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13-letter words containing g, l, c

  • plagiocephaly — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
  • playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
  • playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
  • polemological — the analysis of human conflict and war, particularly international war.
  • policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
  • polling place — a place at or in which votes in an election are cast.
  • polygalaceous — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
  • polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
  • potamological — of or relating to potamology
  • pragmatically — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • praxiological — the study of human conduct.
  • prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • radical right — the faction representing extreme right-wing political views; ultraconservatives; reactionaries.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
  • recognitional — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • resting place — grave
  • revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • rheologically — in a rheological manner
  • riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
  • road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • rock climbing — the sport of climbing sheer rocky surfaces on the sides of mountains, often with the aid of special equipment.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
  • rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
  • sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • scanning line — (in a cathode-ray or television tube) a single horizontal trace made by the electron beam in one traversal of the fluorescent screen. Compare frame (def 9).
  • scarlet gilia — skyrocket.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
  • schoolgirlish — like or characteristic of a schoolgirl
  • scintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
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