21-letter words containing l, o, g

let well enough alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
level of significance — significance level.
light armored vehicle — an eight-wheeled armored reconnaissance car with a 25mm cannon, in service with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps in the 1980s.
like a shag on a rock — abandoned and alone
linear graph notation — (LGN) A linearised representation of TCOL trees.
linguistic philosophy — an approach to philosophical problems used especially by certain British and American philosophers, inspired by G. E. Moore, and marked by the elucidation of difficult and controversial concepts by resolving them into their elements.
live high off the hog — a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
loch ness monster bug — (humour) (Or "Bugfoot") A bug which cannot be reproduced or has only been sighted by one person. Named after the mythical creature claimed to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland.
logic design language — (language) A language for computer design.
long-term liabilities — Long-term liabilities are debts that a company does not have to pay back for a year or more.
lotus of the good law — Saddharma-Pundarika.
lucila godoy alcayaga — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
magneto-optical drive — magneto-optical disk
magnetocaloric effect — an increase or decrease of the temperature of a thermally isolated magnetic substance accompanying an increase or decrease in the intensity of a magnetic field.
magnetofluid dynamics — magnetohydrodynamics.
magnetoplasmadynamics — magnetohydrodynamics.
majority shareholding — a holding of more than half a company's shares
make a pig of oneself — If you say that someone is making a pig of themselves, you are criticizing them for eating a very large amount at one meal.
management consultant — A management consultant is someone whose job is to advise companies on the most efficient ways to run their business.
megaloblastic anaemia — any anaemia, esp pernicious anaemia, characterized by the presence of megaloblasts in the blood or bone marrow
megaspore mother cell — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
meter-kilogram-second — of or relating to the system of units in which the meter, kilogram, and second are the principal units of length, mass, and time. Abbreviation: mks, MKS.
mother-of-pearl glass — an American art glassware having colored glass set into indentations in a thickness of opaque glass, the whole covered with clear glass and etched slightly with acid.
multi-ringed compound — A multi-ringed compound is a compound which has 70 or more carbon atoms, often a residual compound.
narrow-angle glaucoma — Ophthalmology. angle-closure glaucoma. See under glaucoma.
national savings bank — (in Britain) a government savings bank, run through the post office, esp for small savers
negotiable instrument — order or promise to pay money
negotiable securities — securities that are legally transferable in title from one party to another
network filing system — (spelling) Misnomer for Network File System.
new general catalogue — NGC.
night-blooming cereus — any of various cacti of the genera Hylocereus, Peniocereus, Nyctocereus, or Selenicereus, having large, usually white flowers that open at night.
non-repeating decimal — a decimal representation of any irrational number, having the property that no sequence of digits is repeated ad infinitum.
nothing in particular — not anything specific
occupational guidance — advice and guidance relating to employment issues and career choices
open graphics library — (graphics, library) (OpenGL) A multi-platform software interface to graphics hardware, supporting rendering and imaging operations. The OpenGL interface was developed by Silicon Graphics, who license it to other vendors. The OpenGL graphics interface consists of several hundred functions operating on 2D and 3D objects, supporting basic techniques, such as modelling and smooth shading, and advanced techniques, such as texture mapping and motion blur. Many operations require a frame buffer. OpenGL is network-transparent, and a common extension to the X Window System allows an OpenGL client to communicate across a network with a different vendor's OpenGL server. OpenGL is based on Silicon Graphics' proprietary IRIS GL.
open trading protocol — Internet Open Trading Protocol
orthogonal projection — a two-dimensional graphic representation of an object in which the projecting lines are at right angles to the plane of the projection. Also called orthogonal projection. Compare isometric (def 5).
orthogonal trajectory — the locus of a point whose path cuts each curve of a family of curves at right angles.
otorhinolaryngologist — (medicine) Doctor specializing in otorhinolaryngology, the study of ear, nose, and throat.
overhead-valve engine — I-head engine.
packed encoding rules — (protocol, standard) (PER) ASN.1 encoding rules for producing a compact transfer syntax for data structures described in ASN.1, defined in 1994. PER provides a much more compact encoding then BER. It tries to represents the data units using the minimum number of bits. The compactness requires that the decoder knows the complete abstract syntax of the data structure to be decoded, however. Documents: ITU-T X.691, ISO 8825-2.
physical anthropology — the branch of anthropology dealing with the evolutionary changes in human anatomy and physiology, using mensurational and descriptive techniques.
ploughman's spikenard — a European plant, Inula conyza, with tubular yellowish flower heads surrounded by purple bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
pneumoencephalography — encephalography.
polarizing microscope — a microscope that utilizes polarized light to reveal detail in an object, used especially to study crystalline and fibrous structures.
polygenic inheritance — the heredity of complex characters that are determined by a large number of genes, each one usually having a relatively small effect.
programmed cell death — a normal, genetically regulated process leading to the death of cells and triggered by the presence or absence of certain stimuli, as DNA damage.
psychological primary — one of a set of perceived colours (red, yellow, blue, green, black, and white) that can be used to characterize all other perceived colours
psychological warfare — the use of propaganda, threats, and other psychological techniques to mislead, intimidate, demoralize, or otherwise influence the thinking or behavior of an opponent.
psychoneuroimmunology — the study of the effects of psychological factors on the immune system

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