9-letter words containing alo
- dialogues — Plural form of dialogue.
- ennealogy — A speech or treatise consisting of nine parts or chapters; any work in nine parts (compare trilogy (3-part), tetralogy (4-part), etc.).
- escaloped — Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.
- escalopes — Plural form of escalope.
- gavialoid — of or resembling gavials
- genealogy — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
- get along — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- gonfalons — Plural form of gonfalon.
- halobiont — an organism that thrives in a saline environment.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- haloforms — Plural form of haloform.
- halogeton — a poisonous herbaceous plant, native to Siberia, that grows in North America
- halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
- halophile — any organism, as certain halobacteria and marine bacteria, that requires a salt-rich environment for its growth and survival.
- halophily — the ability or predisposition to thrive in an extremely salty environment
- halophobe — a creature that is unable to live in salty conditions
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- halothane — a colorless liquid, C 2 HBrClF 3 , used as an inhalant for general anesthesia.
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- hyalomere — the transparent part of a blood platelet, surrounding the chromomere.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- idealogue — One given to fanciful ideas or theories, someone who theorizes.
- jalousies — Plural form of jalousie.
- jealously — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- labetalol — an alpha- and beta-adrenergic blocking agent, C 19 H 24 N 2 O 3 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- lalopathy — any defect of speech.
- let alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
- lignaloes — agalloch.
- magalogue — a combination of a magazine and a catalogue
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- mammalogy — the science dealing with mammals.
- mangalore — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- megalodon — Any of a group of extinct sharks from the Oligocene to Pleistocene epochs.
- megalopia — macropsia.
- megalopic — having large eyes
- metalogic — the logical analysis of the fundamental concepts of logic.
- nukualofa — a Polynesian kingdom consisting of three groups of islands in the S Pacific, NE of New Zealand: a former British protectorate. About 270 sq. mi. (700 sq. km). Capital: Nukualofa.
- nyctalope — a person or animal affected by nyctalopia
- nyctalops — a person affected by nyctalopia
- omphaloid — resembling or similar to the navel
- oskaloosa — a city in SE central Iowa.
- palo alto — a city in W California, SE of San Francisco.
- paloverde — a spiny, desert shrub, Cercidium floridum, of the legume family, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having green bark.
- pantalone — an Italian comic character
- pantaloon — pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
- paralogia — incoherent speech or thinking
- paralogue — either of a pair of genes derived from the same ancestral gene
- pardalote — any of several tiny, short-tailed Australian songbirds of the genus Pardalotus, having short bills and most having brilliant plumage with gemlike specks on the dark upper parts.
- passalong — the act of giving or conveying something to another person for additional use: Readership passalong means that three people read every copy of the magazine.
- pentalogy — a combination of five closely related things, esp (in medicine) closely connected symptoms or (in art) related works of art