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11-letter words containing d, i, n, g, l

  • generalized — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
  • geniculated — Geniculate.
  • germylidene — (chemistry) the germanium analogues of carbenes, R2Ge':'.
  • ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
  • giant eland — a similar but larger animal, T. derbianus, living in wooded areas of central and W Africa
  • girlfriends — Plural form of girlfriend.
  • glide plane — a symmetry element of a space group such that a reflection of the lattice with respect to the plane and a translation of the lattice parallel to the plane bring the lattice back to its original position.
  • glossodynia — a condition characterized by a burning or tingling mouth region
  • glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
  • go downhill — travel down a slope
  • goaltending — goalkeeping.
  • goat island — an island in the Niagara River in W New York, in the middle of Niagara Falls, dividing the American Falls from the Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls.
  • god willing — if this is what God wishes
  • godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
  • godlikeness — The quality of being godlike.
  • gold fixing — the procedure by which the price of gold is established.
  • gold mining — the act or process of mining gold.
  • goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
  • golden fizz — a drink containing egg yolk, gin or vodka, lemon juice, sugar, and soda water.
  • golden girl — successful or celebrated woman
  • goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
  • gradational — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
  • granadillas — Plural form of granadilla.
  • grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
  • grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
  • grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
  • grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
  • grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
  • groundlings — Plural form of groundling.
  • groundsills — Plural form of groundsill.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
  • 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.
  • hydrolyzing — Present participle of hydrolyze.
  • indignantly — feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base: indignant remarks; an indignant expression on his face.
  • indigo blue — indigo (def 4).
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