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13-letter words containing i, c, n, g, o, t

  • giant scallop — sea scallop.
  • gin and tonic — a drink made with gin and quinine water, served in a tall glass and usually garnished with a slice of lime or lemon.
  • glocalisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of glocalization.
  • glocalization — The practice of conducting business according to both local and global considerations.
  • glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
  • glycosylation — (chemistry, biochemistry) The reaction of a saccharide with a hydroxy or amino functional group to form a glycoside; especially the reaction with a protein or lipid to form a glycoprotein or glycolipid.
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
  • gonochoristic — Of or pertaining to gonochorism.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
  • graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
  • gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
  • great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
  • greater ionic — Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders that in ancient Greece consisted of a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of four volutes, usually parallel to the architrave with a pulvinus connecting a pair on each side of the column, and an entablature typically consisting of an architrave of three fascias, a richly ornamented frieze, and a cornice corbeled out on egg-and-dart and dentil moldings, with the frieze sometimes omitted. Roman and Renaissance examples are often more elaborate, and usually set the volutes of the capitals at 45° to the architrave. Compare composite (def 3), Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Tuscan (def 2).
  • group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
  • gynaecologist — (UK, Canada, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
  • gynaecomastia — abnormal overdevelopment of the breasts in a man
  • gynecologists — Plural form of gynecologist.
  • heterogenetic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.
  • historicizing — Present participle of historicize.
  • hitching post — a post to which horses, mules, etc., are tied.
  • homogenetical — of, involving or relating to homogeny
  • housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
  • hypothecating — Present participle of hypothecate.
  • ignition coil — (in an automotive ignition system) a transformer consisting of two wire windings or coils in which low-voltage direct current is fed through the primary winding to generate high-voltage spark pulses in the secondary winding.
  • incongruently — not congruent.
  • incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
  • incorporating — to form into a legal corporation.
  • incouragement — Archaic form of encouragement.
  • insectologist — a person who studies insectology
  • intercropping — Present participle of intercrop.
  • intercrossing — Present participle of intercross.
  • introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
  • irrecognition — lack or absence of recognition
  • it governance — information technology governance
  • lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
  • light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
  • lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
  • 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.
  • logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
  • 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.
  • magnetic core — Computers. core1 (def 12a).
  • 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)
  • magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
  • magnetometric — Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, 'magnetometric' instruments; 'magnetometric' measurements.
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