11-letter words containing a, l, g, o, i
- glossolalia — incomprehensible speech in an imaginary language, sometimes occurring in a trance state, an episode of religious ecstasy, or schizophrenia.
- glottalized — pronounced with glottal coarticulation.
- 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.
- 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.
- glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
- go bail for — to furnish bail for
- go critical — (of a nuclear power station or reactor) to reach a state in which a nuclear-fission chain reaction becomes self-sustaining
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- go it alone — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go-it-alone — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- goalkeeping — The art of a goalkeeper.
- goalkicking — the act of taking a goal kick
- goaltending — goalkeeping.
- goat island — an island in the Niagara River in W New York, in the middle of Niagara Falls, dividing the American Falls from the Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- gorilla arm — The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized - the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterward. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly in *real* use?".
- gorillagram — a jocular greetings message delivered to someone celebrating a birthday, engagement, etc, by a person dressed as a gorilla
- gorillalike — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a gorilla.
- gradational — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- graminology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of grasses
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- granolithic — (of concrete) containing fine granite chippings or crushed granite, used to render floors and surfaces.
- granulation — the act or process of granulating.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- graptolitic — relating to, or containing, graptolites
- gratulation — a feeling of joy.
- groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
- gymnorhinal — (of a bird) having the nostrils exposed, not covered by feathers.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- hagiologist — A writer on the lives of the saints; a hagiographer.
- half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
- half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- halo blight — a disease of plants, characterized by small, necrotic leaf or fruit lesions surrounded by a yellowish, halolike band, caused by any of several bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- handholding — the act of holding hands, especially as a sign or token of affection.
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- harrowingly — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.