8-letter words containing o, r, g, e
- isegoria — Equality of all in freedom of speech.
- jargoned — Simple past tense and past participle of jargon.
- jargonel — a type of pear that ripens early
- jerepigo — a usually red heavy dessert wine
- jongleur — (in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.
- kangeroo — Archaic form of kangaroo.
- kornberg — Arthur, 1918–2007, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
- 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 .
- maggiore — Lake, a lake in N Italy and S Switzerland. 83 sq. mi. (215 sq. km).
- mangrove — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rhizophora, the species of which are mostly low trees growing in marshes or tidal shores, noted for their interlacing above-ground adventitious roots.
- mcgovern — George (Stanley) 1922–2012, U.S. politician: Democratic presidential candidate 1972, senator 1963–81.
- mcgregor — Ewan. born 1971, Scottish actor; his films include Shallow Grave (1994), Trainspotting (1996), Moulin Rouge (2001), Big Fish (2004), and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- merogony — the development of an embryo from egg fragments lacking the egg nucleus but having an introduced male nucleus.
- mongered — Simple past tense and past participle of monger.
- mongrels — Plural form of mongrel.
- monogerm — having or coming from a seed that will only develop into a single plant
- moorages — Plural form of moorage.
- mornynge — Obsolete spelling of morning.
- mortgage — the rights conferred by it, or the state of the property conveyed.
- negators — Plural form of negator.
- negatory — marked by negation; denying; negative.
- negatron — Also called negatron. Physics, Chemistry. an elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of matter, having a negative charge of 1.602 × 10 −19 coulombs, a mass of 9.108 × 10 −31 kilograms, and spin of ½, and existing independently or as the component outside the nucleus of an atom.
- negrillo — a member of any of various small-statured, indigenous peoples of Africa, as a Pygmy.
- negroism — the doctrine or advocacy of equal rights for black people.
- negroize — to cause to include black people or to have the qualities or characteristics of black people: efforts to Negroize the team.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- nitrogen — a colorless, odorless, gaseous element that constitutes about four-fifths of the volume of the atmosphere and is present in combined form in animal and vegetable tissues, especially in proteins: used chiefly in the manufacture of ammonia, nitric acid, cyanide, explosives, fertilizer, dyes, as a cooling agent, etc. Symbol: N; atomic weight: 14.0067; atomic number: 7; density: 1.2506 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- nonglare — (of a colour, paint, or surface) dull rather than shiny