14-letter words containing u, l, o, c
- 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.
- gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
- gulf of mexico — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
- hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
- happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
- hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
- hemicelluloses — Plural form of hemicellulose.
- 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 communion — communion (def 1).
- 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.
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- 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
- immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
- immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
- in circulation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
- inarticulation — (uncountable) The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness.
- inauspiciously — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
- inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
- incommodiously — In an incommodious manner.
- incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
- incommunicably — In an incommunicable manner or fashion.
- inconclusively — In an inconclusive manner.
- inconsequently — In an inconsequential way, or a way that suggests a lack of consequence.
- incontiguously — in an incontiguous or unconnected fashion; discretely
- induction coil — a transformer for producing high-voltage alternating current from a low-voltage direct current, consisting essentially of two concentric coils with a common soft-iron core, a primary coil with relatively few windings of heavy wire, and a secondary coil with many turns of fine wire. Excitation of the primary coil by rapidly interrupted or variable current induces high voltage in the secondary coil.
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- 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.