15-letter words containing g, i, t, c
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
- interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
- joint financing — the provision of funds for a project, etc, from two or more sources
- 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
- leading article — Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.
- lightning chess — rapid chess in which either each move has a fixed time allowed (usually 10 seconds) or each player is allotted a fixed time (often 5 minutes) for all his moves
- limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
- 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.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- logarithmically — In a logarithmic manner.
- 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.
- lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
- 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 course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- magnetic domain — a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.
- magnetic mirror — a region in a magnetic bottle where the magnetic field increases abruptly, causing charged particles that enter it to be reflected.
- magnetic moment — a vector quantity associated with a given electric current, magnet, or the like, having the property that its vector product with the magnetic induction equals the torque acting on the given object.
- 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 pickup — a phonograph pickup in which the vibrations of the stylus cause variations in or motions of a coil in a magnetic field that produces corresponding variations in an electrical voltage.
- magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
- magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
- 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.
- megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.
- 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.
- metallo-organic — organometallic.
- metallurgically — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- metric topology — a topology for a space in which open sets are defined in terms of a given metric.
- microangiopathy — any disease of the small blood vessels.
- microbiologists — Plural form of microbiologist.
- microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
- microgametocyte — a gametocyte that produces microgametes
- microgeneration — the small-scale generation of electrical power, through means such as solar or wind power
- micromanagement — The direct management of a project etc to an excessive degree, with too much attention to detail and insufficient delegation.
- micropegmatitic — relating to, or designating, a microscopic pegmatitic structure
- microphotograph — microfilm (def 1).
- microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
- microtopography — microrelief.
- microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
- mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- miscegenational — of or relating to miscegenation