8-letter words containing g, i, l, m
- glimpses — Plural form of glimpse.
- gloaming — twilight; dusk.
- glomming — to steal.
- glomping — Present participle of glomp.
- gloomier — Comparative form of gloomy.
- gloomily — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- glooming — total or partial darkness; dimness.
- glucinum — (formerly) beryllium. Symbol: Gl.
- glumpily — in a glumpy manner
- glumpish — glum
- gluonium — glueball.
- glutamic — (organic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from glutamic acid.
- glycemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glycemic — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- gnomical — Gnomic.
- goldmine — Alternative spelling of gold mine.
- graymail — a means of preventing prosecution, as for espionage, by threatening to disclose government secrets during trial.
- gremlins — Plural form of gremlin.
- grimaldi — Joseph, 1779–1837, English actor, mime, and clown.
- grimhild — (in the Volsunga Saga) a sorceress, the wife of Gjuki and the mother of Gudrun and Gunnar. She gave Sigurd a potion to make him forget Brynhild so that he would marry Gudrun.
- grumpily — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- gumboils — Plural form of gumboil.
- gumbotil — a sticky clay formed by the thorough weathering of glacial drift, the thickness of the clay furnishing means for comparing relative lengths of interglacial ages.
- gymnical — Alternative form of gymnic.
- gymslips — Plural form of gymslip.
- homegirl — a girl or woman from the same locality as oneself.
- humbling — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- imagable — Alternative form of imageable.
- imaginal — of, relating to, or having the form of an imago.
- immingle — (obsolete) To mingle; to mix; to unite; to blend.
- impaling — Present participle of impale.
- impledge — to pledge
- implunge — to submerge
- implying — to indicate or suggest without being explicitly stated: His words implied a lack of faith.
- jumbling — Present participle of jumble.
- kilogram — a unit of mass equal to 1000 grams: the basic unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder kept in Sèvres, France. Abbreviation: kg.
- lambling — a small lamb
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- legalism — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
- legitime — (legal) That portion of a parent's estate of which he cannot disinherit his children, without a legal cause.
- lemmings — Plural form of lemming.
- lexigram — (psychology) A symbol that represents a word but is not necessarily indicative of the object referenced by the word, used in studies of communication.
- liegedom — the state of being a liege
- liegeman — a vassal; subject.
- liegemen — Plural form of liegeman.
- ligament — Anatomy, Zoology. a band of tissue, usually white and fibrous, serving to connect bones, hold organs in place, etc.
- ligement — Obsolete form of ledgment.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- limiting — serving to restrict or restrain; restrictive; confining.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.