8-letter words containing f, g, l
- fulgency — the quality of being fulgent; resplendence; brightness
- fulgural — of or relating to lightning
- fumbling — to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
- fumingly — In a rage.
- fungible — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
- furlongs — Plural form of furlong.
- furlough — Military. a vacation or leave of absence granted to an enlisted person.
- fuselage — the complete central structure to which the wing, tail surfaces, and engines are attached on an airplane.
- gadflies — Plural form of gadfly.
- gaffling — to take hold of; seize.
- gaffsail — an iron hook with a handle for landing large fish.
- gainfull — Archaic form of gainful.
- galofalo — modern name of Charybdis.
- gamefowl — A gamebird.
- gap-fill — In language teaching, a gap-fill test is an exercise in which words are removed from a text and replaced with spaces. The learner has to fill each space with the missing word or a suitable word.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- garofalo — Galofalo.
- gas lift — Gas lift is a method in which gas is injected into the production tubing (= tubes through which hydrocarbons flow to the surface) to allow liquids to enter the wellbore at a higher flow rate.
- gasfield — a subterranean area where natural gas is found
- gastfull — dismal; dreary
- gatefold — foldout (def 1).
- ghastful — frightful.
- giftable — suitable for a gift.
- giftedly — In a gifted manner.
- gigaflop — gigaflops
- glassfet — /glas'fet/ [Analogy with MOSFET] (or "firebottle") A humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube.
- glassful — an amount contained by or sufficient to fill a glass or tumbler.
- glassify — to become glass or glass-like
- gleefull — Archaic form of gleeful.
- godawful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- goldfish — a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.
- golf bag — a bag, usually made of canvas, for carrying golf clubs and golf balls.
- golfiana — golfing collectibles
- gonfalon — a banner suspended from a crossbar, often with several streamers or tails.
- goofball — an extremely incompetent, eccentric, or silly person.
- graceful — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- grateful — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- greatful — Misspelling of grateful.
- greenfly — an aphid, Coloradoa rufomaculata, that is an important pest of chrysanthemums.
- grenfell — Sir Wilfred Thomason [tom-uh-suh n] /ˈtɒm ə sən/ (Show IPA), 1865–1940, English physician and missionary in Labrador and Newfoundland.
- griefful — (archaic) Expressing or full of grief; painful.
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- gruffily — in a gruffy manner
- guileful — insidiously cunning; artfully deceptive; wily.
- guilford — a town in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- gulf war — a conflict (Jan.–Feb. 1991) between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
- gulflike — Resembling a gulf or some aspect of one.
- gulfport — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- gulfweed — a coarse, olive-brown, branching seaweed, Sargassum bacciferum, common in the Gulf Stream and tropical American seas, characterized by numerous berrylike air vessels.