11-letter words containing c, l, o, s, e, g
- glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).
- goal crease — crease1 (def 4).
- goal scorer — somebody who scores goals
- goalscorers — Plural form of goalscorer.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- insectology — entomology.
- king closer — a brick of regular length and thickness, used in building corners, having a long bevel from a point on one side to one about halfway across the adjacent end.
- legal costs — the costs of a court action; the judge decides which side should pay them
- levoglucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- logicalness — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- logomachies — Plural form of logomachy.
- long splice — a splice for forming a united rope narrow enough to pass through a block, made by unlaying the ends of two ropes for a considerable distance, overlapping the strands so as to make pairs of one strand from each rope, unlaying one of each pair, twisting the other strand into its place in the united rope, and tucking the yarns of the unlaid strand separately into place.
- mesopelagic — of, relating to, or living in the ocean at a depth of between 600 feet (180 meters) and 3000 feet (900 meters).
- necrologies — Plural form of necrology.
- necrologist — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- neologistic — a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
- obsolescing — to be or become obsolescent.
- oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.
- plagioclase — any of the feldspar minerals varying in composition from acidic albite, NaAlSi 3 O 8 , to basic anorthite, CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8 , found in most igneous rocks: shows twinning striations on good cleavage surfaces.
- postcollege — an institution of higher learning, especially one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university.
- scaffoldage — a scaffold or scaffolding
- scientology — the philosophy of the Church of Scientology, a nondenominational movement founded in the US in the 1950s, which emphasizes self-knowledge as a means of realizing full spiritual potential
- serological — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- sociologese — the recondite writing characteristic of sociology and sociologists
- sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc.
- sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
- sockdologer — a decisive blow or remark
- specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
- spectrology — the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions.
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- synoecology — the science of relationships between species
- telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- tense logic — the study of the logical properties of tense operators, and of the logical relations between sentences having tense, by means of consideration of appropriate formal systems
- welsh corgi — one of either of two Welsh breeds of dogs having short legs, erect ears, and a foxlike head. Compare Cardigan (def 2), Pembroke (def 3).