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14-letter words containing r, c, o, l, u

  • glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • ground control — an airport facility that supervises the movement of aircraft and ground vehicles on ramps and taxiways.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
  • heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • holy sepulcher — the sepulcher in which the body of Jesus lay between His burial and His resurrection.
  • holy sepulchre — the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion
  • homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
  • honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
  • horticulturist — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
  • humoristically — In a humoristic way.
  • hydrocellulose — a gelatinous substance obtained by the partial hydrolysis of cellulose, used chiefly in the manufacture of paper, mercerized cotton, and viscose rayon.
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hydrosulphuric — Alternative spelling of hydrosulfuric.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • ichthyolatrous — relating to the worship of fish or divination by means of fish parts
  • in circulation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
  • inarticulation — (uncountable) The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness.
  • insulinotropic — That stimulates or affects the production of insulin.
  • insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
  • interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
  • interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
  • internucleonic — internuclear
  • intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
  • introductorily — By way of introduction.
  • irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
  • junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.
  • junior counsel — a body of barristers who are lower in rank than the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, and who plead outside the bar in the court.
  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
  • keep your cool — remain calm
  • kleene closure — Kleene star
  • lauryl alcohol — a compound that, depending upon purity, is either a crystalline solid or colorless liquid, C 12 H 26 O, obtained by the reduction of fatty acids of coconut oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic detergents.
  • lecture course — a series of lectures on a particular subject
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • liquor license — a licence that allows the proprietor of a store, bar, etc, to sell alcohol
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • loud and clear — loudly and clearly
  • luggage locker — a large locker at a transport terminal or airport where luggage can be left temporarily
  • macrocephalous — Having a large head.
  • macrodactylous — related to or having macrodactyly
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
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