9-letter words containing l, o, g, u
- groundsel — groundsill.
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- guacamole — a dip of mashed avocado mixed with tomato, onion, and seasonings.
- guanazolo — a synthetic form of guanine that is used to inhibit the growth of tumours
- guarulhos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
- guildford — a city in S England, in Surrey: cathedral (1936–68); seat of the University of Surrey (1966). Pop: 69 400 (2001)
- guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
- guilloche — an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids.
- gulp down — food, drink: swallow quickly
- gun lobby — a group of people who argue for the right of members of the public to be able to own guns
- gunk hole — a quiet anchorage, as in a cove, used by small yachts.
- gütersloh — a town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 95 928 (2003 est)
- homologue — something homologous.
- hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
- hugeously — hugely
- huon gulf — a gulf of the Solomon Sea, on the E coast of New Guinea.
- idealogue — One given to fanciful ideas or theories, someone who theorizes.
- ideologue — a person who zealously advocates an ideology.
- 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.
- isologous — (of two or more organic compounds) chemically related but differing in composition other than by n CH 2 .
- jelutongs — Plural form of jelutong.
- jongleurs — Plural form of jongleur.
- kilogauss — a unit of magnetic induction, equal to 1000 gauss. Abbreviation: kG.
- 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.
- labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
- langouste — spiny lobster.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- 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.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- lie group — a topological group that is a manifold.
- light out — to get down or descend, as from a horse or a vehicle.
- liquoring — Present participle of liquor.
- litigious — of or relating to litigation.
- lobengula — ?1836–94, last Matabele king (1870–93); his kingdom was destroyed by the British
- long haul — journey: long-distance
- long jump — athletics: competition to jump the furthest
- long suit — Cards. the suit in which the most cards are held in a hand. (in bridge) a suit in which four or more cards are held in a hand.
- long-haul — line-haul.
- long-jump — Track and Field. to execute a long jump.
- longevous — long-lived; living to a great age.
- 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.
- longitude — Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- longspurs — Plural form of longspur.
- longueuil — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- longueurs — Plural form of longueur.
- loudening — Present participle of louden.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.