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13-letter words containing c, o, n, e, l

  • laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
  • laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
  • 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.
  • lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
  • 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
  • legal offence — a crime that breaks a particular law and requires a particular punishment
  • leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • 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.
  • lincoln green — an olive-green color.
  • line of force — an imaginary line representing a field of force, such as an electric or magnetic field, such that the tangent at any point is the direction of the field vector at that point
  • lines of code — (programming, unit)   (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
  • linoleic acid — an unsaturated fatty acid, C 18 H 32 O 2 , occurring as a glyceride in drying oils, as in linseed oil.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • little casino — the two of spades.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
  • long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
  • lorentz force — the force on a charged particle moving through a region containing both electric and magnetic fields.
  • 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
  • low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
  • lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
  • lowerclassman — underclassman.
  • lowerclassmen — underclassman.
  • ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • 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 club — (in Britain) an arrangement or organization for serving hot midday meals for a small charge to old people in clubs or daycentres
  • 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.
  • macro-mineral — any mineral required in the diet in relatively large amounts, especially calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
  • macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
  • 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.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • maliciousness — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
  • malleoincudal — Of or relating to both the malleus and the incus.
  • manhole cover — a removable metal plate covering a shaft that leads down to a sewer or drain
  • manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • megalomaniacs — Plural form of megalomaniac.
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