8-letter words containing g, u, i, l
- gulosity — gluttony or greediness.
- gumboils — Plural form of gumboil.
- gumbotil — a sticky clay formed by the thorough weathering of glacial drift, the thickness of the clay furnishing means for comparing relative lengths of interglacial ages.
- gunflint — the flint in a flintlock.
- gurgling — to flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current: The water gurgled from the bottle.
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- guyliner — (informal) Eyeliner when used on men; usually associated with the goth and emo subcultures.
- guzzling — South Midland and Southern U.S. gozzle.
- housling — the growing of the climbing stem of the hop into a dense mass at the top of the poles which support it
- huddling — Present participle of huddle.
- humbling — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- hungrily — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hurdling — (athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
- hurtling — to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
- hustling — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
- illuding — Present participle of illude.
- implunge — to submerge
- indulged — to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
- indulger — to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
- indulges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indulge.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- inguinal — of, relating to, or situated in the groin.
- ingulfed — Simple past tense and past participle of ingulf.
- isologue — one of two or more isologous compounds.
- juggling — Continuously toss into the air and catch (a number of objects) so as to keep at least one in the air while handling the others, typically for the entertainment of others.
- jumbling — Present participle of jumble.
- junglist — A performer or enthusiast of jungle music.
- kaliyuga — the fourth and present age of the world, full of conflict and sin.
- kludging — Simple past tense and past participle of kludge.
- knulling — a convex molding having a series of members separated by indentations, as a bead and reel.
- knurling — a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
- lartigue — Jacques Henri [zhahk ahn-ree] /ʒɑk ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1894–1986, French photographer and painter.
- laughing — that laughs or is given to laughter: a laughing child.
- laughlin — James, IV, 1914–97, U.S. editor, publisher, and poet.
- ligature — the act of binding or tying up: The ligature of the artery was done with skill.
- light up — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- lightful — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- ligneous — of the nature of or resembling wood; woody.
- ligulate — having or forming a ligula.
- ligurian — an apparently Indo-European language used in ancient times along the NW coast of the Ligurian Sea.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- linguica — a highly spiced Portuguese garlic sausage.
- linguine — a type of pasta in long, slender, flat strips.
- linguini — a type of pasta in long, slender, flat strips.
- linguist — a specialist in linguistics.
- lingular — a tongue-shaped organ, process, or tissue.
- liturgic — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
- liu pang — 247–195 b.c, Chinese emperor: founder of the Han dynasty 202 b.c.