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11-letter words containing a, g, l, s

  • grand falls — former name of Churchill Falls.
  • grand-scale — of large proportion, extent, magnitude, etc.: grand-scale efforts; a grand-scale approach.
  • grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
  • graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
  • grass cloth — a cloth made from plant fibres, such as jute or hemp
  • grass style — a style of Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e painting, characterized chiefly by free or loose brush strokes.
  • grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
  • greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
  • greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
  • great falls — a city in central Montana, on the Missouri River.
  • great lakes — group of lakes in North America
  • greek salad — a salad of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, onions, and feta cheese, served with a vinaigrette.
  • green flash — a green coloration of the upper portion of the sun, caused by atmospheric refraction and occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks below the horizon.
  • green glass — glass of low quality, colored green by impurities in the materials from which it is made.
  • green salad — salad consisting of lettuce, etc.
  • grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
  • guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
  • gulf states — the oil-producing states around the Persian Gulf: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
  • gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
  • gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
  • gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
  • gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
  • gymnastical — Alternative form of gymnastic.
  • gypsy scale — either of two scales that often form the basis of Hungarian Gypsy music.
  • hagiologist — A writer on the lives of the saints; a hagiographer.
  • hairstyling — a person who designs and arranges hair styles.
  • halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
  • hand signal — indication made by hand
  • handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
  • haplogroups — Plural form of haplogroup.
  • harassingly — in a harassing manner
  • hasta luego — so long; (I'll) see you soon
  • hedgeapples — Plural form of hedgeapple.
  • hegelianism — the philosophy of Hegel and his followers, characterized by the use of the Hegelian dialectic.
  • heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
  • high places — (in ancient Semitic religions) a place of worship, usually a temple or altar on a hilltop.
  • highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
  • hooliganism — a ruffian or hoodlum.
  • horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
  • horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
  • hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
  • hylophagous — xylophagous (def 1).
  • hypergelast — Someone who laughs excessively.
  • hypoglossal — situated under the tongue.
  • idioglossia — a private form of speech invented by one child or by children who are in close contact, as twins.
  • illegalised — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.
  • intangibles — Plural form of intangible.
  • integralism — the belief that one's religious convictions should dictate one's political and social actions.
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