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8-letter words containing o, r, g, e, l

  • growlery — a place to retreat to, alone, when ill-humoured
  • gurgoyle — Alternative form of gargoyle.
  • gyrolite — calcium silicate hydroxide in a hydrated form
  • hoggerel — a sheep in its second or third year
  • holliger — Heinz (haints). born 1939, Swiss oboist and composer
  • homegirl — a girl or woman from the same locality as oneself.
  • horngeld — a feudal tax levied on horned cattle
  • horologe — any instrument for indicating the time, especially a sundial or an early form of clock.
  • hydrogel — a gel whose liquid constituent is water.
  • hypergol — any hypergolic agent.
  • jargonel — a type of pear that ripens early
  • jongleur — (in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.
  • laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
  • lagerlof — Selma (Ottiliana Lovisa) [sel-mah awt-ti-lee-ah-nah loo-vi-sah] /ˈsɛl mɑ ˌɔt tɪ liˈɑ nɑ ˈlu vɪˌsɑ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1940, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1909.
  • leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
  • leg drop — a narrow scenery flat or drop, often used in a pair to form an inverted U .
  • leg iron — a shackle for a prisoner's leg
  • leg room — space to move one's legs
  • leg rope — a rope used to secure an animal by its hind leg
  • leg work — work or research involving extensive walking or traveling about, usually away from one's office, as in gathering data for a book, a legal action, etc.
  • leg-work — work or research involving extensive walking or traveling about, usually away from one's office, as in gathering data for a book, a legal action, etc.
  • leggiero — Misspelling of leggero.
  • leghorns — Plural form of leghorn.
  • levogyre — an anticlockwise spiral
  • ligroine — a flammable mixture of hydrocarbons that boils at from 20°C to 135°C, obtained from petroleum by distillation and used as a solvent.
  • log fire — a fire on which logs are burned
  • log reel — a reel from which the line of a log chip runs.
  • logperch — a darter, Percina caprodes, of eastern North American lakes and streams, having a piglike snout.
  • longeron — a main longitudinal brace or support on an airplane.
  • longterm — covering a relatively long period of time: a long-term lease.
  • longueur — a long and boring passage in a literary work, drama, musical composition, or the like: The longueurs in this book make it almost unreadable.
  • loungers — Plural form of lounger.
  • low gear — the arrangement of gears providing little speed but great torque
  • lowering — comparative of low1 .
  • mongrels — Plural form of mongrel.
  • negrillo — a member of any of various small-statured, indigenous peoples of Africa, as a Pygmy.
  • nonglare — (of a colour, paint, or surface) dull rather than shiny
  • oligomer — a polymer molecule consisting of a small number of monomers.
  • oral gel — An oral gel is a semi-solid, jelly-like substance that is applied in the mouth.
  • orangelo — A citrus fruit that is a cross between an orange and a grapefruit.
  • outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
  • overgall — to make sore all over
  • overgild — to cover with gilding.
  • overglad — too glad
  • overlong — too or excessively long
  • playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
  • prologue — a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.
  • prolonge — a rope having a hook at one end and a toggle at the other, used for various purposes, as to draw a gun carriage.
  • promulge — to promulgate.
  • regional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
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