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11-letter words containing g, o, e, l

  • gestational — the process, state, or period of gestating.
  • gestatorial — related to carrying
  • get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • ghostliness — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
  • gilliflower — any of several plants of various families with clove-scented flowers, as the carnation
  • gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
  • gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
  • glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
  • glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
  • glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
  • glasshouses — Plural form of glasshouse.
  • glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
  • glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
  • glide slope — the angle that the glidepath of an aircraft or spacecraft makes with the horizontal.
  • global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
  • globe valve — a valve with a globular body, closed by a disk seating on an opening in an internal wall.
  • globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
  • globeflower — any of several plants belonging to the genus Trollius, of the buttercup family, as T. laxus, of North America, having rounded, yellowish flowers.
  • globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
  • glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
  • glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
  • glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
  • glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
  • glory years — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
  • glossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of all or part of the tongue.
  • glottalized — pronounced with glottal coarticulation.
  • glove maker — someone who makes gloves
  • glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
  • glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
  • glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
  • glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
  • glumiferous — having glumes
  • glutathione — a crystalline, water-soluble peptide of glutamic acid, cysteine, and glycine, C 10 H 17 N 3 O 6 S, found in blood and in animal and plant tissues, and important in tissue oxidations and in the activation of some enzymes.
  • glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
  • glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
  • glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).
  • glyoxysomes — Plural form of glyoxysome.
  • glyptotheca — a space devoted to sculpture
  • gnamma hole — a hollow in bare rock, narrow at the opening and wider at the bottom, in which water collects.
  • go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
  • go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
  • go it alone — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
  • go-it-alone — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • goal crease — crease1 (def 4).
  • goal scorer — somebody who scores goals
  • goalkeepers — Plural form of goalkeeper.
  • goalkeeping — The art of a goalkeeper.
  • goalscorers — Plural form of goalscorer.
  • goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
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