8-letter words containing g, l, o, r, i
- leg iron — a shackle for a prisoner's leg
- leggiero — Misspelling of leggero.
- ligroine — a flammable mixture of hydrocarbons that boils at from 20°C to 135°C, obtained from petroleum by distillation and used as a solvent.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- log fire — a fire on which logs are burned
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- lordling — a minor, unimportant, or petty lord.
- louvring — to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
- lowering — comparative of low1 .
- marigold — any of several chiefly golden-flowered composite plants, especially of the genus Tagetes, as T. erecta, having strong-scented foliage and yielding an oil that repels root parasites.
- microlog — (architecture) A section of non-volitile memory used to record state information. Often used for retaining crash information after a reboot in embedded systems.
- mortling — wool obtained from dead sheep.
- negrillo — a member of any of various small-statured, indigenous peoples of Africa, as a Pygmy.
- obligors — Plural form of obligor.
- old girl — Chiefly British. a former student at a girl's school, especially a preparatory school.
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- oligomer — a polymer molecule consisting of a small number of monomers.
- oliguria — scantiness of urine due to diminished secretion.
- oliguric — of or relating to oliguria
- oracling — Present participle of oracle.
- original — belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
- overgild — to cover with gilding.
- porkling — a young pig; piglet
- prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- prowling — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
- regional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
- regolith — mantle rock.
- religio- — religion, religious, religion and
- religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- ringbolt — a bolt with a ring fitted in an eye at its head.
- rockling — any of several small cods of the genera Enchalyopus and Gaidropsarus, found in the North Atlantic.
- roebling — John Augustus, 1806–69, U.S. engineer, born in Germany: pioneer of wire-rope suspension bridges, designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
- rovingly — in a roving manner
- roweling — a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
- seraglio — the part of a Muslim house or palace in which the wives and concubines are secluded; harem.
- shopgirl — a salesgirl; female store clerk.
- showgirl — a woman who appears in the chorus of a show, nightclub act, etc.
- trigonal — of, relating to, or shaped like a triangle; having three angles; triangular.
- trolling — to sing or utter in a full, rolling voice.
- turingol — (language) A high-level language for programming Turing Machines by Donald Knuth. It was the subject of the first construction of a nontrivial attribute grammar.
- virology — the science dealing with the study of viruses and the diseases caused by them.
- workgirl — a young female manual worker
- yoldring — a yellowhammer.