9-letter words containing g, o, r, i
- jargonish — jargonistic
- jargonist — a user of jargon
- jargonize — to talk jargon or a jargon.
- jottering — Misspelling of jotting.
- joyriding — The action or practice of driving fast and dangerously in a stolen car for enjoyment.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- kilograms — Plural form of kilogram.
- king horn — the earliest extant verse romance (late 13th century) in the English language.
- kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
- kissogram — A novelty greeting or message delivered by a man or woman who accompanies it with a kiss, arranged as a humorous surprise for the recipient.
- koshering — Present participle of kosher.
- labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
- largition — an act of, or the quality of, generosity or largesse
- legionary — of, relating to, or belonging to a legion.
- lie group — a topological group that is a manifold.
- ligniform — having the form of wood; resembling wood, as a variety of asbestos.
- liquoring — Present participle of liquor.
- litigator — a courtroom lawyer.
- logarithm — the exponent of the power to which a base number must be raised to equal a given number; log: 2 is the logarithm of 100 to the base 10 (2 = log10 100).
- logogriph — an anagram, or a puzzle involving anagrams.
- lohengrin — the son of Parzival, and a knight of the Holy Grail.
- loitering — to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
- long iron — a club, as a driving iron, midiron, or mid-mashie, with a long shaft and an iron head the face of which has little slope, for hitting long, low shots.
- longhairs — Plural form of longhair.
- longicorn — having long antennae.
- longliner — a commercial fishing vessel that uses a longline.
- longtimer — One who has been a resident, member, etc. for a long time.
- lordlings — Plural form of lordling.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- lowriding — the practice of traveling in a lowrider.
- macroglia — Any of various glial cells that are larger than microglia.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- marigolds — Plural form of marigold.
- mariology — the body of belief, doctrine, and opinion concerning the Virgin Mary.
- marooning — to put ashore and abandon on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment or the like, as was done by buccaneers.
- matagouri — a thorny bush of New Zealand, Discaria toumatou, that forms thickets in open country
- mentoring — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- microalga — Any of many microscopic photosynthetic protists, often living as single cells and floating as plankton.
- microblog — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
- microglia — Glial cells derived from mesoderm that function as macrophages (scavengers) in the central nervous system and form part of the reticuloendothelial system.
- microgram — micrograph (def 2).
- micrology — excessive attention to petty details or distinctions.
- midground — The point between foreground and background in an image.
- migration — the process or act of migrating.
- migratory — migrating.
- mirligoes — dizziness
- mirrnyong — (Australia, archaeology) A mound of cooking debris accumulated by Aborigines; a kitchen midden.
- mirroring — mirror
- misgovern — to govern or manage badly.
- misgrowth — an abnormal or distorted growth