9-letter words containing g, l, a, s
- digitalis — any plant belonging to the genus Digitalis, of the figwort family, especially the common foxglove, D. purpurea.
- diglossia — the widespread existence within a society of sharply divergent formal and informal varieties of a language each used in different social contexts or for performing different functions, as the existence of Katharevusa and Demotic in modern Greece.
- disabling — Present participle of disable.
- drag sail — a sea anchor made of canvas.
- draglifts — Plural form of draglift.
- draglines — Plural form of dragline.
- eastleigh — a borough in Hampshire, S England.
- eastlings — eastward
- eggplants — Plural form of eggplant.
- elegances — Plural form of elegance.
- elongates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elongate.
- enlargers — Plural form of enlarger.
- enlargest — Archaic second-person singular form of enlarge.
- ensilaged — Simple past tense and past participle of ensilage.
- enslaving — Present participle of enslave.
- entangles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of entangle.
- esclavage — A type of chain or bead necklace.
- espagnole — a tomato and sherry sauce
- estrangle — (obsolete) To strangle.
- falangism — the ideology and practices of the Falange political party
- falangist — a member of the Falange.
- fanlights — Plural form of fanlight.
- fastigial — Relating to a fastigium.
- fiberglas — finespun filaments of glass made into yarn that is woven into textiles, used in woolly masses as insulation, and pressed and molded as plastic material
- filagrees — Plural form of filagree.
- flabagast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flag seat — a seat woven from reeds, rushes, or iris leaves.
- flag smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the affected leaves and stems, which later dry up and become shredded, caused by several smut fungi of the genus Urocystis.
- flag stop — a bus stop at which a bus only stops if there is someone waiting or if someone wants to get off the bus
- flagitous — (archaic) wicked, reprehensible.
- flagpoles — Plural form of flagpole.
- flagships — Plural form of flagship.
- flagstaff — flagpole.
- flagstick — pin (def 13).
- flagstone — Also called flag. a flat stone slab used especially for paving.
- flamingos — Plural form of flamingo.
- flash gun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flashbang — Alternative form of flash-bang.
- flashguns — Plural form of flashgun.
- flatlings — with the flat side, as of a sword
- franglais — French spoken or written with a large admixture of English words, especially those of American origin.
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- fuselages — Plural form of fuselage.
- gaelicise — adapt to conform to Gaelic spelling and pronunciation
- gaelicism — a word, phrase or idiom peculiar to the Gaelic language
- gaff sail — an iron hook with a handle for landing large fish.
- gaitskell — Hugh Todd Naylor [ney-ler] /ˈneɪ lər/ (Show IPA), 1906–63, English economist and statesman: Labour party leader 1955–63.
- galactose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble hexose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained in its dextrorotatory form from milk sugar by hydrolysis and in its levorotatory form from mucilages.
- galatians — a book in the New Testament, written to the Christians in Galatia. Abbreviation: Gal.
- galesburg — a city in NW Illinois.