8-letter words containing g, l, u
- mucilage — any of various, usually liquid, preparations of gum, glue, or the like, used as an adhesive.
- muddling — Present participle of muddle.
- muffling — Present participle of muffle.
- mulching — (agriculture) Used for applying a mulch.
- mulcting — Present participle of mulct.
- mulligan — Gerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927–96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
- mullings — Plural form of mulling.
- multiage — Concerning more than one age.
- multigym — A gym consisting of several items of weightlifting apparatus.
- mumblage — /muhm'bl*j/ The topic of one's mumbling (see mumble). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when "mumble" is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
- mumbling — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
- muscling — Present participle of muscle.
- musingly — absorbed in thought; meditative.
- muzzling — the mouth, or end for discharge, of the barrel of a gun, pistol, etc.
- naughtly — (obsolete) naughtily; wrongly.
- nebelung — a breed of cat with a long body, long silky bluish hair, and a plumelike tail
- ngultrum — a paper money, cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of Bhutan, equal to 100 chetrums.
- nibelung — any of a race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure captured by Siegfried.
- nonguilt — the state of being innocent or not guilty
- nursling — an infant, child, or young animal being nursed or being cared for by a nurse.
- nutgalls — Plural form of nutgall.
- nuzzling — Present participle of nuzzle.
- oblongum — (geometry, archaic) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
- ocmulgee — a river in NW Georgia, flowing SE to join the Oconee River and form the Altamaha River. 255 miles (410 km) long.
- okmulgee — a city in E Oklahoma.
- oliguria — scantiness of urine due to diminished secretion.
- oliguric — of or relating to oliguria
- one-lung — having or equipped with only one lung.
- orgulous — Archaic. haughty; proud.
- outbulge — to bulge outwards
- outfling — (intransitive) To fling outward.
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- outlaugh — (transitive) To ridicule or laugh someone out of a purpose, principle, etc.; laugh down; discourage or put out of countenance by laughing.
- outlying — lying at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way: outlying military posts.
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pill bug — any of various small terrestrial isopods, especially of the genera Armadillidium and Oniscus, which can roll themselves up into a spherical shape.
- plaguing — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- plug hat — plug (def 19).
- plugging — a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
- plughole — drainage hole in sink or bath
- plugless — having no plug
- plugugly — a ruffian; rowdy; tough.
- plumbago — graphite.
- plumbing — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plunging — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- plussage — a surplus amount.
- polydrug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- prologue — a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.