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12-letter words containing a, l, n, g

  • glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
  • glad tidings — Glad tidings means good news.
  • gladiatorian — (dated) Of or relating to gladiators or to combat in general; gladiatorial.
  • gladsomeness — (archaic) gladness.
  • glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
  • glass string — (in Malaysia) the string of a kite used in kite fighting that has an abrasive coating of glue and crushed glass
  • glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
  • glaucescence — the state of having bluish green coloration
  • glaucousness — Quality of being glaucous.
  • glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
  • glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
  • global index — (filename extension)   (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
  • glossy snake — a nocturnal burrowing snake, Arizona elegans, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having smooth, glistening scales of tan with brown blotches.
  • glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
  • gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
  • glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
  • godwin's law — (humour)   "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
  • gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • gold-plating — the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.
  • golden aster — any North American, asterlike, composite plant of the genus Chrysopsis, having bright, golden-yellow flower heads, as C. mariana, of the eastern U.S.
  • golden eagle — a large eagle, Aquila chrysaëtos, of the Northern Hemisphere, having golden-brown feathers on the back of the head and neck.
  • golden ratio — the ratio of two lengths, equal in value to (1 + √5)/2, and given by b/a = (b + a)/b; it is the reciprocal of the golden section and also equal to (1 + golden section)
  • golden share — a share in a company that controls at least 51% of the voting rights, esp one retained by the UK government in some privatization issues
  • golden stars — a plant, Bloomeria crocea, of the amaryllis family, native to southern California, having clusters of golden-orange, starlike flowers.
  • golden state — California (used as a nickname).
  • golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
  • gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
  • gondwanaland — a hypothetical landmass in the Southern Hemisphere that separated toward the end of the Paleozoic Era to form South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
  • gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.
  • googleganger — a person with whom one shares one’s name, discovered when typing one’s name into an internet search engine
  • governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
  • gradeflation — grade inflation.
  • grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
  • grand finale — the concluding portion of a performance or entertainment, as a musical show, rodeo, etc., usually spectacular and involving most or all of the prior participants.
  • grand island — a city in S Nebraska.
  • grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
  • granulations — Plural form of granulation.
  • granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
  • granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
  • granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
  • gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
  • gratifyingly — In a manner that gratifies.
  • gratulations — a feeling of joy.
  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • graybar land — (jargon)   The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the grey bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for hours, waiting for that CAD rendering".
  • great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
  • green-collar — noting or pertaining to workers, jobs, or businesses that are involved in protecting the environment or solving environmental problems.
  • grimaldi man — a type of Aurignacian man having a negroid appearance, thought to be a race of Cro-Magnon man
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