11-letter words containing c, e, t, o, l, g
- geopolitics — the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
- geotactical — relating to geotaxis
- glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
- glossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of all or part of the tongue.
- glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).
- glyptotheca — a space devoted to sculpture
- goblet cell — a type of epithelial cell that secretes mucin, so called after its shape.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- hematologic — Of or relating to hematology.
- incogitable — Not cogitable; inconceivable.
- insectology — entomology.
- legal costs — the costs of a court action; the judge decides which side should pay them
- logocentric — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- necrologist — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- neologistic — a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
- oligochaete — any of various annelids of the family Oligochaeta, including earthworms and certain small, freshwater species, having locomotory setae sunk directly in the body wall.
- plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
- polygenetic — Biology. relating to or exhibiting polygenesis.
- postcollege — an institution of higher learning, especially one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university.
- recatalogue — to catalogue (something, such as a book or collection of books) again
- scientology — the philosophy of the Church of Scientology, a nondenominational movement founded in the US in the 1950s, which emphasizes self-knowledge as a means of realizing full spiritual potential
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- technologic — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- telecottage — a communal workplace, situated in a rural area, which contains computers and other facilities linked into a communications network, thereby enabling people to work from remote locations
- telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- tense logic — the study of the logical properties of tense operators, and of the logical relations between sentences having tense, by means of consideration of appropriate formal systems
- theogonical — of or relating to theogony
- theological — of, relating to, or involved with theology: a theological student.
- toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
- toll charge — traffic fee payable on a road