9-letter words containing o, g, l, a
- laugh off — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- lawmonger — an inferior lawyer
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- legations — Plural form of legation.
- legionary — of, relating to, or belonging to a legion.
- ligations — Plural form of ligation.
- lightboat — a small lightship.
- lignaloes — agalloch.
- litigator — a courtroom lawyer.
- loathings — Plural form of loathing.
- lobengula — ?1836–94, last Matabele king (1870–93); his kingdom was destroyed by the British
- lock gate — one of the two gates of a lock
- lodgeable — Capable of being lodged.
- log cabin — house made of trimmed tree trunks
- logaoedic — composed of dactyls and trochees or of anapests and iambs, producing a movement somewhat suggestive of prose.
- logarithm — the exponent of the power to which a base number must be raised to equal a given number; log: 2 is the logarithm of 100 to the base 10 (2 = log10 100).
- logically — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- 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.
- logograms — Plural form of logogram.
- logograph — a conventional, abbreviated symbol for a frequently recurring word or phrase, as the symbol & for the word and. Also called logograph [law-guh-graf, -grahf, log-uh-] /ˈlɔ gəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf, ˈlɒg ə-/ (Show IPA).
- logomachy — a dispute about or concerning words.
- logomania — Great enthusiasm for words.
- logorrhea — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- 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 play — a long-playing phonograph record.
- long ream — 500 sheets of paper
- long tail — the segment of a market representing the large number of products that sell in small quantities, considered by some to be of greater financial value than the few products that sell in very large quantities
- long wave — Electricity. an electromagnetic wave over 60 meters in length.
- long-haul — line-haul.
- longaeval — Alt form longeval.
- longbeard — bellarmine.
- longboard — A type of long surfboard.
- longboats — Plural form of longboat.
- longhairs — Plural form of longhair.
- longobard — Lombard1 (def 2).
- los gatos — a town in W California.
- love game — a game in which one's opponent fails to win a point.
- lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
- macroalga — Large algae, often living attached in dense beds, such as kelp.
- macroglia — Any of various glial cells that are larger than microglia.
- macrology — Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.