11-letter words containing g, l, o, s
- fleshmonger — (archaic) One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp, procurer, or pander.
- 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
- flourishing — growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous: a flourishing little business.
- flowingness — the quality of being flowing
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- 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
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- fool's gold — iron or copper pyrites, sometimes mistaken for gold.
- footslogged — Simple past tense and past participle of footslog.
- footslogger — Common term for a foot soldier. A person who footslogs.
- foreclosing — Present participle of foreclose.
- foreglimpse — a revelation or glimpse of the future.
- formalising — Present participle of formalise.
- formulising — formulate.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- fossilizing — Present participle of fossilize.
- fossilology — The study of fossils.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- fosterlings — Plural form of fosterling.
- frogs' legs — (esp in France) the legs of a frog prepared to be eaten, often by frying in butter and garlic
- galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
- gallowglass — a follower and supporter of or a soldier owing allegiance to an Irish chief.
- gallowsness — the quality of being bold or reckless
- ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- garrulously — In a garrulous manner.
- gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- 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.
- genealogies — A line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor.
- genealogist — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
- genesiology — (obsolete) The study of generation (reproduction).
- genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- gentlefolks — (nonstandard) gentlefolk.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- 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.
- geosyncline — a portion of the earth's crust subjected to downward warping during a large span of geologic time; a geosynclinal fold.
- 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.
- gibson girl — the idealized American girl of the 1890s as represented in the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson.
- glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
- glamorously — In a glamorous manner.
- glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.