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13-letter words containing o, l, i, c

  • lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
  • lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
  • ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
  • lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
  • laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • laparoscopies — Plural form of laparoscopy.
  • laparoscopist — One who carries out laparoscopy.
  • large calorie — kilocalorie.
  • laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
  • laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
  • 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.
  • launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
  • leading block — lead block.
  • legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
  • lepidocrocite — a ruby-red to reddish-brown orthorhombic mineral, iron oxyhydroxide, FeO(OH), dimorphous with goethite: an ore of iron, used as a pigment.
  • leptocephalic — having a narrow skull
  • leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
  • leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • lexical order — the arrangement of a set of items in accordance with a recursive algorithm, such as the entries in a dictionary whose order depends on their first letter unless these are the same in which case it is the second which decides, and so on
  • lexical scope — (programming)   (Or "static scope") When the scope of an identifier is fixed at compile time to some region in the source code containing the identifier's declaration. This means that an identifier is only accessible within that region (including procedures declared within it). This contrasts with dynamic scope where the scope depends on the nesting of procedure and function calls at run time. Statically scoped languages differ as to whether the scope is limited to the smallest block (including begin/end blocks) containing the identifier's declaration (e.g. C, Perl) or to whole function and procedure bodies (e.g. ECMAScript), or some larger unit of code (e.g. ?). The former is known as static nested scope.
  • lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
  • lexicographic — Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
  • lexicological — the study of the formation, meaning, and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words.
  • lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
  • light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
  • lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
  • lincoln green — an olive-green color.
  • lincoln's inn — See under Inns of Court (def 1).
  • line of force — an imaginary line representing a field of force, such as an electric or magnetic field, such that the tangent at any point is the direction of the field vector at that point
  • lines of code — (programming, unit)   (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
  • linoleic acid — an unsaturated fatty acid, C 18 H 32 O 2 , occurring as a glyceride in drying oils, as in linseed oil.
  • lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
  • liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
  • lissotrichous — having straight hair.
  • literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
  • lithification — the process or processes by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction or cementation.
  • lithoglyptics — The art of cutting and engraving gems.
  • lithontriptic — of or relating to destroying bladder or kidney stones
  • little casino — the two of spades.
  • little office — (sometimes initial capital letters) Roman Catholic Church. an office similar to but shorter than the divine office, in honor of a saint, a mystery, or, especially, the Virgin Mary.
  • livery colors — the principal tinctures of a coat of arms, usually one color and one metal, used for liveries, standards, etc.
  • lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
  • load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • local council — the governing body of a county, district, etc
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