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11-letter words containing g, l, a, t

  • garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
  • garlic salt — salt flavoured with ground garlic
  • garmentless — Without garments.
  • garter belt — an undergarment of cloth or elastic, with attached garters, worn by women to hold up stockings.
  • gas lighter — device: produces flame
  • gaslighting — Present participle of gaslight.
  • gastrocolic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and colon.
  • gastroliths — Plural form of gastrolith.
  • gatling gun — an early type of machine gun consisting of a revolving cluster of barrels around a central axis, each barrel being automatically loaded and fired every revolution of the cluster.
  • gazillionth — (informal) The ordinal form of the number 'gazillion'.
  • geanticline — an anticlinal upwarp of regional extent.
  • gelatinated — Simple past tense and past participle of gelatinate.
  • gelatinized — Simple past tense and past participle of gelatinize.
  • gemmulation — the process of reproduction by gemmules.
  • genealogist — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
  • generalists — Plural form of generalist.
  • genetically — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
  • geniculated — Geniculate.
  • genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
  • genotypical — the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
  • gentianella — (botany) Any of the genus Gentianella of dwarf gentians.
  • gentilitial — relating to a gens or family
  • gentilitian — relating to a gens
  • gentlemanly — like, befitting, or characteristic of a gentleman.
  • gentlewoman — a woman of good family, breeding, or social position.
  • geolocation — the process of determining the location of an electronic device, as a computer, cell phone, satellite, etc.
  • geometrical — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
  • geotactical — relating to geotaxis
  • gestational — the process, state, or period of gestating.
  • gestatorial — related to carrying
  • 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
  • giant snail — any land snail of the genus Achatina and related genera, mostly of tropical Africa, having shells up to 9 inches (23 cm) high.
  • gigantology — the study or description of giants
  • girdlestead — the waist
  • give battle — to commence fighting
  • glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
  • glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
  • 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
  • glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
  • glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
  • glauconitic — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
  • gliomatosis — excessive growth of neuroglia in the brain or spinal cord
  • glitterball — Synonym of mirrorball.
  • glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
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