8-letter words containing alo
- gonfalon — a banner suspended from a crossbar, often with several streamers or tails.
- haloform — A compound derived from methane by substituting three hydrogen atoms for halogen atoms, e.g., chloroform.
- halogens — Plural form of halogen.
- halolike — resembling a halo.
- halophil — Halobacterium.
- halosere — a plant community that originates and develops in conditions of high salinity
- hexalogy — A set of six works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as six individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- homaloid — a geometrical plane, a flat surface or space
- hyalogen — any of several insoluble substances found in many animal structures such as cartilage which yield sugars on hydrolysis structures
- idealogy — Misspelling of ideology.
- jalopies — Plural form of jalopy.
- jaloused — Simple past tense and past participle of jalouse.
- jalousie — a blind or shutter made with horizontal slats that can be adjusted to admit light and air but exclude rain and the rays of the sun.
- jealouse — to suspect
- jealousy — jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself.
- kephalos — Cephalus.
- linalool — a colorless, unsaturated terpene liquid alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, having a fragrance similar to that of bergamot oil, obtained from several essential oils: used in perfumery.
- magalogs — Plural form of magalog.
- malodour — Alternative spelling of malodor.
- malonate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of malonic acid.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- naloxone — a narcotic analgesic antagonist, C 1 9 H 2 1 NO 4 , used in the reversal of acute narcotic analgesic respiratory depression.
- octalogy — (rare) # A set of eight works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as eight individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- octaloop — (genetics) An eight-base hairpin loop motif.
- omphalo- — navel, umbilicus
- omphalos — the navel; umbilicus.
- palometa — a pompano, Trachinotus goodei, of tropical and temperate Atlantic seas, having long, tapering fins.
- palomino — a horse with a golden coat, a white mane and tail, and often white markings on the face and legs, developed chiefly in the southwestern U.S.
- paralogy — false reasoning
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- petaloid — having the form or appearance of a petal.
- petalous — having petals.
- portaloo — a portable toilet
- salonika — Also, Salonica [suh-lon-i-kuh, sal-uh-nee-kuh] /səˈlɒn ɪ kə, ˌsæl əˈni kə/ (Show IPA), Saloniki [Greek sah-law-nee-kee] /Greek ˌsɑ lɔˈni ki/ (Show IPA). Official name Thessalonike. Ancient Therma. a seaport in south-central Macedonia, in NE Greece, on the Gulf of Salonika.
- salopian — a county in W England. 1348 sq. mi. (3490 sq. km).
- santalol — a liquid from sandalwood used in making perfume
- secalose — a sugar which occurs in green rye and oats
- sepalody — the changing of other flower parts, such as petals, into sepals
- sepaloid — resembling a sepal.
- slalomer — a person who slaloms
- squaloid — of, relating to, or like a shark, or specifically the dogfish (Squalidae) family of sharks
- st. malo — a fortified seaport in NW France, on the Gulf of St. Malo: resort; surrendered by German forces August 1944.
- tagalong — a person or thing that follows the lead or initiative of another.
- ultralow — extremely low
- valorise — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- valorize — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- valorous — having valor; courageous; valiant; brave.
- vindaloo — a very hot Indian curry made with meat or poultry, flavored with tamarind, vinegar, and garlic.
- zealotic — In the manner of a zealot; zealous; fanatic.
- zealotry — undue or excessive zeal; fanaticism.