14-letter words containing c, i, s, g, e
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
- lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
- limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
- locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
- logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
- magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
- magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- magnetostatics — the branch of magnetics that deals with magnetic fields that do not vary with time (magnetostatic fields)
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- megascopically — macroscopically
- mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
- metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
- metallic glass — glassy alloy.
- metapragmatics — Language that characterizes or describes the pragmatic function of some speech.
- micromagnetism — (physics) The study of magnetism at the sub-micrometre scale.
- mie scattering — the scattering of light by particles that are large relative to the wavelength of the light.
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- mischief night — Halloween or, in some areas, the night before Halloween, as an occasion for pranks and minor vandalism by young people.
- miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misrecognition — Incorrect recognition.
- misrecognizing — Present participle of misrecognize.
- monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
- museologically — In a museological manner.
- negative space — shape of space around an object
- neolinguistics — a school of linguistics centered in Italy emphasizing the importance of linguistic geography in diachronic studies.
- non-coalescing — to unite so as to form one mass, community, etc.: The various groups coalesced into a crowd.
- non-discerning — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
- nyctaginaceous — belonging to the Nyctaginaceae, the four-o'clock family of plants.
- oligosynthetic — (linguistics) (of a language) using a relatively small number of morphemes which combine synthetically to form compound words.
- on consignment — the act of consigning.
- oncogeneticist — a medical specialist in oncogenesis
- operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
- operating cost — The operating cost of a business, or a piece of equipment or machinery is the amount of money that it costs to run it.
- osteogenically — By osteogenesis.
- osteologically — Concerning only the osteological aspects.
- over-consuming — to destroy or expend by use; use up.
- paleoecologist — the branch of ecology dealing with the relations and interactions between ancient life forms and their environment.
- phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- pigeon-chested — having a narrow chest that sticks out at the front in an unusual way
- popping crease — a line parallel to and in advance of a bowling crease, marking the limit of a batsman's approach in hitting the ball.
- postcollegiate — denoting something that takes place after college or among those that are no longer at college
- press clipping — clipping (def 2).
- processing tax — a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods.
- pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- psychic energy — according to Freud, the force that lies behind all mental processes, having its basic source as the id.