8-letter words containing g, l, u
- eulogist — A speaker who delivers a funeral oration (eulogy) for a deceased person.
- eulogium — eulogy
- eulogize — Praise highly in speech or writing.
- evulgate — to make public; to divulge
- exulting — Present participle of exult.
- fall guy — an easy victim.
- faulting — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- feldgrau — the shade of grey worn by German soldiers in World War II
- feruling — Present participle of ferule.
- figuline — A piece of pottery decorated with representations of natural objects.
- fireplug — fire hydrant.
- flag out — to register (a commercial vehicle) in a country other than the one in which it operates, usually in order to take advantage of favourable rates of taxation
- flashgun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flat bug — any of numerous flattened bugs of the family Aradidae, inhabiting the underside of bark and feeding on fungi.
- flit gun — a handheld, pump action sprayer for liquid insecticide.
- flouring — Present participle of flour.
- flouting — Openly disregard (a rule, law or convention).
- flubbing — Present participle of flub.
- flue gas — the smoke in the uptake of a boiler fire: it consists mainly of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen
- fluffing — light, downy particles, as of cotton.
- flunking — Present participle of flunk.
- flurting — Present participle of flurt.
- flushing — a flushed bird or flock of birds.
- flutings — Plural form of fluting.
- fluxgate — (physics) Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- fuddling — Present participle of fuddle.
- fudgicle — An ice-cream (on a stick) flavoured with fudge.
- fuelling — combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
- fugleman — (formerly) a soldier placed in front of a military company as a good model during training drills.
- fuglemen — Plural form of fugleman.
- fulgency — the quality of being fulgent; resplendence; brightness
- fulgural — of or relating to lightning
- fumbling — to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
- fumingly — In a rage.
- fungible — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
- furlongs — Plural form of furlong.
- furlough — Military. a vacation or leave of absence granted to an enlisted person.
- fuselage — the complete central structure to which the wing, tail surfaces, and engines are attached on an airplane.
- gag rule — any rule restricting open discussion or debate concerning a given issue, especially in a deliberative body.
- gainfull — Archaic form of gainful.
- galbanum — a gum resin with a peculiar, strong odor, obtained from certain Asian plants of the genus Ferula, used in incense and formerly in medicine.
- galbulus — A fleshy seed-producing cone of junipers and cypresses.
- galerius — full name Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus. ?250–311 ad, Eastern Roman Emperor (305–311): noted for his persecution of Christians
- gallnuts — Plural form of gallnut.
- gallused — held up by galluses; having galluses
- galluses — a pair of suspenders for trousers.
- galumphs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of galumph.
- gastfull — dismal; dreary
- gastrula — a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.