8-letter words containing g, e, o
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- megapode — any of several large-footed, short-winged gallinaceous Australasian birds of the family Megapodiidae, typically building a compostlike mound of decaying vegetation as an incubator for their eggs.
- megatons — Plural form of megaton.
- megavolt — a unit of electromotive force, equal to one million volts. Abbreviation: MV.
- megillot — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- menology — a calendar of the months.
- merogony — the development of an embryo from egg fragments lacking the egg nucleus but having an introduced male nucleus.
- mesoglea — the noncellular, gelatinous material between the inner and outer body walls of a coelenterate or sponge.
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- mignonne — small and delicate.
- milelong — extending for a mile: a milelong beach.
- mimeoing — Present participle of mimeo.
- misbegot — Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin.
- mislodge — to lodge or accommodate wrongly
- misogyne — (rare) A misogynist.
- mitogens — Plural form of mitogen.
- modeling — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
- moneybag — a bag for money.
- mongered — Simple past tense and past participle of monger.
- mongoose — a slender, ferretlike carnivore, Herpestes edwardsi, of India, that feeds on rodents, birds, and eggs, noted especially for its ability to kill cobras and other venomous snakes.
- mongrels — Plural form of mongrel.
- monogeny — the hypothetical descent of the human race from a single pair of individuals.
- monogerm — having or coming from a seed that will only develop into a single plant
- montaged — Simple past tense and past participle of montage.
- montages — Plural form of montage.
- montague — (in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) the family name of Romeo. Compare Capulet.
- moorages — Plural form of moorage.
- mornynge — Obsolete spelling of morning.
- mortgage — the rights conferred by it, or the state of the property conveyed.
- moseying — Present participle of mosey.
- muskegon — a port in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- muskogee — a city in E Oklahoma.
- myogenic — originating in muscle, as an impulse or sensation.
- negation — the act of denying: He shook his head in negation of the charge.
- negators — Plural form of negator.
- negatory — marked by negation; denying; negative.
- negatron — Also called negatron. Physics, Chemistry. an elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of matter, having a negative charge of 1.602 × 10 −19 coulombs, a mass of 9.108 × 10 −31 kilograms, and spin of ½, and existing independently or as the component outside the nucleus of an atom.
- negrillo — a member of any of various small-statured, indigenous peoples of Africa, as a Pygmy.
- negroism — the doctrine or advocacy of equal rights for black people.
- negroize — to cause to include black people or to have the qualities or characteristics of black people: efforts to Negroize the team.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- neogaean — a biogeographical division comprising the Neotropical region.
- neologic — neologism.
- neopagan — Alternative spelling of neo-pagan.
- netlingo — (computing) An on-line dictionary of more than 3000 terms, started in 1995 and updated monthly. NetLingo contains simple explanations and comprehensive coverage, including chat acronyms and smilies. It is also available in dead tree form.
- nitrogen — a colorless, odorless, gaseous element that constitutes about four-fifths of the volume of the atmosphere and is present in combined form in animal and vegetable tissues, especially in proteins: used chiefly in the manufacture of ammonia, nitric acid, cyanide, explosives, fertilizer, dyes, as a cooling agent, etc. Symbol: N; atomic weight: 14.0067; atomic number: 7; density: 1.2506 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- nomogeny — a law or belief that life originated from a natural process instead of a miraculous process
- nonbeing — the fact of existing; existence (as opposed to nonexistence).
- nonglare — (of a colour, paint, or surface) dull rather than shiny
- nongreen — not green, or lacking chlorophyll