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16-letter words containing s, c, o, g

  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • incorrigibleness — The quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.
  • isoplastic graft — syngraft.
  • jacobson's organ — either of a pair of blind, tubular, olfactory sacs in the roof of the mouth, vestigial in humans but well-developed in many animals, especially reptiles.
  • kangaroo closure — a form of closure in which the chair or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes others
  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
  • lapsang souchong — a large-leafed variety of China tea with a slightly smoky flavour
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • learning process — a process of learning
  • liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
  • light microscope — microscope (def 1).
  • lighthouse clock — an American mantel clock of the early 19th century, having the dial and works exposed beneath a glass dome on a tapered, cylindrical body.
  • linguistic stock — a parent language and all its derived dialects and languages.
  • logical constant — one of the connectives of a given system of formal logic, esp those of the sentential calculus, not, and, or, and if … then …
  • long-tail claims — Long-tail claims are claims that are made or settled a long time after the insurance policy has expired.
  • macro-linguistic — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macrolinguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • mad-dog skullcap — a North American skullcap, Scutellaria lateriflora, having underground stems and one-sided clusters of blue to white flowers.
  • magazine section — a magazinelike section in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, containing articles rather than news items and often letters, reviews, stories, puzzles, etc.
  • magmatic stoping — the process by which country rock is broken up and engulfed by the upward movement of magma
  • magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
  • magnetic compass — a compass having a magnetized needle generally in line with the magnetic poles of the earth.
  • magnetoacoustics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of physics studying the effects of magnetism on acoustics or their interaction.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • magnetoreceptors — Plural form of magnetoreceptor.
  • magnetostriction — a change in dimensions exhibited by ferromagnetic materials when subjected to a magnetic field.
  • magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
  • malacostracology — (obsolete) carcinology, the study of crustaceans.
  • malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
  • marginal costing — a method of cost accounting and decision making used for internal reporting in which only marginal costs are charged to cost units and fixed costs are treated as a lump sum
  • marriage customs — the acts that are traditionally done in connection with a marriage
  • megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
  • microaggressions — Plural form of microaggression.
  • microlinguistics — the branch of linguistics that is concerned with the study of languages in the abstract, and that looks at specific linguistic data without consideration of meaning
  • microphotographs — Plural form of microphotograph.
  • migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • misogynistically — In a misogynistic manner.
  • morning sickness — nausea occurring in the early part of the day, especially as a characteristic symptom in the first months of pregnancy.
  • mortgagee clause — a clause attached to a fire-insurance policy for protecting a mortgagee against loss or damage.
  • mos technologies — MOS Technology
  • moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
  • mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • nanotechnologies — Plural form of nanotechnology.
  • nanotechnologist — Someone who does research into nanotechnology; someone studying things on the scale of nanometers.
  • narcotics charge — a criminal charge or accusation concerning the use or dealing of illegal drugs
  • neurolinguistics — the study of the neurological processes underlying the development and use of language.
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