9-letter words containing g, e, h, l
- lengthier — having or being of great length; very long: a lengthy journey.
- lengthily — having or being of great length; very long: a lengthy journey.
- lengthman — a person whose job it is to maintain a particular length of road or railway line
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lexiphage — (graphics) /lek'si-fayj"/ A notorious word chomper, implemented and named by John Doty in late 1972 on and HP calculator and later on ITS. The lexiphage program would draw on a selected victim's bitmapped terminal the words "THE BAG" in ornate letters, followed a pair of jaws biting pieces of it off.
- lich gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard under which a bier is set down during a burial service to await the coming of the clergyman.
- light ale — a type of beer that is light in colour and low in alcohol content
- light pen — a handheld light-sensitive device used for pointing at characters or objects on a CRT in order to make or modify drawings or to indicate functions to be performed.
- lightened — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.
- lightener — That which lightens.
- lightered — Simple past tense and past participle of lighter.
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- lightless — without light or lights; receiving no light; dark.
- lightlike — (mathematics) (of a four-vector) having a space component whose magnitude is equal to its time component multiplied by the speed of light.
- lightness — the state or quality of being light or illuminated.
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- lightwell — (architecture) An open shaft that transmits light from above into a staircase or an inner room.
- lightyear — Alternative spelling of light year.
- limelight — Theater. (formerly) a lighting unit for spotlighting the front of the stage, producing illumination by means of a flame of mixed gases directed at a cylinder of lime and having a special lens for concentrating the light in a strong beam. the light so produced. Chiefly British. a lighting unit, especially a spotlight.
- lindbergh — Anne (Spencer) Morrow, 1906–2001, U.S. writer (wife of Charles Augustus Lindbergh).
- lingereth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of linger.
- live high — to live in luxury
- logophile — a lover of words.
- logorrhea — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- logothete — (in the Byzantine Empire and later in Sicily) a chancellor
- lohengrin — the son of Parzival, and a knight of the Holy Grail.
- longhouse — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- longshore — existing, found, or employed along the shore, especially at or near a seaport: longshore jobs; longshore current.
- lovelight — A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- mag wheel — a wheel containing magnesium or aluminum generally alloyed with steel, which makes it lighter in weight and shinier than an ordinary steel wheel: used especially on racing cars and sports cars.
- megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- meghalaya — a state in NE India. 8660 sq. mi. (22,429 sq. km). Capital: Shillong.
- megillahs — Plural form of megillah.
- megilloth — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- metheglin — a variety of spiced mead.
- mightless — (obsolete) Lacking in might; weak.
- moygashel — an Irish linen
- narghiles — Plural form of narghile.
- narguileh — hookah
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- nephology — The study or contemplation of clouds.
- nightless — the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
- nightlife — the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion, as at a nightclub, theater, or the like.
- nightlike — Resembling night or some aspect of it; dark, tenebrous.
- ogreishly — in the manner of an ogre
- oleograph — a chromolithograph printed in oil colors on canvas or cloth.