10-letter words containing a, g, o
- lager lout — a rowdy or aggressive young drunk male
- lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
- lagomorphs — Plural form of lagomorph.
- laloplegia — paralysis of the speech organs in which the tongue is not affected.
- lamingtons — Plural form of lamington.
- lampooning — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- landowning — an owner or proprietor of land.
- langostino — langoustine.
- langoustes — Plural form of langouste.
- languorous — characterized by languor; languid.
- lanuginose — covered with lanugo, or soft, downy hairs.
- lanuginous — covered with lanugo, or soft, downy hairs.
- lar gibbon — white-handed gibbon.
- largemouth — Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large mouth.
- laugh down — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- lazy tongs — extensible tongs for grasping objects at a distance, consisting of a series of pairs of crossing pieces, each pair pivoted together in the middle and connected with the next pair at the extremities.
- le-allegro — L'Allegro.
- leamington — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- legionaire — Misspelling of legionnaire.
- legionella — a genus of rod- or coccus-shaped aerobic Gram-negative bacteria, certain species of which, as L. pneumophila, produce legionnaires' disease.
- legislator — a person who gives or makes laws.
- lemongrass — A fragrant tropical grass that yields an oil that smells lemon. It is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumery and medicine.
- levigation — to rub, grind, or reduce to a fine powder, as in a mortar, with or without the addition of a liquid.
- levogyrate — levorotatory
- liaisoning — Present participle of liaison.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- lignocaine — lidocaine.
- like a log — without stirring or being disturbed (in the phrase sleep like a log)
- limacology — the study of slugs
- lipography — unintentional omission in writing, as of a specific letter or syllable.
- lithograph — a print produced by lithography.
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- litigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
- litigators — Plural form of litigator.
- llangollen — a town in NE Wales, in Denbighshire on the River Dee: International Musical Eisteddfod held annually since 1946. Pop: 2930 (2001)
- loaf sugar — a large conical mass of hard refined sugar; sugar loaf
- lobtailing — (of a whale) to slap the flukes against the surface of the water.
- local sign — the information from a receptor in the eye or the skin signifying respectively a direction in space or a given point on the body
- localising — Present participle of localise.
- localizing — Present participle of localize.
- loganberry — the large, dark-red, acid fruit of a plant, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus.
- logansport — a city in N Indiana, on the Wabash River.
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- loggerhead — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- logic gate — gate1 (def 16b).
- logicality — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- login-name — Also called login name, logon name, sign-in name, sign-on name. a unique sequence of characters used to identify a user and allow access to a computer system, computer network, or online account.
- logistical — of or relating to logistics.
- logjamming — the act of logs accumulating in a river and becoming jammed
- logographs — Plural form of logograph.