11-letter words containing g, l, o, s, t
- dog-whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- doggy style — of sexual intercourse, a position whereby the female is on all fours and the male is behind her
- dyslogistic — conveying disapproval or censure; not complimentary or eulogistic.
- eagle scout — a boy scout who has achieved the highest rank in U.S. scouting.
- egotistical — Excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself; self-centered.
- elongations — Plural form of elongation.
- eschatology — The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
- estranghelo — an archaic, cursive form of the Syriac alphabet
- ethnologist — One who practices ethnology.
- etymologies — Plural form of etymology.
- etymologise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of etymologize.
- etymologist — A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words).
- float glass — extremely smooth, nearly distortion-free plate glass manufactured by pouring molten glass onto a surface of molten tin.
- floodlights — Plural form of floodlight.
- flote grass — an aquatic perennial grass, Glyceria fluitans, whose metre-long stems and pale green leaves are often seen floating in still or sluggish water. The related sweet grass (G. plicata) has broader, darker leaves and owes its name to the fact that cattle like to eat it
- flying-spot — denoting an electronic system in which a rapidly moving spot of light is used to encode or decode data, for example to obtain a television signal by scanning a photographic film or slide
- footslogged — Simple past tense and past participle of footslog.
- footslogger — Common term for a foot soldier. A person who footslogs.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- fosterlings — Plural form of fosterling.
- galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- gastrocolic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and colon.
- gastroliths — Plural form of gastrolith.
- gemmologist — the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstones.
- gemologists — Plural form of gemologist.
- genealogist — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
- genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
- gentlefolks — (nonstandard) gentlefolk.
- geopolitics — the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
- geotextiles — Plural form of geotextile.
- gestational — the process, state, or period of gestating.
- gestatorial — related to carrying
- ghostliness — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
- glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
- 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.
- gliomatosis — excessive growth of neuroglia in the brain or spinal cord
- gloss paint — Gloss paint is paint that forms a shiny surface when it dries.
- glossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of all or part of the tongue.
- glutinosity — The quality of being glutinous or viscous.
- glutinously — In a glutinous manner.
- glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- goat island — an island in the Niagara River in W New York, in the middle of Niagara Falls, dividing the American Falls from the Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls.
- goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- gospel oath — an oath sworn on the Gospels
- gouty stool — a footstool of the 18th century having a top adjustable to a variety of angles.