15-letter words containing l, e, g, a, c, u
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- insuring clause — the clause in an insurance policy setting forth the kind and degree of coverage granted by the insurer.
- language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- leakage current — A leakage current is an electric current in an unwanted conductive path under normal operating conditions.
- leakage-current — an act of leaking; leak.
- legal successor — a person or thing that legally follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
- linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- lucrezia borgia — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.
- luggage carrier — car accessory
- lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
- magna cum laude — with great praise: used in diplomas to grant the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
- 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.
- 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.
- musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
- neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
- nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
- object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
- organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
- picture gallery — place where art is exhibited and sold
- plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
- plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
- plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
- plug compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
- plug-compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- preagricultural — existing or occurring prior to the introduction of agriculture; of or relating to a society existing at this time
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- sauce espagnole — brown sauce.
- school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
- sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
- second language — a language learned by a person after his or her native language, especially as a resident of an area where it is in general use.
- shoulder charge — an instance of a player charging into another so that there is contact between their shoulders (permissible in some circumstances)
- source language — the language in which a text appears that is to be translated into another language. Compare target language (def 1).
- structural gene — cistron.
- subject catalog — a catalog having entries listed by subject only.
- surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
- surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
- talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
- the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
- tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
- ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.