8-letter words containing l, o, g, r
- leg-work — work or research involving extensive walking or traveling about, usually away from one's office, as in gathering data for a book, a legal action, etc.
- leggiero — Misspelling of leggero.
- leghorns — Plural form of leghorn.
- levogyre — an anticlockwise spiral
- 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
- log reel — a reel from which the line of a log chip runs.
- log roll — to procure the passage of (a bill) by logrolling.
- logboard — a board used for logging a ship's records
- logogram — a conventional, abbreviated symbol for a frequently recurring word or phrase, as the symbol & for the word and. Also called logograph [law-guh-graf, -grahf, log-uh-] /ˈlɔ gəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf, ˈlɒg ə-/ (Show IPA).
- logperch — a darter, Percina caprodes, of eastern North American lakes and streams, having a piglike snout.
- logrolls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of logroll.
- long arm — a long pole fitted with any of various devices, as a hook or clamp, for performing tasks otherwise out of reach.
- long run — happening or presented over a long period of time or having a long course of performances: a long-run hit play.
- long-run — happening or presented over a long period of time or having a long course of performances: a long-run hit play.
- longeron — a main longitudinal brace or support on an airplane.
- longford — a county in Leinster, in the N Republic of Ireland. 403 sq. mi. (1044 sq. km). County seat: Longford.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- longhorn — any of numerous, often brightly colored beetles of the family Cerambycidae, usually with long antennae, the larva of which bores into the wood of living or decaying trees.
- longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- longterm — covering a relatively long period of time: a long-term lease.
- longueur — a long and boring passage in a literary work, drama, musical composition, or the like: The longueurs in this book make it almost unreadable.
- longword — (computing) A type of unsigned integer variable that is longer than a word (specific number of bits depends upon architecture).
- lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis
- lordling — a minor, unimportant, or petty lord.
- loungers — Plural form of lounger.
- louvring — to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
- low gear — the arrangement of gears providing little speed but great torque
- lowering — comparative of low1 .
- lugworms — Plural form of lugworm.
- lungworm — any nematode worm of the superfamily Metastrongylidae, parasitic in the lungs of various mammals.
- lungwort — a European plant, Pulmonaria officinalis, of the borage family, having blue flowers.
- m-prolog — 1. Marseille Prolog. 2. An extension to Prolog involving modules.
- malgrado — in spite of
- 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.
- mongrels — Plural form of mongrel.
- morology — Foolish talk; nonsense.
- mortling — wool obtained from dead sheep.
- n-prolog — Prolog extended with explicit negation. Dov Gabbay <[email protected]>.
- negrillo — a member of any of various small-statured, indigenous peoples of Africa, as a Pygmy.
- nonglare — (of a colour, paint, or surface) dull rather than shiny
- 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