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15-letter words containing s, c, a, g

  • interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
  • jackass penguin — any of several boldly marked black and white penguins of the genus Spheniscus, especially S. demersus, of southern Africa, with a call resembling a donkey's bray.
  • king's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • legal successor — a person or thing that legally follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
  • lexical scoping — lexical scope
  • linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
  • logical address — virtual address
  • logical atomism — a philosophy developed from linguistic analysis asserting that a proposition can be analyzed into simple, independent elements of meaning corresponding to elements making up basic facts about the world and reality.
  • long-case clock — tall-case clock.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
  • macro-sociology — the sociological study of large-scale social systems and long-term patterns and processes.
  • macrosporangium — megasporangium.
  • magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • mascarene grass — a creeping grass, Zoysia tenuifolia, naturalized in California and Florida, having fine leaves and shoots that make good turf.
  • mass psychology — the study of the behavior of large groups of people.
  • measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
  • messier catalog — a catalog of nonstellar objects compiled by Charles Messier in 1784 and later slightly extended, now known to contain nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters.
  • metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
  • microaggression — a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other nondominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype: microaggressions such as "I don't see you as black.".
  • microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
  • mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • miscegenational — of or relating to miscegenation
  • miscoordinating — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
  • mucosanguineous — containing or made up of blood and mucus
  • musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
  • narcotics agent — an undercover agent who provides information to the police about illegal drugs, illegal drug trafficking, and users of illegal drugs
  • navigation acts — any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.
  • non-egotistical — pertaining to or characterized by egotism.
  • nonantagonistic — acting in opposition; opposing, especially mutually.
  • nonmucilaginous — Not mucilaginous.
  • nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
  • nuisance ground — a garbage dump.
  • oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
  • onomasiological — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
  • opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • optical storage — optical disk drive
  • opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
  • organic disease — a disease in which there is a structural alteration (opposed to functional disease).
  • organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
  • organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
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