7-letter words containing l, o, n, g
- foaling — a young horse, mule, or related animal, especially one that is not yet one year of age.
- foiling — Present participle of foil.
- folding — to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
- fooling — a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
- fopling — a vain, affected person
- forlong — To be possessed with longing.
- fouling — something that is foul.
- fowling — the practice or sport of shooting or snaring birds.
- furlong — a unit of distance, equal to 220 yards (201 meters) or ⅛ mile (0.2 km). Abbreviation: fur.
- galleon — a large sailing vessel of the 15th to the 17th centuries used as a fighting or merchant ship, square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and generally lateen-rigged on one or two after masts.
- gallons — Plural form of gallon.
- galloon — a braid or trimming of worsted, silk or rayon tinsel, gold or silver, etc., usually having scalloping along both edges.
- galopin — an errand-boy, especially one who works for a cook
- gaoling — Present participle of gaol.
- geelong — a seaport in SE Australia, SW of Melbourne.
- genlock — a method of synchronizing cameras by using an external signal
- gillion — (rare) A thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British 'milliard' and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US 'billion'.
- gladdon — Alt form gladen in the sense of sword grass.
- gleason — Jackie (Herbert John Gleason"The Great One") 1916–87, U.S. comedian and actor.
- glencoe — a glen in W Scotland, in S Highland: site of a massacre of MacDonalds by Campbells and English troops (1692)
- glenoid — shallow or slightly cupped, as the articular cavities of the scapula and the temporal bone.
- globing — Present participle of globe.
- glonoin — nitroglycerin
- gloving — Present participle of glove.
- glowing — incandescent.
- glozing — Present participle of gloze.
- gluonic — (physics) Of, pertaining to, or mediated by gluons.
- glutony — Misspelling of gluttony.
- glutton — the wolverine, Gulo gulo, of Europe.
- glycone — (carbohydrate) The sugar residue of a glycoside.
- gnuplot — (tool) A command-driven interactive graphing program. Gnuplot can plot two-dimensional functions and data points in many different styles (points, lines, error bars); and three-dimensional data points and surfaces in many different styles (contour plot, mesh). It supports complex arithmetic and user-defined functions and can label title, axes, and data points. It can output to several different graphics file formats and devices. Command line editing and history are supported and there is extensive on-line help. Gnuplot is copyrighted, but freely distributable. It was written by Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley, Russell Lang, Dave Kotz, John Campbell, Gershon Elber, Alexander Woo and many others. Despite its name, gnuplot is not related to the GNU project or the FSF in any but the most peripheral sense. It was designed completely independently and is not covered by the General Public License. However, the FSF has decided to distribute gnuplot as part of the GNU system, because it is useful, redistributable software. Gnuplot is available for: Unix (X11 and NEXTSTEP), VAX/VMS, OS/2, MS-DOS, Amiga, MS-Windows, OS-9/68k, Atari ST and Macintosh. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- go long — If an investor goes long on a stock, they bet that it will go up in price by purchasing it now and selling it later.
- gobelin — made at the tapestry factory established in Paris in the 15th century by the Gobelins, a French family of dyers and weavers.
- goblins — a grotesque sprite or elf that is mischievous or malicious toward people.
- godling — a minor god, especially one whose influence or authority is entirely local.
- goldang — Goddamned.
- goldarn — goddamn (used as a euphemism in expressions of anger, disgust, surprise, etc.).
- golding — Louis, 1895–1958, English novelist and essayist.
- goldman — Edwin Franko [frang-koh] /ˈfræŋ koʊ/ (Show IPA), 1878–1956, U.S. composer and bandmaster.
- goldoni — Carlo [kahr-loh;; Italian kahr-law] /ˈkɑr loʊ;; Italian ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1707–93, Italian dramatist.
- goldurn — goldarn.
- goldwyn — Samuel (Samuel Goldfish) 1882–1974, U.S. movie producer, born in Poland.
- golfing — a game in which clubs with wooden or metal heads are used to hit a small, white ball into a number of holes, usually 9 or 18, in succession, situated at various distances over a course having natural or artificial obstacles, the object being to get the ball into each hole in as few strokes as possible.
- gonadal — a sex gland in which gametes are produced; an ovary or testis.
- gondola — a long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat having a tall, ornamental stem and stern and sometimes a small cabin for passengers, rowed or poled by a single person who stands at the stern, facing forward: used especially on the canals of Venice, Italy.
- goneril — (in Shakespeare's King Lear) the elder of Lear's two faithless daughters.
- gosling — a young goose.
- gosplan — the official planning organization, which drew up projects embracing trade and industry, agriculture, education, and public health.
- gotland — an island in the Baltic, forming a province of Sweden. 1212 sq. mi. (3140 sq. km). Capital: Visby.
- goulden — Obsolete form of golden.