8-letter words containing l, o, g, y
- levogyre — an anticlockwise spiral
- liaoyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a city in central Liaoning province, in NE China.
- lobbygow — an errand boy, as formerly in the Chinatown section of a city.
- lobbying — an entrance hall, corridor, or vestibule, as in a public building, often serving as an anteroom; foyer.
- logology — (obsolete) Scientific study of words.
- logotype — Also called logo. a single piece of type bearing two or more uncombined letters, a syllable, or a word.
- lollygag — lallygag.
- long-day — requiring a long photoperiod in order to flower.
- longways — longwise.
- losingly — in a losing manner
- lovingly — feeling or showing love; warmly affectionate; fond: loving glances.
- lygodium — (botany) Any of the genus Lygodium of climbing ferns.
- lysogens — Plural form of lysogen.
- lysogeny — the state of being lysogenic.
- mazology — (obsolete) mammalogy.
- menology — a calendar of the months.
- misology — distrust or hatred of reason or reasoning.
- mixology — the art or skill of preparing mixed drinks.
- monology — the act or habit of soliloquizing.
- mopingly — in a moping or dejected manner
- morology — Foolish talk; nonsense.
- movingly — capable of or having movement: a moving object.
- mycology — the branch of biology dealing with fungi.
- myologic — (medicine) Of or pertaining to the study of muscles or muscle tissue.
- nasology — the scientific study of noses.
- nomology — the science of law or laws.
- nosology — the systematic classification of diseases.
- nostalgy — nostalgia.
- oblongly — In an oblong orientation.
- octalogy — (rare) # A set of eight works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as eight individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- oecology — the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
- oenology — the science of viniculture.
- old fogy — a person who is excessively old-fashioned in attitude, ideas, manners, etc.
- oncology — the branch of medical science dealing with tumors, including the origin, development, diagnosis, and treatment of malignant neoplasms.
- ontology — the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such.
- optology — the science of testing eyes for lenses
- outlying — lying at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way: outlying military posts.
- palilogy — the technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.
- paralogy — false reasoning
- pedology — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pelology — the study of the therapeutic uses of mud
- penology — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- play god — make life-and-death decisions
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- podology — the study of the feet
- pollywog — a tadpole.
- poly bag — a polythene bag, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- polydrug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- polygala — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
- polygamy — the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, especially wife, at one time. Compare bigamy (def 1), monogamy (def 1).