9-letter words containing n, o, l, g
- knowingly — affecting, implying, or deliberately revealing shrewd knowledge of secret or private information: a knowing glance.
- knowledge — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
- koniology — the study of atmospheric dust and its effects
- labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
- lamington — (Australia, obsolete) A Homburg hat.
- langobard — Lombard1 (def 2).
- langouste — spiny lobster.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- largition — an act of, or the quality of, generosity or largesse
- lawmonger — an inferior lawyer
- legations — Plural form of legation.
- legionary — of, relating to, or belonging to a legion.
- lesioning — an injury; hurt; wound.
- lessoning — Present participle of lesson.
- lexington — a town in E Massachusetts, NW of Boston: first battle of American Revolution fought here April 19, 1775.
- ligations — Plural form of ligation.
- lignaloes — agalloch.
- ligniform — having the form of wood; resembling wood, as a variety of asbestos.
- limnology — the scientific study of bodies of fresh water, as lakes and ponds, with reference to their physical, geographical, biological, and other features.
- linkoping — a city in S Sweden.
- lionising — Present participle of lionise.
- lionizing — Present participle of lionize.
- liquoring — Present participle of liquor.
- loathings — Plural form of loathing.
- lobengula — ?1836–94, last Matabele king (1870–93); his kingdom was destroyed by the British
- lodgement — the act of lodging.
- lodgments — Plural form of lodgment.
- log cabin — house made of trimmed tree trunks
- logicians — Plural form of logician.
- loglan'82 — (language) A teaching language including all the programming tools used in object-oriented programming, modular programming, and structured programming as well as programming by rules and functional programming. Supported object-oriented programming features include classes, objects, coroutines, processes (in Loglan'82 processes are objects which are able to act in parallel), inheritance, exception handling, and dynamic arrays. Loglan'82 is apparently unrelated to Loglan. A cross-compiler to C is here.
- loglan-88 — (language) An object-oriented language from the Institute of Informatics at Warsaw University. Loglan-88 is apparently unrelated to Loglan.
- lognormal — noting or pertaining to a logarithmic function with a normal distribution, or the distribution of a random variable for which the logarithm of the variable has a normal distribution.
- logomania — Great enthusiasm for words.
- lohengrin — the son of Parzival, and a knight of the Holy Grail.
- loitering — to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
- loliginid — any member of the squid family Loliginidae, having an elongated conical body and partially retractable tentacles.
- lollingly — in a lolling manner
- lolloping — Present participle of lollop.
- long bone — any of the long, cylindrical, marrow-containing bones of the limbs: the long bone of the arm.
- long card — a card remaining in a hand after all the opponents' cards in that particular suit have been drawn.
- long clam — soft-shell clam.
- long face — an unhappy or gloomy expression: He's been walking around with a long face ever since he failed the examination.
- long game — the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit shots, especially drives, for distance. Compare short game (def 1).
- long haul — journey: long-distance
- long horn — a moist Cheddar of cylindrical shape, weighing about 12 pounds (5.4 kg).
- long iron — a club, as a driving iron, midiron, or mid-mashie, with a long shaft and an iron head the face of which has little slope, for hitting long, low shots.
- long jump — athletics: competition to jump the furthest
- long moss — Spanish moss.
- long play — a long-playing phonograph record.
- long ream — 500 sheets of paper