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13-letter words containing l, i, s, c

  • laparoscopist — One who carries out laparoscopy.
  • lapsus calami — a slip of the pen.
  • laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
  • laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
  • 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.
  • lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • let's face it — You use the expression 'let's face it' when you are stating a fact or making a comment about something which you think the person you are talking to may find unpleasant or be unwilling to admit.
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
  • lexical scope — (programming)   (Or "static scope") When the scope of an identifier is fixed at compile time to some region in the source code containing the identifier's declaration. This means that an identifier is only accessible within that region (including procedures declared within it). This contrasts with dynamic scope where the scope depends on the nesting of procedure and function calls at run time. Statically scoped languages differ as to whether the scope is limited to the smallest block (including begin/end blocks) containing the identifier's declaration (e.g. C, Perl) or to whole function and procedure bodies (e.g. ECMAScript), or some larger unit of code (e.g. ?). The former is known as static nested scope.
  • license plate — a plate or tag, usually of metal, bearing evidence of official registration and permission, as for the use of a motor vehicle.
  • lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
  • lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
  • lickety-split — at great speed; rapidly: to travel lickety-split.
  • liechtenstein — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
  • life instinct — suicidal tendency or inclination; predisposition to self-destruction.
  • life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
  • life sentence — a sentence condemning a convicted felon to spend the rest of his or her life in prison.
  • light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • limbic system — a ring of interconnected structures in the midline of the brain around the hypothalamus, involved with emotion and memory and with homeostatic regulatory systems.
  • lincoln's inn — See under Inns of Court (def 1).
  • line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
  • lines of code — (programming, unit)   (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
  • linguistician — linguist (def 1).
  • liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
  • lipstick tree — annatto (def 1).
  • liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • lissotrichous — having straight hair.
  • list enhanced — (operating system, tool)   An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
  • literacy test — an examination to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements for voting, serving in the armed forces, etc.; a test of one's ability to read and write.
  • lithoglyptics — The art of cutting and engraving gems.
  • little casino — the two of spades.
  • livery colors — the principal tinctures of a coat of arms, usually one color and one metal, used for liveries, standards, etc.
  • localisations — Plural form of localisation.
  • locus sigilli — See L.S (def 3).
  • logical shift — (programming)   (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
  • long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
  • lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
  • loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
  • love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
  • low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
  • lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
  • ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
  • lunar caustic — silver nitrate, AgNO 3 , especially in a sticklike mold, used to cauterize tissues.
  • lunar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
  • lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
  • lymphocytosis — an abnormal increase in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
  • lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
  • machiavellism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
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