11-letter words containing g, e, t, a, l
- gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
- gesticulate — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- get a laugh — If a person or their comment gets a laugh or raises a laugh, they make the people listening to them laugh.
- get a life! — (abuse) Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed to terminal geekdom. Often heard on Usenet, especially as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularised by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that ended "Get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.
- get-at-able — accessible
- ghastliness — The state of being ghastly.
- giant eland — a similar but larger animal, T. derbianus, living in wooded areas of central and W Africa
- girdlestead — the waist
- give battle — to commence fighting
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glasscutter — a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass, having a cutting wheel of steel or tungsten carbide and notches for snapping the glass
- glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
- glitterball — Synonym of mirrorball.
- glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
- glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
- glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
- glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
- glottalized — pronounced with glottal coarticulation.
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- 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.
- glycerinate — to impregnate with glycerin.
- glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).
- glyptotheca — a space devoted to sculpture
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- go it alone — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go-it-alone — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- goaltending — goalkeeping.
- gold-plated — secure, valuable
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- golden gate — a strait in W California, between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific. 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- gospel oath — an oath sworn on the Gospels
- granitelike — Resembling granite.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- grass style — a style of Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e painting, characterized chiefly by free or loose brush strokes.
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- gray mullet — mullet1 (def 1).
- great falls — a city in central Montana, on the Missouri River.
- great lakes — group of lakes in North America
- great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
- great wheel — the wheel immediately driven by the power source.
- great world — fashionable society and its way of life
- great-uncle — a granduncle.
- gulf states — the oil-producing states around the Persian Gulf: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
- gutturalize — to speak or pronounce (something) in a guttural manner.