13-letter words containing c, l, o, s, e, g
- octagon scale — a scale used in laying out octagonal figures of various sizes.
- olympic games — international sports event
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- polygalaceous — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
- polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
- social gospel — a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life.
- space biology — exobiology.
- staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
- state college — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- stereological — of, relating to, stereology
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
- technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
- ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.