15-letter words containing c, l, i, n, e
- learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
- learner's chain — an inexperienced team of slaughtermen working in a freezing works
- lemon socialism — the policy of a government in a nominally free-market country of bailing out large failing private companies with taxpayers’ money
- levelling screw — a screw, often one of three, for adjusting the level of an apparatus
- levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
- lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
- lexical meaning — the meaning of a base morpheme.
- lexical scoping — lexical scope
- liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
- library science — the study of the organization and administration of a library and of its technical, informational, and reference services.
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- lichenification — a leathery hardening of the skin, usually caused by chronic irritation.
- lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- lick one's lips — to anticipate or recall something with glee or relish
- liechtensteiner — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
- life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.
- lightning chess — rapid chess in which either each move has a fixed time allowed (usually 10 seconds) or each player is allotted a fixed time (often 5 minutes) for all his moves
- lignocellulosic — (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.
- limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
- linalyl acetate — a colorless, water-insoluble liquid, C 12 H 20 O 2 , having a pleasant odor: used chiefly in perfumes, cosmetics, toilet water, and soap.
- line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
- linear collider — a particle accelerator in which two beams of particles are made to collide
- linear function — linear transformation.
- linear-tracking — (of a tone arm) designed to move across a phonograph record in a straight line, instead of an arc, so that as the needle tracks the groove, its orientation remains unchanged.
- linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
- lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
- little alliance — an economic and military alliance (1920) between Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, which were joined the following year by Romania, formed as a counterbalance to the informal alliance that existed between Austria, Germany, Hungary, and Italy.
- little entrance — the solemn procession in which the book of the Gospels is carried through the nave of the church and into the bema.
- liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
- loan collection — a number of works of art lent by their owners for a temporary public exhibition
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- long-grain rice — a type of rice that has long grains, rather than round grains
- loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
- low-maintenance — requiring little attention or upkeep
- lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
- lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
- lzh compression — (algorithm) (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
- lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
- machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
- magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
- magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
- magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
- magnetoelectric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
- mailing machine — a machine that prepares mail for sending, as by addressing, stamping, weighing, etc.
- malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
- male chauvinism — the beliefs, attitudes, or behavior of male chauvinists (men who patronize, disparage, or otherwise denigrate females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit).
- male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
- mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.