16-letter words that end in l
- circumlocutional — Of or relating to circumlocution : circumlocutionary.
- civil air patrol — a voluntary organization performing emergency services, as assisting the U.S. Air Force on search missions, and offering aerospace-education and youth programs: founded 1941. Abbreviation: CAP.
- classical school — an economic theory based on the works of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, which explains the creation of wealth and advocates free trade
- cog in the wheel — small part of a large system
- coherent control — the use of nonrandom radiation, especially a laser beam, to change an atomic, electronic, or molecular system's behavior.
- common spoonbill — a wading bird of warm regions, Platalea leucorodia, having a long horizontally flattened bill: family Threskiornithidae, order Ciconiiformes
- community school — a school offering some nonacademic activities related to life in a particular community and often serving as a community centre
- companion animal — an animal kept as a pet
- composite school — a secondary school offering both academic and nonacademic courses
- compute parallel — (language) (Compel) The first single-assignment language.
- confidence level — a measure of the reliability of a result. A confidence level of 95 per cent or 0.95 means that there is a probability of at least 95 per cent that the result is reliable
- contour interval — the difference in altitude represented by the space between two contour lines on a map
- copyright symbol — (character, legal) "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
- coroutine pascal — ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977].
- cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
- crime passionnel — a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion
- cross-cut chisel — a chisel used for making grooves
- cryptozoological — (cryptozoology) Of or pertaining to cryptozoology.
- cultural-capital — Sociology. the skills, education, norms, and behaviors acquired by members of a social group that can give them economic and other advantages: The accumulation of cultural capital is one route to upward mobility.
- cytotoxic t cell — a killer T cell
- departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
- destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
- deuterocanonical — of or constituting a second or subsequent canon; specif., designating certain Biblical books accepted as canonical in the Roman Catholic Church, but held by Protestants to be apocryphal
- development well — (in the oil industry) a well drilled for the production of oil or gas from a field already proven by appraisal drilling to be suitable for exploitation
- dichlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing two chlorine atoms.
- diethyl carbinol — a colorless, liquid isomer of amyl alcohol, (CH3CH2)2CHOH, used in drugs and as a solvent
- dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
- director general — the executive head of an organization or of a major subdivision, as a branch or agency, of government.
- director-general — the executive head of an organization or of a major subdivision, as a branch or agency, of government.
- display terminal — Visual Display Unit
- district council — the local ruling body of an urban or rural district.
- distrito federal — Federal District. Abbreviation: D.F.
- down at the heel — with the heels of one's shoes in need of repair
- drainage channel — a channel along which drained water flows away
- drop a bombshell — If someone drops a bombshell, they give you a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
- dyed-in-the-wool — through and through; complete: a dyed-in-the-wool reformer.
- ecotoxicological — Of or pertaining to ecotoxicology.
- elected official — person voted into office
- entrenching tool — a small, collapsible spade used by a soldier in the field for digging foxholes and the like.
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- european council — an executive body of the European Union, made up of the President of the European Commission and representatives of the member states, including the foreign and other ministers. The Council acts at the request of the Commission
- expert appraisal — a valuation of property or goods by an expert
- exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
- extensible shell — (operating system) (es) A Unix shell written by Byron Rakitzis <[email protected]> and Paul Haahr <[email protected]>, derived from rc. Es has real functions, closures, exceptions and lets you redefine most internal shell operations. Version: 0.84.
- extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
- extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
- extraterrestrial — Of or from outside the earth or its atmosphere.
- extraterritorial — (of a law or decree) valid outside a country's territory.
- eyjafjallajökull — a cone-shaped ice cap in south Iceland that covers an active volcano. The volcano’s eruption in 2010 resulted in large high-altitude clouds of volcanic ash that caused major disruption to European passenger air traffic. Height: 1666 m (5466 ft)
- fancy dress ball — a ball at which the guests wear fancy dress