5-letter words containing l, o
- glory — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
- gloss — an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
- glost — Of or pertaining to lead glazing, or the kiln firing process for this glaze.
- glour — Alternative spelling of glower.
- glout — to scowl or frown.
- glove — a covering for the hand made with a separate sheath for each finger and for the thumb.
- glows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glow.
- glowy — Glowing.
- gloze — to explain away; extenuate; gloss over (usually followed by over).
- gluon — an unobserved massless particle with spin 1 that is believed to transmit the strong force between quarks, binding them together into baryons and mesons.
- gnoll — A usually evil and dog-like humanoid creature found in various forms in fantasy literature and video games.
- goals — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- godel — Kurt [kurt] /kɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1906–78, U.S. mathematician and logician, born in Austria-Hungary.
- godly — conforming to the laws and wishes of God; devout; pious.
- gogol — Nikolai Vasilievich [nik-uh-lahy vuh-seel-yuh-vich;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ vəˈsil yə vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1809–52, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
- golda — a female given name.
- golde — Archaic spelling of gold.
- goldi — Nanay.
- golds — Plural form of gold.
- goldy — Golden.
- golem — Jewish Folklore. a figure artificially constructed in the form of a human being and endowed with life.
- golfs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of golf.
- golgi — Camillo [kah-meel-law] /kɑˈmil lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843?–1926, Italian physician and histologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1906.
- golly — Used to express surprise or delight.
- golpe — a purple circle
- goltz — Baron Kolmar von der [kawl-mahr fuh n duh r] /ˈkɔl mɑr fən dər/ (Show IPA), 1843–1916, German field marshal.
- gomel — a city in SE Byelorussia (Belarus), on a tributary of the Dnieper.
- goole — an inland port in NE England, in the East Riding of Yorkshire at the confluence of the Ouse and Don Rivers, 75 km (47 miles) from the North Sea. Pop: 18 741 (2001)
- goral — a short-horned goat antelope, Naemorhedus goral, of the mountainous regions of southeastern Asia: an endangered species.
- gospl — Graphics-Oriented Signal Processing Language. A graphical DSP language for simulation.
- gould — Chester, 1900–85, U.S. cartoonist: creator of the comic strip “Dick Tracy.”.
- goyal — A ravine or other depression.
- goyle — a ravine
- growl — to utter a deep guttural sound of anger or hostility: The dog growled at the mail carrier.
- hallo — the cry “hallo!”.
- halo- — indicating salt or the sea
- halon — Any of a number of unreactive gaseous compounds of carbon with bromine and other halogens, used in fire extinguishers, but now known to damage the ozone layer.
- halos — Plural form of halo.
- haole — (among Polynesian Hawaiians) a term used to refer to a non-Polynesian, especially a white person.
- helio — a heliogram.
- hello — hello, world
- heloc — home equity line of credit: a loan in which the borrower receives a line of credit and uses the equity in a home as collateral.
- helos — helicopter.
- helot — a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state. Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- hibol — (language) A variant of DIBOL, used in Infotec computers. HIBOL was considered to be a very high level language and significantly easier to maintain than COBOL. It uses a single type of data object, called a flow, which is an indexed stream of data values. Computation is expressed as operations acting on flows.
- hillo — Obsolete form of hello.
- hilog — A higher-order logic programming language. An extension of normal logic programming where predicate symbols may be variable or structured. This allows unification to be performed on the predicate symbols themselves in addition to their arguments.
- holde — Archaic spelling of hold.
- holds — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- holed — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.