11-letter words containing g, l, o, s, e
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
- groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- guelderrose — snowball (sense 2)
- guillotines — Plural form of guillotine.
- hasta luego — so long; (I'll) see you soon
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- heresiology — the study of heresies.
- hieroglyphs — Plural form of hieroglyph.
- hornswoggle — to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
- horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
- hot-selling — (of a good or product) that sells in large numbers
- hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
- houselights — (plural only) The lights that illuminate the audience section of an auditorium or theatre.
- hylogenesis — the formation or coming into being of matter
- hysterology — (obsolete) A scientific study, or treatise on the uterus.
- ideologists — Plural form of ideologist.
- ignobleness — The state or condition of being ignoble.
- ilog solver — A commercial constraint programming system.
- ingeniously — characterized by cleverness or originality of invention or construction: an ingenious machine.
- ingenuously — free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
- insectology — entomology.
- irreligious — not religious; not practicing a religion and feeling no religious impulses or emotions.
- joggle post — a wooden king post having notches or raised areas for receiving and supporting the feet of struts.
- keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- kinesiology — the science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to movement.
- king closer — a brick of regular length and thickness, used in building corners, having a long bevel from a point on one side to one about halfway across the adjacent end.
- langoustine — a large prawn, Nephrops norvegicus, used for food.
- last gospel — in the order of service for the Mass, the final reading of a Gospel lesson.
- legal costs — the costs of a court action; the judge decides which side should pay them
- legatissimo — to be performed as smoothly and connectedly as possible
- legionaries — Plural form of legionary.
- legislation — the act of making or enacting laws.
- legislators — Plural form of legislator.
- lemon grass — any of several lemon-scented grasses of the genus Cymbopogon, especially C. citratus, of tropical regions, yielding lemon-grass oil.
- lentiginose — (botany) Bearing numerous dots resembling freckles.
- lentiginous — of or relating to a lentigo.
- levoglucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- ligamentous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a ligament.
- light horse — cavalry carrying light arms and equipment.
- lighthouses — Plural form of lighthouse.
- lightsomely — (archaic) In a lightsome manner.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- lipogenesis — (biochemistry) The biochemical production of fat, especially the conversion of carbohydrate into fat so that it may be stored as a long-term source of energy when food is scarce.
- lithogenous — of or relating to organisms, as coral, that secrete stony deposits.
- livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.