10-letter words containing o, r, g, e, l
- gyneolatry — The adoration or worship of women.
- heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- heortology — the study of the history and significance of the feasts and seasons in the ecclesiastical calendar.
- heterology — Biology. the lack of correspondence of apparently similar organic structures as the result of unlike origins of constituent parts.
- hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- holstering — Present participle of holster.
- horselaugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the celestial meridian of an observer and the hour circle of a celestial body.
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- irreligion — lack of religion.
- jungle rot — any cutaneous disease or condition caused or induced by a tropical climate.
- kalgoorlie — a city in SW Australia: chief center of gold-mining industry in Australia.
- kilogramme — (British) alternative spelling of kilogram.
- kingsolver — Barbara, born 1955, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- lag b'omer — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 18th day of Iyar, being the 33rd day of the Omer, traditionally in commemoration of the end of the plague that killed Rabbi Akiba's students or of the bravery of Bar Kokba.
- lageniform — shaped like a flask; having an enlarged base tapering to a narrow neck.
- lager lout — a rowdy or aggressive young drunk male
- lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
- largemouth — Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large mouth.
- le bourget — a suburb of Paris: former airport, landing site for Charles A. Lindbergh, May 1927.
- le-allegro — L'Allegro.
- legionaire — Misspelling of legionnaire.
- legislator — a person who gives or makes laws.
- lego brick — a toy plastic brick with studs which can be connected to other plastic bricks and used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc
- lemongrass — A fragrant tropical grass that yields an oil that smells lemon. It is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumery and medicine.
- lesser dog — the constellation Canis Minor.
- levogyrate — levorotatory
- liege lord — a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- lobstering — the act, process, or business of capturing lobsters.
- loganberry — the large, dark-red, acid fruit of a plant, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus.
- loggerhead — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- logorrheic — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- logorrhoea — (British spelling) Standard form of logorrhea.
- logrollers — Plural form of logroller.
- long green — paper money; cash.
- long horse — vaulting horse.
- long metre — a stanzaic form consisting of four octosyllabic lines, used esp for hymns
- long press — (on a tablet or smartphone) the act of pressing one's finger down on an icon or other part of the screen for several seconds, as to activate a task or access additional options.
- long purse — wealth; riches
- long rifle — Kentucky rifle.
- long-eared — (of an animal) having long ears
- long-range — considering or extending into the future: a long-range outlook; long-range plans.
- longbeards — Plural form of longbeard.
- longed-for — A longed-for thing or event is one that someone wants very much.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
- longstreet — James, 1821–1904, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
- loom large — to be very prominent or important