10-letter words containing o, c, e, l
- lectionary — a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service.
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- leech rope — a boltrope along a leech.
- lego brick — a toy plastic brick with studs which can be connected to other plastic bricks and used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc
- leiotrichy — the condition of having straight hair
- lemon curd — lemon paste made with eggs and sugar
- lenocinium — tacit encouragement of, or assent to, adultery committed by one's partner
- leontovich — Eugenie Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin/ (Show IPA), 1900–1993, U.S. actress, director, and playwright, born in Russia.
- leptosomic — a person of asthenic build.
- letchworth — a town in SE England, in N Hertfordshire: the first garden city in Great Britain (founded in 1903). Pop: 32 932 (2001)
- leuco base — a noncolored or slightly colored compound that is produced by reducing a dye and is readily oxidized to regenerate the dye.
- leucoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- leucocidin — an exotoxin, produced by bacteria, that destroys leucocytes
- leucocytes — Plural form of leucocyte.
- leucoderma — vitiligo.
- leucomaine — any of a group of toxic amines produced during animal metabolism
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- leucopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- leucorrhea — Alternative form of leukorrhea.
- leukocytes — white blood cell.
- leukocytic — Of or pertaining to leukocytes.
- leukopenic — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- lexicology — the study of the formation, meaning, and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words.
- licentious — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
- lich stone — a large stone on which to rest a coffin momentarily at the entrance to a cemetery.
- lienectomy — splenectomy.
- life coach — a person who advises clients on how to solve their problems and reach their goals in life: A life coach can help you make the right decisions in your career.
- life force — élan vital.
- lignocaine — lidocaine.
- liliaceous — of or like the lily.
- limicoline — shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to numerous birds of the families Charadriidae, comprising the plovers, and Scolopacidae, comprising the sandpipers.
- limoncello — A lemon-flavored Italian liqueur.
- line block — a letterpress printing block made by a photoengraving process without the use of a screen
- line score — a brief listing of the final score and major statistical totals of a game, esp. a baseball game
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- local echo — (communications) (Obsolete: "half-duplex") A mode of operation of a communications program or device in which it displays the characters the user enters at the same time as it sends them to the remote system. In communications between computers or computing processes, particularly those involving human keyboarding and/or reading, duplex came to mean the re-transmission of a keyboard character to the output display. Early input device such as the Teletype ASR-33 teleprinter, being descended from the electric typewriter, printed all input characters as they were typed (i.e. they did local echo). Local echo was typically optional on the video terminals that replaced them, and usually disabled in favour of remote echo. A disadvantage of local echo is that it will continue, even when the communication circuit has failed, which can be misleading.
- local time — the time based on the meridian through a specific place, as a city, in contrast to that of the time zone within which the place is located; the time in a specific place as compared to that of another place to the east or west.
- localities — Plural form of locality.
- localizers — Plural form of localizer.
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- lockkeeper — The person assigned to look after a canal or river lock, operating it and organizing its maintenance.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- lockshield — (attributive) A kind of radiator valve used to balance the system by restricting the flow of water on the return side.
- locomobile — automotive; self-propelling.
- locomotive — a self-propelled, vehicular engine, powered by steam, a diesel, or electricity, for pulling or, sometimes, pushing a train or individual railroad cars.
- loculament — (botany) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
- logic cell — a logic circuit forming part of a chip
- logic gate — gate1 (def 16b).
- logopedics — the study and treatment of speech defects.