9-letter words containing g, s, l
- ghostlily — In a ghostly way.
- gigaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.
- gilchrist — Adam (Craig). born 1971, Australian cricketer; a wicketkeeper-batsman, he took an Australian-record 416 dismissals in tests (1999–2008) and a world-record 472 dismissals in ODIs (1996–2008); his 33 international centuries is a record for a wicketkeeper
- gilgamesh — a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics.
- gill slit — branchial cleft.
- gillespie — John Birks [burks] /bɜrks/ (Show IPA), ("Dizzy") 1917–93, U.S. jazz trumpeter and composer.
- gilsonite — an extremely pure asphalt particularly valuable for the manufacture of paints and varnishes.
- giltheads — Plural form of gilthead.
- gin sling — an iced drink made from gin and water, sweetened, and flavoured with lemon or lime juice
- ginglymus — a joint in which movement is limited to one plane.
- gippsland — a fertile region of SE Australia, in SE Victoria, extending east along the coast from Melbourne to the New South Wales border. Area: 35 200 sq km (13 600 sq miles)
- girlishly — In a girlish manner.
- glaciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glaciate.
- glad rags — You can refer to clothes that you wear to parties and other special occasions as your glad rags.
- gladiolus — any plant of the genus Gladiolus, of the iris family, native especially to Africa, having erect, sword-shaped leaves and spikes of flowers in a variety of colors.
- gladsheim — the golden palace of Odin, of which Valhalla was a part.
- gladstone — William Ewart [yoo-ert] /ˈyu ərt/ (Show IPA), 1809–98, British statesman: prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894.
- glamorise — (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ) alternative spelling of glamorize.
- glamorous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- glandless — Without glands.
- glandules — Plural form of glandule.
- glariness — Quality of being glary; a dazzling brilliancy.
- glaserite — (mineral) A saline evaporite, consisting of potassium sulphate.
- glasphalt — a road-surfacing material composed of asphalt and crushed glass.
- glass can — a short squat beer bottle
- glass eel — elver.
- glass eye — artificial eye.
- glass jaw — a person's jaw, especially that of a boxer, that is vulnerable to even a light blow.
- glass pox — alastrim, or mild smallpox.
- glass tty — /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both: like a printing terminal, it can't do fancy display hacks, and like a display terminal, it doesn't produce hard copy. An example is the early "dumb" version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3 (without cursor control). See tube, tty; compare dumb terminal, smart terminal. See "TV Typewriters" for an interesting true story about a glass tty.
- glassboro — a borough in SW New Jersey.
- glassfish — any small, transparent marine, brackish, or freshwater fishes of the genus Chanda (or Ambassis), native to Africa and the Indo-Pacific region and popular in home aquariums.
- glassfuls — Plural form of glassful.
- glassiest — Superlative form of glassy.
- glassless — Without glass.
- glasslike — a hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substance produced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica and silicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the ordinary variety used for windows and bottles.
- glassware — Ornaments and articles made from glass.
- glasswork — the manufacture of glass and glassware.
- glassworm — arrowworm.
- glasswort — any of several plants of the genus Salicornia, of the amaranth family, having succulent stems with rudimentary leaves, formerly used, when burned to ashes, as a source of soda for glassmaking.
- glaziness — the state of being glazy
- gleanings — the act of a person who gleans.
- glebeless — without glebe
- glimpsing — Present participle of glimpse.
- glissaded — Simple past tense and past participle of glissade.
- glissader — One who glissades.
- glissades — Plural form of glissade.
- glissandi — Plural form of glissando.
- glissando — performed with a gliding effect by sliding one or more fingers rapidly over the keys of a piano or strings of a harp.
- glistened — Simple past tense and past participle of glisten.