10-letter words containing g, r, i, l
- fluttering — Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
- fly agaric — a very poisonous common woodland mushroom, Amanita muscaria, having a glossy red or orange cap with white spots, formerly a fly poison.
- fly-bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- folksinger — A person who sings folk songs.
- forclosing — Present participle of forclose.
- forgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- forgivably — In a forgivable way.
- fosterling — foster child.
- freezingly — (of temperatures) approaching, at, or below the freezing point.
- frightfull — Archaic form of frightful.
- frightless — (obsolete) Free from fright; fearless.
- frigmarole — a jocular term for foreplay when considered, esp from the man’s point of view, to be a tiresome prelude to the main event
- fringillid — Also, fringilline [frin-jil-ahyn, -in] /frɪnˈdʒɪl aɪn, -ɪn/ (Show IPA). belonging or pertaining to the family Fringillidae, comprising the finches and related birds.
- frolicking — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
- frowningly — While or as if frowning.
- frugalista — (informal) A person (especially a woman) who is fashionable while being thrifty.
- fulgurites — Plural form of fulgurite.
- full-grain — (of leather) having the original grain surface intact.
- funny girl — a woman who is funny or who is a comedienne
- gaillardia — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, including the blanket-flowers.
- gal friday — Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. a woman who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- galleryite — a spectator, as in a theater gallery or at a golf match.
- galvaniser — Alternative spelling of galvanizer.
- galvanizer — One who, or that which, galvanizes.
- gamer girl — a female video-game enthusiast.
- gamilaraay — Kamilaroi.
- gang drill — a drilling machine having a number of separately driven vertical spindles in a row, used for drilling holes in a piece successively.
- gangliform — having the form of a ganglion.
- gargoylish — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a gargoyle.
- gargoylism — a congenital abnormality characterized chiefly by dwarfism, grotesque deformities of the head, trunk, and limbs, mental retardation, and enlargement of the liver and spleen.
- garibaldis — Plural form of garibaldi.
- garlanding — Present participle of garland.
- gas liquor — ammonia liquor.
- gastralgia — neuralgia of the stomach.
- gastrolith — a calculous concretion in the stomach.
- gatlinburg — a town in E Tennessee: resort.
- gauleiters — Plural form of gauleiter.
- gaultheria — (botany) Any of the genus Gaultheria of evergreen ericaceous shrubs.
- generalise — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- generalism — Generalization: lack of specialization.
- generalist — a person whose knowledge, aptitudes, and skills are applied to a field as a whole or to a variety of different fields (opposed to specialist).
- generality — an indefinite, unspecific, or undetailed statement: to speak in generalities about human rights.
- generalize — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- germinally — By or involving germ cells.
- gesticular — pertaining to or characterized by gesticulation.
- gier-eagle — a bird, probably the Egyptian vulture, regarded as unclean. Lev. 11:18; Deut. 14:17.
- gigalitres — Plural form of gigalitre.
- gilbertian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the style or humor of Sir William S. Gilbert.
- gilbertine — a member of a Christian order founded in approximately 1135 by St Gilbert of Sempringham, composed of nuns who followed the Cistercian rule and Augustinian canons who ministered to them. It was the only religious order of English origin and never spread to Europe
- gill raker — (in fish) one of a series of stiff projections along the inner margins of the branchial arches that prevent food particles from passing through the branchial clefts.