11-letter words containing l, e, n, c
- glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
- glycerinate — to impregnate with glycerin.
- glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
- godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden calf — a golden idol set up by Aaron and worshiped by the Israelites. Ex. 32.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- gracileness — The state or quality of being gracile.
- grand-scale — of large proportion, extent, magnitude, etc.: grand-scale efforts; a grand-scale approach.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- great-uncle — a granduncle.
- greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
- gun culture — the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used
- gun licence — an official document granting a person permission to own and use a gun, usually subject to various restrictions
- gynaecology — Alternative form of gynecology.
- gynecologic — the branch of medical science that deals with the health maintenance and diseases of women, especially of the reproductive organs. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- hatchelling — Present participle of hatchel.
- heckelphone — A woodwind instrument resembling a large oboe, with a range about an octave lower.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- hellenistic — pertaining to Hellenists.
- helminthics — Plural form of helminthic.
- hemicranial — Relating to hemicrania.
- heraclitean — of or relating to Heraclitus or his philosophy.
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- hotel chain — a group of hotels which belong to the same company or owner, or are associated in some way
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- hypocentral — (geology) Of or pertaining to the hypocentre of an earthquake.
- iconophiles — a connoisseur of icons or images.
- identically — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- illicitness — not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful.
- illuminance — illumination (def 6).
- implacental — Zoology. having no placenta, as a monotreme or marsupial.
- in articles — formerly, undergoing training, according to the terms of a written contract, in the legal profession
- in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
- in lockstep — When members of the armed forces march in lockstep, they march very close to each other.
- in place of — instead of, replacing
- in the club — pregnant