8-letter words containing m, o, l
- gamboled — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- gamefowl — A gamebird.
- gemology — the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstones.
- gladsome — giving or causing joy; delightful.
- glamazon — A glamorous, powerfully assertive woman.
- glamours — Plural form of glamour.
- glamoury — (obsolete) magic.
- glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- gleesome — gleeful; merry.
- gloaming — twilight; dusk.
- glomming — to steal.
- glomping — Present participle of glomp.
- gloomier — Comparative form of gloomy.
- gloomily — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- glooming — total or partial darkness; dimness.
- glosseme — (in glossematics) an irreducible, invariant form, as a morpheme or tagmeme, that functions as the smallest meaningful unit of linguistic signaling.
- gloveman — fielder.
- glowlamp — An aphlogistic lamp.
- glowworm — the wingless female or larva of the European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, which emits a sustained greenish light.
- gluonium — glueball.
- gnomical — Gnomic.
- goldmark — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, Hungarian composer.
- goldmine — Alternative spelling of gold mine.
- gormless — lacking in vitality or intelligence; stupid, dull, or clumsy.
- gromwell — any of various often hairy plants of the genus Lithospermum, of the borage family, usually bearing white or yellowish flowers and smooth, white, stony nutlets.
- gumboils — Plural form of gumboil.
- gumbotil — a sticky clay formed by the thorough weathering of glacial drift, the thickness of the clay furnishing means for comparing relative lengths of interglacial ages.
- gun moll — a female companion of a criminal.
- halfmoon — the moon when, at either quadrature, half its disk is illuminated.
- halidome — a holy place, as a church or sanctuary.
- halloumi — a salty cheese originating in Cyprus and made from sheep’s or goat’s milk: often grilled or fried because it melts very slowly.
- haloform — A compound derived from methane by substituting three hydrogen atoms for halogen atoms, e.g., chloroform.
- hamilton — William Hamilton
- handloom — a loom operated manually, in contrast to a power loom.
- heirloom — a family possession handed down from generation to generation.
- helotism — the state or quality of being a helot; serfdom.
- hemiolas — Plural form of hemiola.
- hemlocks — Plural form of hemlock.
- hemocoel — a series of interconnected spaces between tissues and organs through which blood flows freely, unconfined by veins or arteries, occurring in several invertebrate groups, especially mollusks and arthropods.
- hemolyze — to subject (red blood cells) to hemolysis.
- hielamon — a shield made of wood or bark.
- hog plum — yellow mombin.
- hogmolly — hog sucker.
- hold 'em — a form of poker in which each player is dealt two cards face down and then makes the best five-card hand by combining these with three of five communal cards that are dealt to the center of the table.
- holm oak — an evergreen oak, Quercus ilex, of southern Europe, having foliage resembling that of the holly.
- hologamy — a type of reproduction in which the gametes are like ordinary cells in form and size, as is found in some algae and protozoa
- hologram — a negative produced by exposing a high-resolution photographic plate, without camera or lens, near a subject illuminated by monochromatic, coherent radiation, as from a laser: when it is placed in a beam of coherent light a true three-dimensional image of the subject is formed.
- holonymy — (countable, semantics) A semantic relation that exists between a term denoting a whole (the holonym) and a term denoting a part that pertains to the whole (the meronym).
- holy man — priest, spiritual leader
- homaloid — a geometrical plane, a flat surface or space