13-letter words containing c, o, r, a, l
- large calorie — kilocalorie.
- laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
- laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
- lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
- legal process — court procedure
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- lexical order — the arrangement of a set of items in accordance with a recursive algorithm, such as the entries in a dictionary whose order depends on their first letter unless these are the same in which case it is the second which decides, and so on
- lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
- lexicographic — Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
- lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
- 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
- lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- logogrammatic — Of or pertaining to logograms; logographic.
- 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
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- lower chamber — lower house.
- lowerclassman — underclassman.
- lowerclassmen — underclassman.
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
- lymphosarcoma — a malignant tumor in lymphatic tissue, caused by the growth of abnormal lymphocytes.
- macro-mineral — any mineral required in the diet in relatively large amounts, especially calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
- macrocephalic — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- macroclimates — Plural form of macroclimate.
- macroclimatic — Relating to macroclimate.
- macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
- macroglobulin — A plasma globulin of high molecular weight.
- macrolecithal — megalecithal.
- macromolecule — a very large molecule, as a colloidal particle, protein, or especially a polymer, composed of hundreds or thousands of atoms.
- macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
- macroplankton — planktonic organisms of about 1 mm in length.
- macroscopical — Macroscopic.
- macrovascular — Of or pertaining to the larger blood vessels.
- maculopapular — (medicine, of a rash) Consisting of a flat, red area on the skin that is covered with small confluent bumps, as in scarlet fever and measles.
- major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
- 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.
- maltese cross — a cross having four equal arms that expand in width outward.
- manhole cover — a removable metal plate covering a shaft that leads down to a sewer or drain
- many-coloured — having many colours
- marginal cost — the cost of one additional unit of any item produced or bought in quantity.
- master policy — a single policy covering a group of people, typically employees of a company, issued to an employer.