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11-letter words containing d, g, l

  • enlightened — Having or showing a rational, modern, and well-informed outlook.
  • epidemology — Misspelling of epidemiology.
  • evangelized — Simple past tense and past participle of evangelize.
  • exceedingly — Extremely.
  • field glass — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
  • field grade — military rank applying to mid-level army officers, as majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels.
  • field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
  • field guide — a portable illustrated book to help identify birds, plants, rocks, etc., as on a nature walk.
  • field judge — an official who makes rulings regarding pass receptions, fair catches, field goals, etc.
  • filled gold — a composition consisting of gold-plating welded to and rolled with a backing of brass or other base metal, at least 1/20 (0.05) of the total weight being that of the gold.
  • fiscal drag — the process by which, during inflation, rising incomes draw people into higher tax brackets, so that their real incomes may fall; this acts as a restraint on the expansion of the economy
  • five-legged — (of a schooner) having five masts.
  • flabagasted — Alternative form of flabbergasted.
  • flagellated — to whip; scourge; flog; lash.
  • flap-dragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
  • flight deck — Navy. the upper deck of an aircraft carrier, constructed and equipped for the landing and takeoff of aircraft.
  • flood-light — an artificial light so directed or diffused as to give a comparatively uniform illumination over a rather large given area.
  • flooded gum — any of various eucalyptus trees of Australia, esp Eucalyptus saligna (the Sydney blue gum), that grow in damp soil
  • floodlights — Plural form of floodlight.
  • floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
  • flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
  • flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
  • folding top — A folding top is a soft roof of a vehicle that can be folded down or removed.
  • fool's gold — iron or copper pyrites, sometimes mistaken for gold.
  • footslogged — Simple past tense and past participle of footslog.
  • four-legged — having four legs.
  • frankpledge — a system of dividing a community into tithings or groups of ten men, each member of which was responsible for the conduct of the other members of his group and for the assurance that a member charged with a breach of the law would be produced at court.
  • freeholding — Property held in freehold.
  • freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
  • fringillids — Plural form of fringillid.
  • full-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; square-rigged on all of three or more masts.
  • fullfledged — Alternative spelling of full-fledged.
  • fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
  • galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
  • gallbladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
  • galliardise — the state of being gay or merry
  • gallic acid — a white or yellowish, crystalline, sparingly water-soluble solid, C 7 H 6 O 5 , obtained from nutgalls, used chiefly in tanning and in ink dyes.
  • gallivanted — Simple past tense and past participle of gallivant.
  • gallovidian — a native or inhabitant of Galloway
  • ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
  • garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
  • garden wall — a wall surrounding a garden or separating two gardens
  • garlandless — without a garland or garlands
  • gas bladder — air bladder (def 2).
  • gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
  • gas-bladder — a vesicle or sac containing air.
  • gelatinated — Simple past tense and past participle of gelatinate.
  • gelatinized — Simple past tense and past participle of gelatinize.
  • gender role — the public image of being a particular gender that a person presents to others: conventional notions of female gender roles.
  • genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
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