalactia — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- imagistically — (often initial capital letter) a theory or practice of a group of poets in England and America between 1909 and 1917 who believed that poetry should employ the language of common speech, create new rhythms, have complete freedom in subject matter, and present a clear, concentrated, and precise image.
- intercalating — Present participle of intercalate.
- intergalactic — of, existing, or occurring in the space between galaxies: The science-fiction movie was about an intergalactic war.
- interglacials — Plural form of interglacial.
- intragalactic — existing or occurring within a single galaxy.
- judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
- landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
- laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
- 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
- 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
- lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
- linguistician — linguist (def 1).
- lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
- 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.
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- 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.
- 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.
- lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
- magic lantern — a device having an enclosed lamp and a lenslike opening, formerly used for projecting and magnifying images mounted on slides or films.
- magistratical — Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate.
- magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
- magnetic flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.
- magnetic lens — Physics. an electron lens using magnetic fields for focusing an electron beam.
- magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- magnificently — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
- marginal cost — the cost of one additional unit of any item produced or bought in quantity.
- matriculating — Present participle of matriculate.
- meeting place — A meeting place is a place where people meet.
- megaloblastic — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
- merchant flag — the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.
- metalcrafting — metalworking.
- metallurgical — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- misallocating — Present participle of misallocate.
- multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
- multiorgasmic — Capable of multiple orgasms without a refractory period.
- multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
- mutagenically — in a mutagenic manner
- nematological — of or pertaining to nematology
- neoglaciation — a phase of renewed glaciation associated with a readvance of ice sheets between the postglacial phase and the present.