15-letter words containing o, c, u, l, g
- elections judge — someone who oversees an election
- electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
- elegiac couplet — a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
- ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
- galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
- gloucester city — a city in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
- glucocorticoids — Plural form of glucocorticoid.
- gluconeogenesis — glucose formation in animals from a noncarbohydrate source, as from proteins or fats.
- gluconeogenetic — Of or pertaining to gluconeogenesis.
- glucuronic acid — Biochemistry. an acid, C 6 H 10 O 7 , formed by the oxidation of glucose, found combined with other products of metabolism in the blood and urine.
- glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- graph colouring — (application) A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
- groutlock brick — a brick chamfered on its inner angles to allow space for vertical and horizontal reinforcing rods sealed in grout.
- guild socialism — a form of socialism developed in England in the 20th century, emphasizing decentralization of industry and services with control to be vested in autonomous guilds of workers.
- gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
- gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
- haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- immunologically — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- legal successor — a person or thing that legally follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- lignocellulosic — (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
- lucrezia borgia — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.
- microhomologous — (genetics) Exhibiting microhomology.
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
- motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
- multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
- neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurolinguistic — pertaining to neurolinguistics
- neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
- neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
- neurotoxicology — the science that deals with the effects of poisons on the nervous system.
- nonagricultural — not applied to or generally practicing agriculture: a nonagricultural nation.
- nonmucilaginous — Not mucilaginous.
- object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
- occulting light — a beacon having a light covered briefly at regular intervals.
- office building — building containing offices
- oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.