13-letter words containing l, o, g, i, t
- killing frost — the occurrence of temperatures cold enough to kill all but the hardiest vegetation, especially the last such occurrence in spring and the first in fall, events that limit the agricultural growing season.
- kinesiologist — the science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to movement.
- knitting wool — wool used for knitting
- lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
- laryngologist — A person who studies or specializes in laryngology; a subspeciality of otorhinolaryngology.
- laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
- late-blooming — of or characteristic of a late bloomer: late-blooming brilliance.
- 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.
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- legionary ant — army ant
- legislatorial — of or relating to a legislator, legislature, or legislation; legislative.
- leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
- light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
- light-o'-love — a lover.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
- lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
- lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
- lithoglyptics — The art of cutting and engraving gems.
- lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
- litigiousness — of or relating to litigation.
- live together — cohabit
- living stones — any of various succulent plants of the genus Lithops, native to Africa, having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- loft building — a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- logging stone — rocking stone.
- logic circuit — a circuit designed to perform complex functions defined in terms of elementary functions of mathematical logic.
- 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.
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- logogrammatic — Of or pertaining to logograms; logographic.
- long fin tuna — a tunny, Thunnus alalunga, occurring mainly in warm regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. It has very long pectoral fins and is a valued food fish
- long vacation — the summer vacation customary in the law courts and universities.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- long-standing — existing or occurring for a long time: a longstanding feud.
- loose-fitting — (of a garment) fitting loosely; not following the contours of the body closely.
- lose sight of — no longer see
- losing battle — attempt doomed to failure
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- love triangle — relationship between three people
- magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- malariologist — An expert in malaria.
- marginal cost — the cost of one additional unit of any item produced or bought in quantity.
- marginal note — aside
- martagon lily — Turk's-cap lily.
- martyrologies — Plural form of martyrology.
- megaloblastic — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.