9-letter words containing g, e, t, o
- hotelling — (in office management) a practice in which desk space must be booked in advance by an employee as required
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- hyetology — the branch of meteorology dealing with precipitation.
- iatrogeny — a disease caused by medical intervention or treatment
- ice tongs — a small pair of tongs for serving ice cubes.
- ingestion — to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- integrous — (rare) Having or characterized by integrity.
- intergrow — to grow among each other
- iron gate — a gorge cut by the Danube through the Carpathian Mountains, between Yugoslavia and SW Romania. 2 miles (3.2 km) long.
- isogamete — one of a pair of conjugating gametes, exhibiting no differences in form, size, structure, or sex.
- jelutongs — Plural form of jelutong.
- jockteleg — a large clasp knife or pocketknife; jackknife.
- jottering — Misspelling of jotting.
- ketogenic — the production of ketone bodies in the body, as in diabetes mellitus or low-carbohydrate weight-loss diets.
- keynoting — Present participle of keynote.
- lager top — a pint or half-pint of lager with a dash of lemonade
- langouste — spiny lobster.
- larghetto — a larghetto movement.
- legations — Plural form of legation.
- let it go — If someone says or does something that you think is annoying or stupid and you let it go, you do not react to it or say anything about it.
- let sb go — If you let someone or something go, you allow them to leave or escape.
- lexington — a town in E Massachusetts, NW of Boston: first battle of American Revolution fought here April 19, 1775.
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.
- lock gate — one of the two gates of a lock
- lodgement — the act of lodging.
- lodgments — Plural form of lodgment.
- logothete — (in the Byzantine Empire and later in Sicily) a chancellor
- logotypes — Plural form of logotype.
- loitering — to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
- long-term — covering a relatively long period of time: a long-term lease.
- long-time — You use long-time to describe something that has existed or been a particular thing for a long time.
- longevity — a long individual life; great duration of individual life: Our family is known for its longevity.
- 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.
- longtimer — One who has been a resident, member, etc. for a long time.
- lorgnette — a pair of eyeglasses mounted on a handle.
- losingest — losing more than average; less successful than average.
- lovelight — A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.
- lovingest — extremely loving and affectionate.
- magnetron — a two-element vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons is under the influence of an external magnetic field, used to generate extremely short radio waves.
- mangetout — A vegetable pea eaten when immature.
- matronage — the state of being a matron.
- megamouth — The megamouth shark.
- megastore — A very large store, typically one specializing in a particular type of product.
- megastorm — a very powerful storm that causes catastrophic damage
- megatonic — one million tons.
- 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.
- mentoring — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- metagnomy — (rare) divination.