9-letter words containing g, i, l, o
- night owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- night-owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- nightglow — a dim light from the upper atmosphere caused by emissions from atoms and molecules ionized by solar radiation: observed at night (nightglow) during the day (dayglow) and at twilight (twilight glow) with each having slightly different characteristics.
- nightlong — lasting all night: a nightlong snowfall.
- nightsoil — Alternative spelling of night soil.
- noddingly — by way of nodding, usually slightly
- nonflying — Not flying; traveling by means other than flight.
- nonliving — having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
- nonloving — not loving, devoid of or unable to love
- nonruling — Not ruling; not in power.
- nosologic — Pertaining to nosology or the classification of diseases.
- nostalgia — a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days.
- nostalgic — experiencing or exhibiting nostalgia, a sentimental or wistful yearning for the happiness felt in a former place, time, or situation.
- obbligato — (used as a musical direction) obligatory or indispensable; so important that it cannot be omitted.
- obeyingly — (rare) obediently.
- obligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- obligatee — (government) A person who is obligated by law to do something.
- obligates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obligate.
- obligator — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- occluding — Present participle of occlude.
- octupling — Present participle of octuple.
- odelsting — the parliament of Norway, elected by popular vote, which is divided into the upper house (Lagting) comprising one quarter of the members, and the lower house (Odelsting) comprising the rest.
- off-glide — a transitional sound produced as the vocal organs move from a previous speech sound to an inactive position or to the position of a following sound. Compare on-glide.
- ogreishly — in the manner of an ogre
- oil gauge — a device which indicates whether levels of lubricant in a vehicle or machine are high or low
- oil gland — uropygial gland.
- oligaemia — a reduction in the volume of the blood, as occurs after haemorrhage
- oligarchs — Plural form of oligarch.
- oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
- oligocene — noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, occurring from 40 to 25 million years ago.
- oligogene — a gene that produces or significantly affects the expression of a qualitative heritable characteristic, acting either alone or with a few other genes.
- oligomers — Plural form of oligomer.
- oligopoly — the market condition that exists when there are few sellers, as a result of which they can greatly influence price and other market factors. Compare duopoly, monopoly (def 1).
- olinguito — a small omnivorous South American procyonid mammal, Bassaricyon neblina, inhabiting the mountain forests of Colombia and Ecuador: the most recent mammal to be discovered and the smallest member of family Procyonidae (the raccoons)
- oncologic — the branch of medical science dealing with tumors, including the origin, development, diagnosis, and treatment of malignant neoplasms.
- onlooking — looking on; observing; perceiving.
- ontologic — of or relating to ontology, the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such; metaphysical: Some of the U.S. founders held an ontological belief in natural rights.
- opalizing — Present participle of opalize.
- ophiology — the branch of herpetology dealing with snakes.
- originals — Plural form of original.
- ostealgia — (pathology) bone pain.
- otologies — Plural form of otology.
- otologist — A doctor specializing in otology. (from 19th c.).
- oughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- outflying — Present participle of outfly.
- outlawing — Present participle of outlaw.
- outlaying — an expending or spending, as of money.
- outlining — the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- outliving — Present participle of outlive.
- ovalizing — Present participle of ovalize.