9-letter words containing g, e, l, o
- longerons — Plural form of longeron.
- longevity — a long individual life; great duration of individual life: Our family is known for its longevity.
- longevous — long-lived; living to a great age.
- 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.
- longitude — Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- longliner — a commercial fishing vessel that uses a longline.
- longlines — Plural form of longline.
- longshore — existing, found, or employed along the shore, especially at or near a seaport: longshore jobs; longshore current.
- longtimer — One who has been a resident, member, etc. for a long time.
- longueuil — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- longueurs — Plural form of longueur.
- loosening — Present participle of loosen.
- lorgnette — a pair of eyeglasses mounted on a handle.
- losingest — losing more than average; less successful than average.
- loudening — Present participle of louden.
- love game — a game in which one's opponent fails to win a point.
- love song — song expressing romantic feelings
- lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- lovelight — A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.
- lovingest — extremely loving and affectionate.
- low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
- lower leg — the lower part of your leg between your ankle and your knee
- lug-soled — (of a shoe, boot, etc.) having lugs on the sole, as to provide secure footing on rugged terrain.
- lysogenic — harboring a temperate virus as a prophage or plasmid.
- magalogue — a combination of a magazine and a catalogue
- mangalore — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- mangonels — Plural form of mangonel.
- megacolon — (uncountable) Abnormal dilatation of the colon, not caused by mechanical obstruction.
- megaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megaflora — plants large enough to be seen by the naked eye
- megajoule — a unit of work or energy, equal to one million joules.
- megalodon — Any of a group of extinct sharks from the Oligocene to Pleistocene epochs.
- megalopia — macropsia.
- megalopic — having large eyes
- megapolis — megalopolis.
- megavolts — Plural form of megavolt.
- megestrol — A steroidal progestin.
- 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.
- mellowing — soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
- melongene — eggplant (def 1).
- melungeon — a member of a people of mixed white, black, and American Indian ancestry living in the southern Appalachians.
- mereology — the formal study of the logical properties of the relation of part and whole
- mesogleal — relating to the mesoglea
- mesogloea — the noncellular, gelatinous material between the inner and outer body walls of a coelenterate or sponge.
- metalogic — the logical analysis of the fundamental concepts of logic.
- metrology — the science of weights and measures.
- mirligoes — dizziness
- modelling — model
- moldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- molesting — Present participle of molest.