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14-letter words containing g, l, i

  • gentian violet — a dye derived from rosaniline, used in chemistry as an indicator and in medicine as a fungicide, bactericide, anthelmintic, and in the treatment of burns.
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • geochronologic — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
  • geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
  • geographically — of or relating to geography.
  • geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
  • geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
  • geopolitically — According to geopolitics.
  • gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • get with child — to make pregnant
  • giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
  • gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
  • giovanni leone — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1908–2001, Italian political leader: prime minister 1963, 1968; president 1971–78.
  • girls' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
  • give sb a bell — If you give someone a bell, you telephone them.
  • glacial period — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • glancing angle — the angle between a ray incident on a plane surface and the surface, as of a beam of electrons incident on a crystal; the complement of the angle of incidence.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • glans-clitoris — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
  • global dimming — a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere
  • global village — the world, especially considered as the home of all nations and peoples living interdependently.
  • global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
  • globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
  • glottalisation — Alternative spelling of glottalization.
  • glottalization — (linguistics) The act or process of constricting or closing the glottis during the production of a speech sound that normally does not involve such constriction.
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • glucocorticoid — any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.
  • gluteus medius — the muscle of the buttocks lying between the gluteus maximus and the gluteus minimus, involved in the abduction of the thigh.
  • glycaemic load — an index indicating the amount of carbohydrate contained in a specified serving of a particular food. It is calculated by multiplying the food's glycaemic index by its carbohydrate content in grams and then dividing by 100
  • glycemic index — a system that ranks foods by the speeds at which their carbohydrates are converted into glucose in the body; a measure of the effects of foods on blood-sugar levels.
  • glycogenolysis — (biochemistry) The production of glucose-1-phosphate by splitting a glucose monomer from glycogen using inorganic phosphate.
  • glycogenolytic — Of, pertaining to, or capable of glycogenolysis, the catabolism of glycogen.
  • glycosidically — In a glycosidic manner; by means of a glycoside.
  • glyoxylic acid — a water-soluble crystalline compound, C 2 H 2 O 3 , that is an intermediate in photorespiration in plants.
  • go into detail — elaborate, recount more fully
  • gold medallist — the winner of competition or race, who is awarded a gold medal
  • golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • golden section — a ratio between two portions of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both: a ratio of approximately 0.618 to 1.000.
  • golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
  • golden wedding — the fiftieth anniversary of a wedding.
  • goliath beetle — any very large tropical scarabaeid beetle of the genus Goliathus, esp G. giganteus of Africa, which may grow to a length of 20 centimetres
  • goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
  • gone a million — done for; sunk
  • good-time girl — a young woman whose chief concern is seeking pleasure and having fun
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • google bombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
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