13-letter words containing c, l, o, t
- lithification — the process or processes by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction or cementation.
- lithoglyptics — The art of cutting and engraving gems.
- lithontriptic — of or relating to destroying bladder or kidney stones
- little casino — the two of spades.
- little office — (sometimes initial capital letters) Roman Catholic Church. an office similar to but shorter than the divine office, in honor of a saint, a mystery, or, especially, the Virgin Mary.
- load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- local-content — of or relating to the number or percentage of the components of a product, as an automobile, that are manufactured in a specific country: Local-content laws say 90 percent of the components of the car must be made in the U.S. or import restrictions will apply.
- localisations — Plural form of localisation.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- logic circuit — a circuit designed to perform complex functions defined in terms of elementary functions of mathematical logic.
- logical shift — (programming) (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- logogrammatic — Of or pertaining to logograms; logographic.
- london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
- long vacation — the summer vacation customary in the law courts and universities.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- lord advocate — (in Scotland) the chief law officer of the Crown who acts as public prosecutor and is in charge of the administration of criminal justice
- lorentz force — the force on a charged particle moving through a region containing both electric and magnetic fields.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
- lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- lunch counter — a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.
- luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
- luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- lymphocytosis — an abnormal increase in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- lymphotrophic — carrying nutrients from the lymph to the tissues.
- machicolation — an opening in the floor between the corbels of a projecting gallery or parapet, as on a wall or in the vault of a passage, through which missiles, molten lead, etc., might be cast upon an enemy beneath.
- macroclimates — Plural form of macroclimate.
- macroclimatic — Relating to macroclimate.
- macrolecithal — megalecithal.
- macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
- macroplankton — planktonic organisms of about 1 mm in length.
- magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
- magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- malabar coast — a region along the entire SW coast of India, extending from the Arabian Sea inland to the Western Ghats.
- malacostracan — belonging or pertaining to the crustacean subclass Malacostraca, which includes the lobsters, shrimps, crabs, etc.
- malapropistic — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
- malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- maltese cross — a cross having four equal arms that expand in width outward.
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- marginal cost — the cost of one additional unit of any item produced or bought in quantity.