11-letter words containing d, g, l
- great world — fashionable society and its way of life
- greek salad — a salad of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, onions, and feta cheese, served with a vinaigrette.
- green alder — a variety of alder (Alnus viridis) common in temperate areas of the northern hemisphere
- green gland — one of the pair of excretory organs in each side of the head region of decapod crustaceans, emptying at the base of the antennae.
- green salad — salad consisting of lettuce, etc.
- greenlander — a self-governing island belonging to Denmark, located NE of North America: the largest island in the world. About 844,000 sq. mi. (2,186,000 sq. km); about 700,000 sq. mi. (1,800,000 sq. km) icecapped. Capital: Godthåb.
- greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
- grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
- griddlecake — a thin cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake.
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- groenendael — former name of Belgian sheepdog.
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground loop — a sharp horizontal loop performed, usually involuntarily, while touching the ground.
- ground plan — Also called groundplot. the plan of a floor of a building.
- ground plum — a prostrate milk vetch, Astragalus crassicarpus, of the legume family, growing in the prairie regions of North America.
- ground rule — Usually, ground rules. basic or governing principles of conduct in any situation or field of endeavor: the ground rules of press conferences.
- groundcloth — A groundcloth is a piece of waterproof material which you put on the ground to sleep on when you are camping.
- groundlings — Plural form of groundling.
- groundsills — Plural form of groundsill.
- groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
- guadalajara — a state in W Mexico. 31,152 sq. mi. (80,685 sq. km). Capital: Guadalajara.
- guadalcanal — the largest of the Solomon Islands, in the W central Pacific: U.S. victory over the Japanese 1942–43. About 2500 sq. mi. (6475 sq. km).
- guelderrose — snowball (sense 2)
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- guillotined — Simple past tense and past participle of guillotine.
- guiltridden — Alternative spelling of guilt-ridden.
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- halogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of halogenate.
- hand signal — indication made by hand
- handholding — the act of holding hands, especially as a sign or token of affection.
- handrailing — Handrail.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- hang glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hang-glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hedge apple — osage orange.
- hedgeapples — Plural form of hedgeapple.
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- high-heeled — High-heeled shoes are women's shoes that have high heels.
- highblooded — of high blood, family, or race
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- highlighted — to emphasize or make prominent.
- highly paid — that receives a large salary
- hinderingly — in a hindering manner, so as to hinder or obstruct
- hinderlings — the buttocks or bottom
- hodgenville — a town in central Kentucky: birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
- holding-pen — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
- holographed — to make by the use of holography.
- homologated — Simple past tense and past participle of homologate.
- homologized — Simple past tense and past participle of homologize.
- hull girder — the theoretical box girder formed by the continuous longitudinal members of the hull of a ship, providing resistance to hogging and sagging.