9-letter words containing l, g, u
- inaugural — of or relating to an inauguration: Harding's inaugural address.
- including — to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
- indulgent — characterized by or showing indulgence; benignly lenient or permissive: an indulgent parent.
- indulging — to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
- ingluvial — of or relating to an ingluvies
- ingluvies — a dilation or pouch in the oesophagus of certain animals that receives food prior to the main stomach, esp a bird's craw, or the first stomach of a cow or other ruminating animal
- insulting — giving or causing insult; characterized by affronting rudeness, insolence, etc.
- iron lung — a chamberlike respirator, formerly used in the treatment of poliomyelitis, that encloses the whole body except the head and in which alternate pulsations of high and low pressure induce normal breathing movements or force air into and out of the lungs.
- irregular — without symmetry, even shape, formal arrangement, etc.: an irregular pattern.
- isologous — (of two or more organic compounds) chemically related but differing in composition other than by n CH 2 .
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- jelutongs — Plural form of jelutong.
- jongleurs — Plural form of jongleur.
- judgeable — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judgeless — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judgelike — Resembling a judge or some aspect of one.
- judgingly — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- junglegym — climbing frame for children
- junglists — Plural form of junglist.
- juttingly — in a protruding or jutting manner
- kali yuga — the fourth and present age of the world, full of conflict and sin.
- kerguelen — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
- kien lung — Ch'ien Lung.
- kilogauss — a unit of magnetic induction, equal to 1000 gauss. Abbreviation: kG.
- knuckling — Present participle of knuckle.
- kugelhopf — a sweetened bread, flavored with raisins and almonds, baked in a ring-shaped mold, and usually dusted with powdered sugar before serving.
- l-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- la guaira — a seaport in N Venezuela: the port of Caracas.
- la laguna — city in Tenerife, Canary Islands: pop. 128,000
- labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
- langouste — spiny lobster.
- langrenus — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 85 miles (135 km) in diameter.
- languaged — Having a specified type or number of languages.
- languages — Plural form of language.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- languette — a thin plate fastened to the mouth of certain organ pipes.
- languidly — lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow: a languid manner.
- larruping — very; exceedingly: That was a larruping good meal.
- lauenburg — a region in Schleswig-Holstein, in NW Germany: duchy under German rulers 1260–1689; later part of Prussia.
- laugh off — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- laughable — such as to cause laughter; funny; amusing; ludicrous.
- laughably — In a manner that can be laughed at, humorous, in a laughable manner.
- 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.
- launching — Present participle of launch.
- lautering — The step or process in brewing beer which separates the mash into clear liquid wort and grain.
- leaguered — to besiege.
- lecturing — Present participle of lecture.
- lee gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.