9-letter words containing a, l
- gangplank — a flat plank or small, movable, bridgelike structure for use by persons boarding or leaving a ship at a pier.
- gantelope — gauntlet2 .
- gantlines — Plural form of gantline.
- gaolbreak — Alternative form of jailbreak.
- gaoleress — a female gaoler
- garblings — Plural form of garbling.
- garbology — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- gardenful — An amount sufficient to fill a garden.
- garfunkel — Arthur ("Art") born 1942, U.S. singer.
- gargoyled — (of a building) Having gargoyles carved into it.
- gargoyles — Plural form of gargoyle.
- garibaldi — Giuseppe [juh-sep-ee;; Italian joo-zep-pe] /dʒəˈsɛp i;; Italian dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1807–82, Italian patriot and general.
- garlanded — a wreath or festoon of flowers, leaves, or other material, worn for ornament or as an honor or hung on something as a decoration: A garland of laurel was placed on the winner's head.
- garlander — One who makes or bears a garland.
- garlandry — a collection of garlands
- garlicked — flavoured with garlic
- garrulity — the quality of being garrulous; talkativeness; loquacity.
- garrulous — excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters.
- gas black — finely powdered carbon produced by burning natural gas. It is used as a pigment in paints, etc
- gas field — a district yielding natural gas.
- gas pedal — Automotive. gas (def 5b).
- gas plant — a plant, Dictamnus albus, of the rue family, native to Eurasia, having clusters of white or reddish flowers and strong-smelling foliage that emits a flammable vapor.
- gas-pedal — Automotive. gas (def 5b).
- gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
- gaslights — (British) Plural form of gaslight.
- gasolines — Plural form of gasoline.
- gastrular — Of or pertaining to a gastrula.
- gastrulas — Plural form of gastrula.
- gatefolds — Plural form of gatefold.
- gaugamela — an ancient village in Assyria, E of Nineveh: Alexander the Great defeated Darius III here in 331 b.c. The battle is often mistakenly called “battle of Arbela.”.
- gaugeable — Capable of being gauged.
- gauleiter — the leader or chief official of a political district under Nazi control.
- gauntlets — Plural form of gauntlet.
- gauss law — the principle that the total electric flux of a closed surface in an electric field is equal to 4π times the electric charge inside the surface.
- gauzelike — Like or resembling gauze.
- gavelkind — (originally) a tenure of land in which the tenant was liable for a rental in money or produce rather than for labor or military service.
- gavelling — Present participle of gavel.
- gavialoid — of or resembling gavials
- gazankulu — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in South Africa; abolished in 1993. Capital: Giyani
- gazillion — an extremely large, indeterminate number.
- gearwheel — a wheel having teeth or cogs that engage with those of another wheel or part; cogwheel.
- gell-mann — Murray, born 1929, U.S. physicist: devised a system for classifying elementary particles and postulated theory of quarks; Nobel Prize 1969.
- gelligaer — a town in S Wales, in Caerphilly county borough. Pop (including Ystrad Mynach): 17 185 (2001)
- geminally — in a geminal manner
- genealogy — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
- generable — capable of being generated or produced.
- generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.
- generalia — generalities
- generally — usually; commonly; ordinarily: He generally comes home at noon.
- generical — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.