9-letter words containing h, e, g
- laughline — a wrinkle near the outer corner of the eye, as if left from smiling or laughing
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- lechering — a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- lengthens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lengthen.
- lengthful — long
- lengthier — having or being of great length; very long: a lengthy journey.
- lengthily — having or being of great length; very long: a lengthy journey.
- lengthman — a person whose job it is to maintain a particular length of road or railway line
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lexiphage — (graphics) /lek'si-fayj"/ A notorious word chomper, implemented and named by John Doty in late 1972 on and HP calculator and later on ITS. The lexiphage program would draw on a selected victim's bitmapped terminal the words "THE BAG" in ornate letters, followed a pair of jaws biting pieces of it off.
- lich gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard under which a bier is set down during a burial service to await the coming of the clergyman.
- light ale — a type of beer that is light in colour and low in alcohol content
- light pen — a handheld light-sensitive device used for pointing at characters or objects on a CRT in order to make or modify drawings or to indicate functions to be performed.
- lightened — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.
- lightener — That which lightens.
- lightered — Simple past tense and past participle of lighter.
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- lightless — without light or lights; receiving no light; dark.
- lightlike — (mathematics) (of a four-vector) having a space component whose magnitude is equal to its time component multiplied by the speed of light.
- lightness — the state or quality of being light or illuminated.
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- lightwell — (architecture) An open shaft that transmits light from above into a staircase or an inner room.
- lightyear — Alternative spelling of light year.
- limelight — Theater. (formerly) a lighting unit for spotlighting the front of the stage, producing illumination by means of a flame of mixed gases directed at a cylinder of lime and having a special lens for concentrating the light in a strong beam. the light so produced. Chiefly British. a lighting unit, especially a spotlight.
- lindbergh — Anne (Spencer) Morrow, 1906–2001, U.S. writer (wife of Charles Augustus Lindbergh).
- lingereth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of linger.
- live high — to live in luxury
- logophile — a lover of words.
- logorrhea — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- logothete — (in the Byzantine Empire and later in Sicily) a chancellor
- lohengrin — the son of Parzival, and a knight of the Holy Grail.
- longhouse — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- longshore — existing, found, or employed along the shore, especially at or near a seaport: longshore jobs; longshore current.
- lovelight — A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- mag wheel — a wheel containing magnesium or aluminum generally alloyed with steel, which makes it lighter in weight and shinier than an ordinary steel wheel: used especially on racing cars and sports cars.
- maghemite — a strongly magnetic dimorph of hematite.
- megachain — A very large and successful chain (group of stores or businesses).
- megadeath — a unit of one million deaths: used in estimating or predicting the fatalities that would occur in a nuclear war.
- megahertz — a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second. Abbreviation: MHz.
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
- megamouth — The megamouth shark.
- megaphone — a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distance. Compare bullhorn.
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- megathere — any of the huge, slothlike animals of the extinct genus Megatherium, or closely related genera, that lived from the Oligocene to the Pleistocene epochs.
- megatherm — a plant requiring a constant high temperature and abundant moisture for growth.