0%

15-letter words containing g, u, i, l

  • lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
  • lucrezia borgia — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.
  • luggage carrier — car accessory
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • lump uncurrying — Chin's generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples.
  • lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
  • luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • 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 pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • malpighian tuft — glomerulus (def 2).
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • manual training — training in the various manual arts and crafts, as woodworking.
  • measuring glass — a graduated glass container used to measure quantities of liquid
  • metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
  • metallurgically — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
  • microhomologous — (genetics) Exhibiting microhomology.
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
  • microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
  • miles gloriosus — a braggart soldier, esp as a stock figure in comedy
  • minimum tillage — no-tillage.
  • monumentalizing — Present participle of monumentalize.
  • motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • multi-binprolog — (language)   A multi-threaded Linda-style parallel extension to BinProlog for Solaris 2.3. Version: 3.30.
  • multilingualism — using or able to speak several or many languages with some facility.
  • multiple voting — the casting of ballots in more than one constituency in one election, as in England before the election reform of 1918.
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
  • musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
  • nation-building — Journalists sometimes use nation-building to refer to government policies that are designed to create a strong sense of national identity.
  • national league — the older of the two major professional U.S. baseball leagues, established in 1876. Abbreviation: N.L.
  • native language — first language, mother tongue
  • natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
  • negro spiritual — a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American South
  • neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
  • neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • neuroimmunology — a branch of immunology concerned with the interactions between immunological and nervous system functions, especially as they apply to various autoimmune diseases.
  • neurolinguistic — pertaining to neurolinguistics
  • neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
  • neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • neurotoxicology — the science that deals with the effects of poisons on the nervous system.
  • nonagricultural — not applied to or generally practicing agriculture: a nonagricultural nation.
  • nonmucilaginous — Not mucilaginous.
  • nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
  • numismatologist — One versed in numismatology.
  • oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?