8-letter words containing o, r, i, g
- isograms — Plural form of isogram.
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- jerepigo — a usually red heavy dessert wine
- kilogram — a unit of mass equal to 1000 grams: the basic unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder kept in Sèvres, France. Abbreviation: kg.
- kilogray — one thousand grays
- koftgari — the art of inlaying steel with gold
- kopfring — a metal ring welded to the nose of a bomb to reduce its penetration in earth or water.
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- leg iron — a shackle for a prisoner's leg
- leggiero — Misspelling of leggero.
- 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.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- log fire — a fire on which logs are burned
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- lordling — a minor, unimportant, or petty lord.
- louvring — to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
- lowering — comparative of low1 .
- maggiore — Lake, a lake in N Italy and S Switzerland. 83 sq. mi. (215 sq. km).
- majoring — a commissioned military officer ranking next below a lieutenant colonel and next above a captain.
- marigold — any of several chiefly golden-flowered composite plants, especially of the genus Tagetes, as T. erecta, having strong-scented foliage and yielding an oil that repels root parasites.
- microlog — (architecture) A section of non-volitile memory used to record state information. Often used for retaining crash information after a reboot in embedded systems.
- micropig — A miniature breed of pig.
- migrator — (computing) A computer program that helps move objects between locations, e.g. from a legacy system to a new technology.
- minoring — lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two: a minor share.
- moorings — the act of a person or thing that moors.
- morgagni — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1682–1771, Italian anatomist.
- mornings — in or during the morning regularly.
- morphing — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- mortling — wool obtained from dead sheep.
- motoring — a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- mourning — The expression of deep sorrow for someone who has died, typically involving following certain conventions such as wearing black clothes.
- 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.
- nigrosin — any of the class of deep blue or black dyes obtained by the oxidation of aniline, used as coloring agents in inks and shoe polishes and for dyeing leather, wood, textiles, and furs.
- 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.
- nonrigid — not rigid.
- norridge — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- northing — northward movement or deviation.
- obligors — Plural form of obligor.
- occuring — Misspelling of occurring, the present participle of occur.
- off-grid — energy: not from main supply
- offering — an act or instance of offering: an offer of help.
- old girl — Chiefly British. a former student at a girl's school, especially a preparatory school.
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- oligomer — a polymer molecule consisting of a small number of monomers.
- oliguria — scantiness of urine due to diminished secretion.
- oliguric — of or relating to oliguria