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15-letter words containing c, o, l, g, a

  • indicator light — a device for indicating that a motor vehicle is about to turn left or right; blinker
  • intercollegiate — taking place between or participating in activities between different colleges: intercollegiate athletics.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
  • language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • legal successor — a person or thing that legally follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
  • lexical scoping — lexical scope
  • lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • lexicologically — Describing a relation to lexicology.
  • limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
  • logarithmically — In a logarithmic manner.
  • logging company — a company that fells trees and sells timber
  • logical address — virtual address
  • logical atomism — a philosophy developed from linguistic analysis asserting that a proposition can be analyzed into simple, independent elements of meaning corresponding to elements making up basic facts about the world and reality.
  • long-case clock — tall-case clock.
  • long-grain rice — a type of rice that has long grains, rather than round grains
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
  • low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
  • lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
  • lucrezia borgia — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.
  • macro-sociology — the sociological study of large-scale social systems and long-term patterns and processes.
  • magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
  • magnetoelectric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • mass psychology — the study of the behavior of large groups of people.
  • megalithic tomb — a burial chamber constructed of large stones, either underground or covered by a mound and usually consisting of long transepted corridors (gallery graves) or of a distinct chamber and passage (passage graves). The tombs may date from the 4th millennium bc
  • megalokaryocyte — Megakaryocyte.
  • messier catalog — a catalog of nonstellar objects compiled by Charles Messier in 1784 and later slightly extended, now known to contain nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters.
  • metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
  • metallo-organic — organometallic.
  • microbiological — Of or pertaining to microbiology.
  • mineralogically — With regard to mineralogy.
  • miscegenational — of or relating to miscegenation
  • monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
  • morphologically — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
  • neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • new archaeology — a reorientation of archaeology, dating from the 1960s, that emphasizes an explicitly scientific, problem-oriented, deductive approach to research.
  • non-egotistical — pertaining to or characterized by egotism.
  • non-evangelical — Also, evangelic. pertaining to or in keeping with the gospel and its teachings.
  • non-grammatical — (of a sentence or expression) not conforming to the grammatical rules of a given language.
  • nonagricultural — not applied to or generally practicing agriculture: a nonagricultural nation.
  • nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
  • nonbiologically — in a nonbiological way, not in a biological way
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