9-letter words containing c, g, e, l
- gigacycle — one billion cycles. Abbreviation: Gc.
- glace bay — a town in E Nova Scotia, in SE Canada, on E Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic Ocean.
- glaciated — Covered or having been covered by glaciers or ice sheets.
- glaciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glaciate.
- glaciered — covered by, or coming from, glaciers
- glare ice — ice having a smooth, glassy surface that reflects sunlight.
- glaze ice — to furnish or fill with glass: to glaze a window.
- glee club — a chorus organized for singing choral music.
- glen cove — a city on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- glen rock — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- glocalize — of or relating to the interconnection of global and local issues, factors, etc.: a glocal conference on community development.
- gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
- glucoside — any of an extensive group of compounds that yield glucose and some other substance or substances when treated with a dilute acid or decomposed by a ferment or enzyme.
- glycaemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glycaemic — Alternative spelling of glycemic.
- glyceride — any of a group of esters obtained from glycerol by the replacement of one, two, or three hydroxyl groups with a fatty acid: the principal constituent of adipose tissue.
- glycerine — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- glycerite — a preparation of a medicinal substance dissolved in or mixed with glycerin.
- glycerole — Dated form of glycerol.
- glyceryls — Plural form of glyceryl.
- glycolate — a salt or ester of glycolic acid.
- glycoside — any of the class of compounds that yield a sugar and an aglycon upon hydrolysis.
- go places — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- goldcrest — a Eurasian kinglet, Regulus regulus, having a bright yellow patch on the top of the head.
- gracefull — Archaic form of graceful.
- graceless — without any sense of right or propriety.
- grapelice — lice that are destructive to grape plants
- graticule — Navigation. a network of parallels and meridians on a map or chart.
- grayscale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
- guacamole — a dip of mashed avocado mixed with tomato, onion, and seasonings.
- guilloche — an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids.
- ideologic — of or relating to ideology.
- jockteleg — a large clasp knife or pocketknife; jackknife.
- l-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- lacewings — Plural form of lacewing.
- lackering — to coat with lacquer.
- lag screw — type of threaded bolt
- lag-screw — to fasten with a lag screw.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- large-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more.
- lechering — a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- lecturing — Present participle of lecture.
- legal cap — ruled writing paper in tablet form, measuring approximately 8½ × 13 to 14 inches (22 × 33 to 36 cm).
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- licencing — license.
- licensing — Grant a license to (someone or something) to permit the use of something or to allow an activity to take place.
- lich gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard under which a bier is set down during a burial service to await the coming of the clergyman.
- lift cage — the box of a lift, in the form of an open framework
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.