13-letter words containing o, l, i, g, e, n
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- illogicalness — The quality of being illogical.
- imago on-line — An Internet electronic mail and news service in the United Kingdom provided by Imago Europe plc. A one year subscription to the service costs just seventy five pounds plus VAT and offers dial-up access with a graphical user interface for users of Macintosh and Microsoft Windows PCs and the Apple Newton MessagePad PDA family.
- incognoscible — (rare, dated) Not capable of being known; incomprehensible.
- incongruently — not congruent.
- incorrigibles — Plural form of incorrigible.
- insectologist — a person who studies insectology
- insulinogenic — Promoting the production of insulin.
- interpolating — Present participle of interpolate.
- interregional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
- interreligous — Between religions.
- intraregional — Within a region.
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- irreligionist — One who is irreligious.
- isogonal line — an imaginary line, or one drawn on a map, connecting all points of equal magnetic declination.
- james gosling — (person) The software engineer who wrote GOSMACS, and served as Sun Microsystems, Inc. project leader for both NeWS, and Java. He is currently (1997) a Vice President and "Distinguished Engineer" at Sun.
- junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
- kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
- kinesiologist — the science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to movement.
- king's yellow — a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment (king's yellow) and in pyrotechnics.
- labiogression — location of the anterior teeth forward of their natural position.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
- laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
- late-blooming — of or characteristic of a late bloomer: late-blooming brilliance.
- leading block — lead block.
- leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- leghemoglobin — a hemoglobinlike red pigment in the root nodules of leguminous plants, as soybean, that is essential for nitrogen fixation.
- legionary ant — army ant
- legionellosis — An infectious disease caused by Legionella bacteria, taking one of two distinct forms: Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever.
- leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
- leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
- light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
- lincoln green — an olive-green color.
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
- liquid oxygen — a clear, pale blue liquid obtained by compressing oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point: used chiefly as an oxidizer in liquid rocket propellants.
- litigiousness — of or relating to litigation.
- 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.
- load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.