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15-letter words containing g, a, e, l, i, c

  • glycaemic index — an index indicating the effects of various foods on blood sugar. Fast-releasing foods that raise blood sugar levels quickly are high on the index, while slow-releasing foods, at the bottom of the index, give a slow but sustained release of sugar
  • glycogenic acid — gluconic acid.
  • goal difference — the number of goals scored by a team minus the number of goals it has conceded
  • governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
  • grammaticalness — (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
  • gravimetrically — (chemistry) Using a gravimetric method.
  • grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • hanging glacier — a glacier situated on a shelf above a valley or another glacier; it may be joined to the lower level by an icefall or separate from it
  • heliacal rising — rising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun
  • hepaticological — of or relating to hepaticology
  • highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • insuring clause — the clause in an insurance policy setting forth the kind and degree of coverage granted by the insurer.
  • interchangeable — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • intercollegiate — taking place between or participating in activities between different colleges: intercollegiate athletics.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • leading article — Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • lexical meaning — the meaning of a base morpheme.
  • lexical scoping — lexical scope
  • lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • lexicologically — Describing a relation to lexicology.
  • linear-tracking — (of a tone arm) designed to move across a phonograph record in a straight line, instead of an arc, so that as the needle tracks the groove, its orientation remains unchanged.
  • linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
  • logical address — virtual address
  • long-grain rice — a type of rice that has long grains, rather than round grains
  • low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
  • lucrezia borgia — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.
  • luggage carrier — car accessory
  • lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
  • magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
  • magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
  • magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
  • magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
  • magnetoelectric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
  • mailing machine — a machine that prepares mail for sending, as by addressing, stamping, weighing, etc.
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
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