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13-letter words containing l, e, n, i, c

  • film sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
  • fin de siecle — the end of the 19th century.
  • finback whale — rorqual
  • fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
  • finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
  • flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
  • floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
  • flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
  • fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
  • fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
  • free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalize — to make functional.
  • galactosamine — an amino sugar that is a major component of glycolipids and chondroitin.
  • galvanic cell — cell1 (def 7a).
  • galvanic pile — voltaic pile.
  • galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
  • gelsenkirchen — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley.
  • gene splicing — recombinant DNA technology.
  • gene-splicing — recombinant DNA technology.
  • general magic — A software company based in Mountain View, California. Products released in 1994 after four years in development include: Telescript - a communications-oriented programming language; Magic Cap - an OOPS designed for PDAs; and a new, third generation GUI. Motorola's Envoy, due for release in the third quarter of 1994, will use Magic Cap as its OS. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols. Competitors for Magic Cap include Microsoft's Windows for Pens/Winpad, PenPoint, Apple Computer's Newton Intelligence and GEOS by GeoWorks.
  • genotypically — With reference to a genotype.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • geodesic line — the shortest line lying on a given surface and connecting two given points.
  • gesticulating — Present participle of gesticulate.
  • gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
  • glass ceiling — an upper limit to professional advancement that is imposed upon women, minorities, and other nondominant groups and is not readily perceived or openly acknowledged: It’s more difficult for women of color to break through the glass ceiling.
  • glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
  • glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
  • gluconeogenic — glucose formation in animals from a noncarbohydrate source, as from proteins or fats.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • 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.
  • grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
  • 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.
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • gynaecologist — (UK, Canada, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
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