8-letter words containing l, o, g, i
- obligate — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- obligato — Alternative spelling of obbligato.
- obligees — Plural form of obligee.
- obliging — willing or eager to do favors, offer one's services, etc.; accommodating: The clerk was most obliging.
- obligors — Plural form of obligor.
- oiltight — constructed to be impervious to oil: an oiltight bulkhead.
- old girl — Chiefly British. a former student at a girl's school, especially a preparatory school.
- oldening — Present participle of olden.
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- oligemia — Alt form olig\u00e6mia.
- 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
- on-glide — a transitional sound produced by the vocal organs in moving from an inactive position or a previous sound to the articulatory position necessary for producing a following sound. Compare off-glide (def 1).
- oogonial — Of or pertaining to an oogonium.
- oologist — A person who studies or specializes in oology.
- 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.
- otologic — Synonym of otological.
- outfling — (intransitive) To fling outward.
- outlying — lying at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way: outlying military posts.
- overgild — to cover with gilding.
- palilogy — the technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.
- pangolin — any mammal of the order Pholidota, of Africa and tropical Asia, having a covering of broad, overlapping, horny scales and feeding on ants and termites.
- peopling — persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think?
- pignolia — a pine nut, the edible seed of the nut pine
- pignolis — pine nut (def 1).
- pilotage — the process of directing the movement of a ship or aircraft by visual or electronic observations of recognizable landmarks.
- piloting — a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- piloxing — a system of exercise combining elements of Pilates and boxing
- plodding — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
- plonking — foolish, clumsy, or inept
- plopping — to make a sound like that of something falling or dropping into water: A frog plopped into the pond.
- plotting — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- podalgia — pain in the foot.
- polglish — informal Polish containing a high proportion of words of English origin
- policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- polliwog — a tadpole.
- popeling — a deputy or supporter of the Pope
- porkling — a young pig; piglet
- posingly — in a posing manner
- prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- prowling — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
- qianlong — Ch'ien Lung.
- 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.