10-letter words containing l, o, n, g
- as long as — If you say that something is the case as long as or so long as something else is the case, you mean that it is only the case if the second thing is the case.
- avgolemono — a Greek soup made with eggs, lemon juice, and rice
- ballooning — Ballooning is the sport or activity of flying a hot-air balloon.
- balneology — the branch of medical science concerned with the therapeutic value of baths, esp those taken with natural mineral waters
- batfowling — A method of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost so that the birds fly towards the light.
- beclouding — Present participle of becloud.
- becomingly — that suits or gives a pleasing effect or attractive appearance, as to a person or thing: a becoming dress; a becoming hairdo.
- bedlington — Also called Bedlingtonshire [bed-ling-tuh n-sheer, -sher] /ˈbɛd lɪŋ tənˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). an urban area in E Northumberland, in N England.
- belongings — Your belongings are the things that you own, especially things that are small enough to be carried.
- bibliogony — the art of producing and publishing books.
- bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
- biofouling — the degradation of an artificial surface by biological growth
- blazonings — heraldic adornments
- blowing up — a reprimand
- bludgeoned — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
- bnr prolog — A constraint logic language.
- bogon flux — /boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". See quantum bogodynamics.
- bollocking — a severe telling-off; dressing-down
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration
- boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- broodingly — preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts: a brooding frame of mind.
- brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
- brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- bump along — advance unevenly
- bunglesome — characterized by bungling
- burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
- buzz along — a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
- cajolingly — In a cajoling manner.
- caliginous — dark; dim
- camerlengo — a cardinal who acts as the pope's financial secretary and the papal treasurer
- canoodling — Present participle of canoodle.
- caprioling — Present participle of capriole.
- carmagnole — a dance and song popular during the French Revolution
- carpooling — Present participle of carpool.
- cataloging — Make a systematic list of (items of the same type).
- chilognath — any member of the diplopod subclass Chilognatha, including millipedes having exoskeletons heavily sclerotized with calcium carbonate.
- chronology — The chronology of a series of past events is the times at which they happened in the order in which they happened.
- clamouring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clangorous — a loud, resonant sound; clang.
- clingstone — a fruit, such as certain peaches, in which the flesh tends to adhere to the stone
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
- clobbering — Present participle of clobber.