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15-letter words containing g, l, a, t

  • cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
  • circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
  • city of glasgow — a council area in W central Scotland. Pop: 593 000 (2010 est). Area: 175 sq km (68 sq miles)
  • cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
  • clotting factor — any one of a group of substances, including factor VIII, the presence of which in the blood is essential for blood clotting to occur
  • coaling station — a port at which vessels can take on coal
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • college station — a city in E central Texas.
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
  • conceptualizing — Present participle of conceptualize.
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • configurational — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
  • conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
  • congratulations — You say 'Congratulations' to someone in order to congratulate them on something nice that has happened to them or something good that they have done.
  • constable glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century, having a heavy foot, a tall body, and a capacity of 1 quart (0.946 liters).
  • contextualising — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • contextualizing — Present participle of contextualize.
  • control program — (operating system)   (CP) The component of IBM's Virtual Machine (VM) that provides "guest support" for operating systems that run on IBM mainframe compatible processors. Cp does this by providing a seamless emulation of privileged functions in the problem program environment.
  • controller gain — In a control loop, the controller gain is the strength of action a controller will take at a particular point below or above the setpoint.
  • counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
  • counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • cradle-to-grave — extending throughout one's life, from birth to death: a cradle-to-grave system of health care.
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • critical region — that part of a statistical distribution in which the probability of a given hypothesis is less than the chosen significance level, so that the hypothesis would be rejected
  • crossing patrol — a person who holds up the traffic so that school children can cross the road safely
  • crustaceologist — One who studies crustaceology.
  • cryptographical — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
  • crystal healing — (in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field
  • crystallography — the science concerned with the formation, properties, and structure of crystals
  • cultural cringe — the perception that one's own culture is inferior to that of another group or country
  • culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
  • cytogenetically — (medicine, biology) By means or in terms of cytogenetics, the genetics of the cell.
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
  • daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
  • daylight saving — the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it back by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening.
  • deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
  • deculturalizing — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
  • deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
  • delaying action — a measure or measures taken to gain time, as when weaker military forces harass the advance of a superior enemy without coming to a pitched battle
  • delaying tactic — Delaying tactics are things that someone does in order to deliberately delay the start or progress of something.
  • dematerializing — Present participle of dematerialize.
  • denationalizing — Present participle of denationalize.
  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
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