9-Letter Words with A,O,L,I,A,N,G,S

• sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching)

• dried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine

• any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms

• (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent

• a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

• an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard

• (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry

• a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

• connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face

• having an oblique or slanted direction

• longing for something past

• an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others

• drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect

• the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate

• someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy