11-letter words containing a, g, l, u
- garrulously — In a garrulous manner.
- gas guzzler — an automobile that has low fuel efficiency, getting relatively few miles per gallon.
- gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- gas-guzzler — an automobile that has low fuel efficiency, getting relatively few miles per gallon.
- gatling gun — an early type of machine gun consisting of a revolving cluster of barrels around a central axis, each barrel being automatically loaded and fired every revolution of the cluster.
- gelasius ii — (Giovanni de Gaeta) died 1119, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1118–19.
- gemmulation — the process of reproduction by gemmules.
- geniculated — Geniculate.
- genu valgum — knock-knee.
- gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
- gesticulate — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- get a laugh — If a person or their comment gets a laugh or raises a laugh, they make the people listening to them laugh.
- gladfulness — The quality of being gladful.
- glamorously — In a glamorous manner.
- glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
- glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
- glamourpuss — a glamorous person, esp a woman
- glasscutter — a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass, having a cutting wheel of steel or tungsten carbide and notches for snapping the glass
- glasshouses — Plural form of glasshouse.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
- glauconitic — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
- glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
- global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
- glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- glutathione — a crystalline, water-soluble peptide of glutamic acid, cysteine, and glycine, C 10 H 17 N 3 O 6 S, found in blood and in animal and plant tissues, and important in tissue oxidations and in the activation of some enzymes.
- gradualness — The condition of being gradual.
- grammalogue — a word symbolized by a sign or letter.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- granularity — of the nature of granules; grainy.
- granulating — Present participle of granulate.
- granulation — the act or process of granulating.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- granulomata — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
- gratulating — Present participle of gratulate.
- gratulation — a feeling of joy.
- gratulatory — (archaic) congratulatory.
- gray mullet — mullet1 (def 1).
- great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
- great-uncle — a granduncle.
- groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground plan — Also called groundplot. the plan of a floor of a building.
- guadalajara — a state in W Mexico. 31,152 sq. mi. (80,685 sq. km). Capital: Guadalajara.