9-letter words containing g, a, l, t
- gauntlets — Plural form of gauntlet.
- genetical — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
- geniality — warmly and pleasantly cheerful; cordial: a genial disposition; a genial host.
- genitalia — The genitals.
- genitalic — Relating to the genitals.
- genitally — Concerning the genitals.
- genitival — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
- gentleman — a man of good family, breeding, or social position.
- geraldton — a seaport in W Australia.
- gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
- gestalten — a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.
- get along — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- getatable — Capable of being got at; accessible.
- ghastlier — Comparative form of ghastly.
- ghostball — (baseball) A type of pitch; the knuckleball.
- giantlike — Like a giant; enormous.
- gibraltar — a British crown colony comprising a fortress and seaport located on a narrow promontory near the S tip of Spain. 1.875 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- gigaliter — Alternative spelling of gigalitre.
- gigalitre — A unit of volume equivalent to 109 litres (one billion [British billion] liters). Symbol: Gl.
- gileadite — a member of a branch of the Israelite tribe descended from Manasseh.
- giltheads — Plural form of gilthead.
- gintleman — (Irish) eye dialect of gentleman.
- glaciated — Covered or having been covered by glaciers or ice sheets.
- glaciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glaciate.
- gladiator — (in ancient Rome) a person, often a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and compelled to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators.
- gladstone — William Ewart [yoo-ert] /ˈyu ərt/ (Show IPA), 1809–98, British statesman: prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894.
- glaserite — (mineral) A saline evaporite, consisting of potassium sulphate.
- glasphalt — a road-surfacing material composed of asphalt and crushed glass.
- glass tty — /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both: like a printing terminal, it can't do fancy display hacks, and like a display terminal, it doesn't produce hard copy. An example is the early "dumb" version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3 (without cursor control). See tube, tty; compare dumb terminal, smart terminal. See "TV Typewriters" for an interesting true story about a glass tty.
- glassiest — Superlative form of glassy.
- glasswort — any of several plants of the genus Salicornia, of the amaranth family, having succulent stems with rudimentary leaves, formerly used, when burned to ashes, as a source of soda for glassmaking.
- glaucodot — a mineral, iron and cobalt sulfarsenide, (Co,Fe)AsS, occurring in grayish-white crystals.
- glazement — a waterproof glaze for a masonry wall.
- glidepath — the course followed by an aircraft or spacecraft when descending for a landing.
- globalist — the attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations.
- glomerate — compactly clustered.
- glossator — a person who writes glosses; glossarist.
- glottalic — (linguistics) Related to or produced via complete closure of the glottis.
- gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
- glutamate — a salt or ester of glutamic acid.
- glutamine — a crystalline amino acid, HOOCCH(NH 2)CH 2 CH 2 CONH 2 , related to glutamic acid. Symbol: Q. Abbreviation: Gln;
- glutinant — a nematocyst that discharges a thread covered with a sticky secretion.
- glycation — (biochemistry) non-enzymatic reaction of a sugar and an amine group of a protein to form a glycoprotein.
- glycolate — a salt or ester of glycolic acid.
- gnarliest — gnarled.
- gnostical — pertaining to knowledge.
- go postal — of or relating to the post office or mail service: postal delivery; postal employees.
- go to law — If you go to law, you go to court in order to get a legal judgment on a dispute.
- goal post — either of the two vertical posts that support a crossbar and form the opening of a goal in soccer, hockey, etc.
- goalmouth — the area between the goalposts directly in front of the goal in certain games, as soccer, lacrosse, and hockey.