11-letter words containing g, s, l
- glass-faced — having the front or outer surfaces covered with glass.
- glass-maker — the art of making glass or glassware.
- glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
- glasscutter — a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass, having a cutting wheel of steel or tungsten carbide and notches for snapping the glass
- glasshouses — Plural form of glasshouse.
- glassmakers — Plural form of glassmaker.
- glassmaking — the art of making glass or glassware.
- glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
- glassy-eyed — having a dull, dazed, or uncomprehending expression; staring fixedly.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
- gleefulness — The state of being gleeful or joyous.
- glens falls — a city in E New York, on the Hudson River.
- glide slope — the angle that the glidepath of an aircraft or spacecraft makes with the horizontal.
- glimmerings — Plural form of glimmering.
- gliomatosis — excessive growth of neuroglia in the brain or spinal cord
- globalising — Present participle of globalise.
- globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
- glory years — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
- gloss paint — Gloss paint is paint that forms a shiny surface when it dries.
- glossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of all or part of the tongue.
- glossodynia — a condition characterized by a burning or tingling mouth region
- glossolalia — incomprehensible speech in an imaginary language, sometimes occurring in a trance state, an episode of religious ecstasy, or schizophrenia.
- 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.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- glutinosity — The quality of being glutinous or viscous.
- glutinously — In a glutinous manner.
- glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
- glycolipids — Plural form of glycolipid.
- 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.
- goal crease — crease1 (def 4).
- goal scorer — somebody who scores goals
- goalkeepers — Plural form of goalkeeper.
- goalscorers — Plural form of goalscorer.
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- goat island — an island in the Niagara River in W New York, in the middle of Niagara Falls, dividing the American Falls from the Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls.
- god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
- godlessness — The state of being godless.
- godlikeness — The quality of being godlike.
- golden rose — a gold, bejeweled ornament in the form of a rose or spray of roses, blessed and presented by the pope in recognition of service to the Holy See.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae