13-letter words containing g, l, c
- legacy system — (jargon) A computer system or application program which continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and compatibility with modern equivalents. The implication is that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify. If legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.
- 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
- legal process — court procedure
- lethargically — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
- leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
- lexicographic — Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
- lexicological — the study of the formation, meaning, and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words.
- lexigraphical — Misspelling of lexicographical.
- li hung-chang — 1823–1901, Chinese statesman.
- licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- life-changing — having major impact on sb
- light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
- light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
- light vehicle — a vehicle designed to carry loads or a small number of passengers up to an officially determined weight, such as a scooter, motorbike, rickshaw, etc
- lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
- lincoln green — an olive-green color.
- lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
- lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
- linguistician — linguist (def 1).
- lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
- lithoglyptics — The art of cutting and engraving gems.
- 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.
- locus sigilli — See L.S (def 3).
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- logic circuit — a circuit designed to perform complex functions defined in terms of elementary functions of mathematical logic.
- logical shift — (programming) (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- logogrammatic — Of or pertaining to logograms; logographic.
- long vacation — the summer vacation customary in the law courts and universities.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
- lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
- lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
- mackerel gull — tern1 .
- macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
- macroglobulin — A plasma globulin of high molecular weight.
- magic lantern — a device having an enclosed lamp and a lenslike opening, formerly used for projecting and magnifying images mounted on slides or films.
- magic realism — a style of painting and literature in which fantastic or imaginary and often unsettling images or events are depicted in a sharply detailed, realistic manner.
- magistratical — Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate.
- 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 flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.
- magnetic lens — Physics. an electron lens using magnetic fields for focusing an electron beam.
- 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)
- magnificently — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.