13-letter words containing c, l, o, t
- intraocularly — into or in the eye
- intratropical — Within the tropics.
- iridocyclitis — (medicine) A type of anterior uveitis.
- isoelectronic — noting or pertaining to atoms and ions having an equal number of electrons.
- isometrically — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- isosmotically — With the same osmotic pressure.
- isostatically — In an isostatic manner.
- isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
- italicization — to print in italic type.
- jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
- job applicant — candidate for an advertised post
- john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- jollification — jolly merrymaking; jolly festivity.
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
- kin selection — a form of natural selection that favors altruistic behavior toward close relatives resulting in an increase in the altruistic individual's genetic contribution to the next generation.
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- knuckle joint — a joint forming a knuckle.
- l-d converter — a vessel in which steel is made from pig iron by blowing oxygen into the molten metal through a water-cooled tube
- lactobacillus — any long, slender, rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus, that produces large amounts of lactic acid in the fermentation of carbohydrates, especially in milk.
- lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
- land contract — a contract for the purchase and sale of land.
- lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
- laparoscopist — One who carries out laparoscopy.
- laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
- lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- lepidocrocite — a ruby-red to reddish-brown orthorhombic mineral, iron oxyhydroxide, FeO(OH), dimorphous with goethite: an ore of iron, used as a pigment.
- leptocephalic — having a narrow skull
- leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- leucodepleted — of or denoting blood from which the white cells have been removed
- level5 object — From Information Builders.
- lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
- lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
- lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy