13-letter words containing c, o, l, e, g
- laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
- leading block — lead block.
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- legal offence — a crime that breaks a particular law and requires a particular punishment
- legal process — court procedure
- leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
- lexicographic — Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
- lexicological — the study of the formation, meaning, and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words.
- light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
- lincoln green — an olive-green color.
- locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
- 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.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
- 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)
- magniloquence — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
- magnoliaceous — belonging to the plant family Magnoliaceae.
- megaloblastic — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
- megalocephaly — Cephalometry, Craniometry. macrocephalic.
- megalomaniacs — Plural form of megalomaniac.
- meningococcal — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or caused by meningococci.
- mineralogical — Relating to mineralogy.
- monogenically — In a monogenic manner.
- monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
- monogynoecial — (of a fruit) developing from a single pistil.
- multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
- naval college — training institution for the navy
- nematological — of or pertaining to nematology
- neoglaciation — a phase of renewed glaciation associated with a readvance of ice sheets between the postglacial phase and the present.
- nephrological — of or relating to nephrology
- neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
- nitroglycerin — a colorless, thick, oily, flammable, highly explosive, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 5 N 3 O 9 , prepared from glycerol with nitric and sulfuric acids: used chiefly as a constituent of dynamite and other explosives, in rocket propellants, and in medicine as a vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris.
- nonallergenic — not causing an allergic reaction: nonallergenic cosmetics.
- noncollegiate — below the level usually associated with college or university study.
- nonindulgence — Lack of indulgence.
- nonreflecting — Not reflecting.
- normoglycemic — (medicine) Having the normal amount of glucose in the blood.
- numerological — Of, pertaining to, or based on numerology.
- oceanological — relating to the science and analysis of the ocean
- octagon scale — a scale used in laying out octagonal figures of various sizes.
- olympic games — international sports event
- optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
- overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
- palaeoecology — the study of fossil animals and plants in order to deduce their ecology and the environmental conditions in which they lived
- paleomagnetic — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
- pedagogically — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.
- peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria