11-letter words containing e, u, l, o, g
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- genouillere — jointed armour for protecting the knees
- genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
- glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
- glasshouses — Plural form of glasshouse.
- glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
- global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
- glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- glutathione — a crystalline, water-soluble peptide of glutamic acid, cysteine, and glycine, C 10 H 17 N 3 O 6 S, found in blood and in animal and plant tissues, and important in tissue oxidations and in the activation of some enzymes.
- glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
- go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
- go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
- god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- golden hour — the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving
- golden rule — a rule of ethical conduct, usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” or, as in the Sermon on the Mount, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Matt. 7:12; Luke 6:31.
- golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
- grammalogue — a word symbolized by a sign or letter.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
- grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
- ground rule — Usually, ground rules. basic or governing principles of conduct in any situation or field of endeavor: the ground rules of press conferences.
- groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- guelderrose — snowball (sense 2)
- guerrillero — a guerrilla
- guillotined — Simple past tense and past participle of guillotine.
- guillotines — Plural form of guillotine.
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- hasta luego — so long; (I'll) see you soon
- hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
- horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
- hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
- houselights — (plural only) The lights that illuminate the audience section of an auditorium or theatre.
- indigo blue — indigo (def 4).
- ingeniously — characterized by cleverness or originality of invention or construction: an ingenious machine.
- ingenuously — free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
- irreligious — not religious; not practicing a religion and feeling no religious impulses or emotions.
- jungle cock — the male of the jungle fowl.
- jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.