9-letter words starting with lo
- lombardia — a region of N central Italy, bordering on the Alps: dominated by prosperous lordships and city-states during the Middle Ages; later ruled by Spain and then by Austria before becoming part of Italy in 1859; intensively cultivated and in parts highly industrialized. Pop: 9 108 645 (2003 est). Area: 23 804 sq km (9284 sq miles)
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- lomonosov — Mikhail Vasilevich [myi-khuh-yeel vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /myɪ xʌˈyil vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1711–65, Russian philosopher, poet, scientist, and grammarian.
- londinium — the Latin name for London when it was a Roman city
- lone hand — Cards. a person who holds a hand so strong that he or she can play a deal without the hand of his or her partner. the hand played by such a person.
- lone pair — shoes, eyes
- lone wolf — a person who prefers to live, act, or work alone or independent of others.
- loneliest — Superlative form of lonely.
- long bone — any of the long, cylindrical, marrow-containing bones of the limbs: the long bone of the arm.
- long card — a card remaining in a hand after all the opponents' cards in that particular suit have been drawn.
- long clam — soft-shell clam.
- long face — an unhappy or gloomy expression: He's been walking around with a long face ever since he failed the examination.
- long game — the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit shots, especially drives, for distance. Compare short game (def 1).
- long haul — journey: long-distance
- long horn — a moist Cheddar of cylindrical shape, weighing about 12 pounds (5.4 kg).
- long iron — a club, as a driving iron, midiron, or mid-mashie, with a long shaft and an iron head the face of which has little slope, for hitting long, low shots.
- long jump — athletics: competition to jump the furthest
- long moss — Spanish moss.
- long play — a long-playing phonograph record.
- long ream — 500 sheets of paper
- long shot — a horse, team, etc., that has little chance of winning and carries long odds.
- long stop — a fielder who stands behind the wicket keeper, and catches balls the wicket keeper misses
- long suit — Cards. the suit in which the most cards are held in a hand. (in bridge) a suit in which four or more cards are held in a hand.
- long tail — the segment of a market representing the large number of products that sell in small quantities, considered by some to be of greater financial value than the few products that sell in very large quantities
- long view — a city in NE Texas.
- long wave — Electricity. an electromagnetic wave over 60 meters in length.
- long-form — noting or relating to journalistic content or a genre of journalism characterized by stories or essays that are several thousand words long, typically combining factual reporting with a narrative and empathetic style: A long-form article can illuminate and humanize your subject.
- long-haul — line-haul.
- long-jump — Track and Field. to execute a long jump.
- long-life — Long-life light bulbs and batteries are manufactured so that they last longer than ordinary ones. Long-life fruit juice and milk have been specially treated so that they last a long time.
- long-list — A long-list for something such as a job or a prize is a large group that has been chosen from all the people who applied for the job, or all the people or things that are competing for the prize. The successful ones from this group are chosen to go on the shortlist.
- long-lost — You use long-lost to describe someone or something that you have not seen for a long time.
- long-term — covering a relatively long period of time: a long-term lease.
- long-time — You use long-time to describe something that has existed or been a particular thing for a long time.
- longaeval — Alt form longeval.
- longbeard — bellarmine.
- longboard — A type of long surfboard.
- longboats — Plural form of longboat.
- longcloth — a fine, white, cotton cloth, of plain weave; high-grade muslin.
- longerons — Plural form of longeron.
- longevity — a long individual life; great duration of individual life: Our family is known for its longevity.
- longevous — long-lived; living to a great age.
- longhairs — Plural form of longhair.
- longhorns — Plural form of longhorn.
- longhouse — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- longicorn — having long antennae.
- longingly — strong, persistent desire or craving, especially for something unattainable or distant: filled with longing for home.
- longitude — Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- longliner — a commercial fishing vessel that uses a longline.
- longlines — Plural form of longline.