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13-letter words containing l, o, g, i, t

  • trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
  • triangulation — a technique for establishing the distance between any two points, or the relative position of two or more points, by using such points as vertices of a triangle or series of triangles, such that each triangle has a side of known or measurable length (base or base line) that permits the size of the angles of the triangle and the length of its other two sides to be established by observations taken either upon or from the two ends of the base line.
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • tung-oil tree — tung tree.
  • twilight glow — a dim light from the upper atmosphere caused by emissions from atoms and molecules ionized by solar radiation: observed at night (nightglow) during the day (dayglow) and at twilight (twilight glow) with each having slightly different characteristics.
  • twilight zone — the lowest level of the ocean that light can reach.
  • typographical — of or relating to typography.
  • typologically — the doctrine or study of types or prefigurative symbols, especially in scriptural literature.
  • tzom gedaliah — a Jewish fast day observed on the third day of the month of Tishri in memory of the treacherous murder of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.
  • uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
  • unconflicting — being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints.
  • uncontrolling — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
  • union catalog — a library catalog combining the catalogs of several different libraries or different divisions of one library
  • unoriginality — the quality or state of being original.
  • untheological — not theological; not of or pertaining to the nature of theology
  • unwithholding — not withholding; giving freely
  • uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
  • ustilagineous — belonging to the Ustilaginales, an order of fungi that cause plant disease
  • vaccinologist — the science of vaccine development.
  • vegetable oil — any of a large group of oils that are esters of fatty acids and glycerol, obtained from the leaves, fruit, or seeds of plants.
  • venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
  • vexillologist — the study of flags.
  • victimologist — the study of crime victims and the psychological effects of being a victim.
  • village idiot — someone who is well known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour
  • villagization — the transfer of land to village control.
  • virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
  • volcanologist — the scientific study of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena.
  • volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
  • vulgarization — to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase: to vulgarize standards of behavior.
  • walk with god — to lead a godly, morally upright life
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
  • whitlow grass — any of various plants of the genera Draba and Erophila, once thought to cure whitlows: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • wild bergamot — a plant, Monarda fistulosa, of the mint family, native to eastern North America, having a rounded cluster of lilac-colored or purple flowers, growing in dry places.
  • wine-bottling — the process of transferring wine from a large container to individual bottles
  • woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
  • working title — name or heading of sth while in progress
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