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16-letter words containing c, l, a, n, i, s

  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
  • lake saint clair — a lake between SE Michigan and Ontario: linked with Lake Huron by the St Clair River and with Lake Erie by the Detroit River. Area: 1191 sq km (460 sq miles)
  • lancashire chair — a chair similar to a Windsor chair, having a rush seat and a back formed of spindles.
  • larsen ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in the NW Weddell Sea, on the E coast of the Antarctic Peninsula: first explored 1893.
  • lattice constant — a parameter, either a measure of length or angle, that defines the size and shape of the unit cell of a crystal lattice.
  • laughing jackass — kookaburra.
  • lawson criterion — (in a hypothetical nuclear fusion reactor) the requirement that in order for the energy produced by fusion to exceed the energy expended in causing the fusion, the product of the density of the fuel and the time during which it is confined at that density (Lawson product) must be greater than a certain number that depends on the kind of fuel used.
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • learning process — a process of learning
  • lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
  • lesser celandine — a Eurasian plant, Ranunculus ficaria, of the buttercup family, having heart-shaped leaves and glossy yellow flowers, naturalized in North America.
  • lexical analyser — (language)   (Or "scanner") The initial input stage of a language processor (e.g. a compiler), the part that performs lexical analysis.
  • lexical analysis — (programming)   (Or "linear analysis", "scanning") The first stage of processing a language. The stream of characters making up the source program or other input is read one at a time and grouped into lexemes (or "tokens") - word-like pieces such as keywords, identifiers, literals and punctuation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser.
  • linguistic atlas — dialect atlas.
  • lipstick lesbian — a lesbian who is feminine in manner or appearance; a femme.
  • logical constant — one of the connectives of a given system of formal logic, esp those of the sentential calculus, not, and, or, and if … then …
  • long-tail claims — Long-tail claims are claims that are made or settled a long time after the insurance policy has expired.
  • louisiana french — French as spoken in Louisiana; Cajun. Abbreviation: LaF.
  • luminosity class — a classification of stars of a given spectral type according to their luminosity, breaking them down into dwarfs, giants, and supergiants.
  • lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
  • lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.
  • mach's principle — the proposition that there is no absolute space and that the inertia and acceleration of a body are determined by all of the matter of the universe.
  • machiavellianism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
  • machine washable — suitable for washing in a washing machine
  • maclaurin series — a Taylor series in which the reference point is zero.
  • macro-linguistic — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macrolinguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • marginal costing — a method of cost accounting and decision making used for internal reporting in which only marginal costs are charged to cost units and fixed costs are treated as a lump sum
  • marriage license — permit to marry
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
  • medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
  • mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
  • mexican hairless — one of a breed of small dogs having no hair except for a tuft on the top of the head and a little fuzz on the lower part of the tail.
  • microcrystalline — minutely crystalline; composed of microscopic crystals.
  • microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
  • midair collision — a crash, such as a plane crash, that takes place in the air
  • military science — the study of the causative factors and tactical principles of warfare.
  • misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
  • misogynistically — In a misogynistic manner.
  • missile launcher — system that fires missiles
  • mission-critical — essential for a project to launch
  • mit lisp machine — Lisp Machine
  • monopolistically — In a monopolistic manner.
  • monosyllabically — In single syllables.
  • monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
  • mousseline sauce — a light sauce, made by adding whipped cream or egg whites to hollandaise sauce
  • mutual exclusion — (parallel, operating system)   (Or "mutex", plural: "mutexes") A collection of techniques for sharing resources so that different uses do not conflict and cause unwanted interactions. One of the most commonly used techniques for mutual exclusion is the semaphore.
  • mutual insurance — insurance in which those insured become members of a company who reciprocally engage, by payment of certain amounts into a common fund, to indemnify one another against loss.
  • mutual recursion — recursion
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