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16-letter words containing c, g, l

  • single precision — using one word rather than two or more to represent a number.
  • slang dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
  • sliding friction — frictional resistance to relative movement of surfaces on loaded contact
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • social pathology — a social factor, as poverty, old age, or crime, that tends to increase social disorganization and inhibit personal adjustment.
  • sociolinguistics — the study of language as it functions in society; the study of the interaction between linguistic and social variables.
  • special clearing — (in Britain) the clearing of a cheque through a bank in less than the usual three days, for an additional charge
  • special handling — (in the U.S. Postal Service) the handling of third- and fourth-class mail as first-class upon the payment of a fee.
  • special pleading — Law. pleading that alleges special or new matter in avoidance of the allegations made by the opposite side.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • speech pathology — the scientific study and treatment of defects, disorders, and malfunctions of speech and voice, as stuttering, lisping, or lalling, and of language disturbances, as aphasia or delayed language acquisition.
  • sql access group — (body)   The origanisaton which defined Call-Level Interface, on which ODBC is based. It is now part of X/Open.
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • sticking plaster — an adhesive cloth or other material for covering and closing superficial wounds, holding bandages in place, etc.
  • stinging capsule — a nematocyst.
  • stomach stapling — Stomach stapling is an operation in which part of the stomach is removed in order to help a person to eat less and lose weight.
  • strange particle — any elementary particle with a strangeness quantum number other than zero.
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
  • sulu archipelago — an island group in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulawesi Sea from the Sulu Sea. 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Capital: Jolo.
  • summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
  • surface integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given surface into sections of area approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the areas times the value of a given function of three variables at some point on each section.
  • teachers college — a four-year college offering courses for the training of primary and secondary school teachers and granting the bachelor's degree and often advanced degrees.
  • teleconferencing — a business meeting, educational session, etc., conducted among participants in different locations via telecommunications equipment. Compare videoconference.
  • telescopic sight — a telescope mounted on a rifle, etc, used for sighting
  • tephrochronology — a geochronologic technique based on the dating of layers of volcanic ash.
  • tertiary college — a college system incorporating the secondary school sixth form and vocational courses
  • the gentle craft — fishing
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • the open college — (in Britain) a college of art founded in 1987 for mature students studying foundation courses in arts and crafts by television programmes, written materials, and tutorials
  • theatrical agent — an intermediary who brings together actors who are seeking work and theatre producers who are offering parts
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • to change places — If you change places with another person, you start being in their situation or role, and they start being in yours.
  • to get cold feet — If you get cold feet about something, you become nervous or frightened about it because you think it will fail.
  • trailing fuchsia — a shrub, Fuchsia procumbens, of the evening primrose family, native to New Zealand, having long-stalked leaves and drooping, orange-and-purple flowers, used in hanging baskets.
  • training college — a school providing training for a special field or profession.
  • travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
  • tray agriculture — hydroponics.
  • trimethylglycine — betaine.
  • trinitroglycerin — nitroglycerin.
  • unapologetically — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
  • uncompromisingly — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
  • vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
  • vegetable cellar — a usually underground storage room where fresh vegetables can be stored at normally cool temperatures for later use.
  • vegetable slicer — a device with a sharp blade for slicing vegetables finely;
  • velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • verruca vulgaris — the common wart.
  • vertical farming — a proposed system of growing crops in urban areas using specially designed skyscrapers
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