15-letter words containing l, g, u, c
- haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- iceberg lettuce — a variety of lettuce having a cabbagelike head of crisp leaves.
- immunologically — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
- insuring clause — the clause in an insurance policy setting forth the kind and degree of coverage granted by the insurer.
- language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
- leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
- leakage current — A leakage current is an electric current in an unwanted conductive path under normal operating conditions.
- leakage-current — an act of leaking; leak.
- legal successor — a person or thing that legally follows, esp a person who succeeds another in an office
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- lignocellulosic — (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.
- linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
- lucrezia borgia — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.
- luggage carrier — car accessory
- lump uncurrying — Chin's generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples.
- lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
- magna cum laude — with great praise: used in diplomas to grant the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
- magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
- magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
- metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
- metallurgically — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- microhomologous — (genetics) Exhibiting microhomology.
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
- motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
- multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
- musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
- neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurolinguistic — pertaining to neurolinguistics
- neuropathologic — Of or pertaining to neuropathology.
- neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
- neurotoxicology — the science that deals with the effects of poisons on the nervous system.
- nonagricultural — not applied to or generally practicing agriculture: a nonagricultural nation.
- nonmucilaginous — Not mucilaginous.
- nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
- object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
- occulting light — a beacon having a light covered briefly at regular intervals.
- office building — building containing offices
- oligonucleotide — a chain of a few nucleotides.
- optical pumping — a method for increasing the number of atoms or molecules occupying higher energy levels by irradiating them with light of the proper frequencies to raise them to those levels.
- 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
- organomercurial — an organic compound containing mercury
- paralinguistics — the study of paralanguage.