9-letter words containing l, o, r, g
- necrology — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- neglector — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- neuroglia — a class of cells in the brain and spinal cord that form a supporting structure for the neurons and provide them with insulation.
- neurology — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- no longer — not anymore
- nongolfer — a person who is not a golfer
- nonruling — Not ruling; not in power.
- nu-prolog — L. Naish, U Melbourne. A Prolog with 'when' declarations, the successor to MU-Prolog. Type-checked. "NU-Prolog Reference Manual - Version 1.3", J.A. Thom et al eds, TR 86/10, U Melbourne (1988). Available (but not free). (See PNU-Prolog). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- obligator — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- ogreishly — in the manner of an ogre
- old glory — the national flag of the U.S., consisting of 13 horizontal stripes that are alternately red and white, representing the original states, and of a blue field containing 50 white stars, representing the present states.
- old guard — the imperial guard created in 1804 by Napoleon: it made the last French charge at Waterloo.
- oldenburg — Claes (Thure) [klous too r-uh] /klaʊs ˈtʊər ə/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. sculptor, born in Sweden.
- oleograph — a chromolithograph printed in oil colors on canvas or cloth.
- oligarchs — Plural form of oligarch.
- oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
- oligomers — Plural form of oligomer.
- organelle — Cell Biology. a specialized part of a cell having some specific function; a cell organ.
- organosol — a resin-based coating
- originals — Plural form of original.
- overglaze — a color or glaze applied to an existing glaze.
- overgloom — to make gloomy
- overlarge — of more than average size, quantity, degree, etc.; exceeding that which is common to a kind or class; big; great: a large house; a large number; in large measure; to a large extent.
- overlight — a strong light
- overlying — present participle of overlie.
- paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
- paralogia — incoherent speech or thinking
- paralogue — either of a pair of genes derived from the same ancestral gene
- patrology — Also called patristics. the branch of theology dealing with the teachings of the church fathers.
- pavlograd — a city in E Ukraine, E of Dnepropetrovsk.
- pergolesi — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- petrolage — the addition of petrol to the surface of a body of water to get rid of mosquitoes
- petrology — study of rocks
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- poly-drug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- pouringly — in a pouring fashion
- probingly — with a probing approach
- profiling — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- prolog-ii — Prolog with two new predicates: "dif" for coroutines and "freeze" for delayed evaluation. Available from ExperIntelligence, Santa Barbara CA.
- prologist — a prologue writer or performer
- prologize — to perform or introduce by means of a prologue
- prolonged — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
- propagule — Botany, Mycology. any structure capable of being propagated or acting as an agent of reproduction.
- pyelogram — an x-ray produced by pyelography.
- qu-prolog — An extension of Prolog which performs meta-level computations over object languages, such as predicate calculi and lambda-calculi, which have object-level variables, and quantifiers that create local scopes for those variables. Qu-Prolog is well suited as an implementation language for theorem provers and support notations typically found in texts on mathematics and logic.