5-letter words containing a, l, g
- galen — Latin Galenus [guh-lee-nuh s] /gəˈli nəs/ (Show IPA). Claudius, a.d. c130–c200, Greek physician and writer on medicine.
- gales — Plural form of gale.
- galet — to fill (a mortar joint) with gallets.
- galla — Oromo.
- galle — a seaport in SW Sri Lanka.
- gallo — Robert (Charles) born 1937, U.S. scientist, specializing in cancer and AIDS research.
- galls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gall.
- gally — to frighten or scare.
- galop — a lively round dance in duple time.
- galut — the forced exile of Jews, especially from countries where they were most persecuted.
- gaols — Plural form of gaol.
- gault — A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks.
- gavel — feudal rent or tribute.
- gavle — a seaport in E Sweden.
- gayal — an ox, Bibos frontalis, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, sometimes considered to be a domesticated breed of the gaur.
- gayle — a female or male given name.
- gayly — with merriment; merrily; joyfully; cheerfully.
- gazel — Archaic form of gazelle.
- genal — the cheek or side region of the head.
- gilda — a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “golden.”.
- glace — frozen.
- glade — an open space in a forest.
- glads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glad.
- glady — resembling a glade
- glaik — a flash of light
- glair — the white of an egg.
- glama — the longest river in Norway, flowing S to the Skagerrak. 365 miles (587 km) long.
- gland — a sleeve within a stuffing box, fitted over a shaft or valve stem and tightened against compressible packing in such a way as to prevent leakage of fluid while allowing the shaft or stem to move; lantern ring.
- glans — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- glare — a bright, smooth surface, as of ice.
- glark — /glark/ To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally "glork"; the context was "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hackish usage mutated the verb to "glark" because glork was already an established jargon term. Compare grok, zen.
- glary — smooth and slippery, as ice.
- glass — Carter, 1858–1946, U.S. statesman.
- glatt — (Yinglish, of an animal, Judaism) Having none of a particular kind of adhesion on the outside of its lungs; only meat from a glatt animal can be kosher.
- glaum — to snatch at something
- glaur — mud or mire
- glave — glaive.
- glaze — to furnish or fill with glass: to glaze a window.
- glazy — Having the appearance of a glaze.
- glead — (archaic) A live coal.
- gleam — a flash or beam of light: the gleam of a lantern in the dark.
- glean — to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- gleba — the sporogenous tissue forming the central part of the sporophore in certain fungi, as in puffballs and stinkhorns.
- glial — Of or pertaining to glia.
- glias — neuroglia.
- gloam — twilight; gloaming.
- gloar — (obsolete, intransitive) To squint; to stare.
- gloat — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- gnarl — a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.
- goals — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.