8-letter words containing g, u, i, l
- pugilist — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
- pulingly — in a complaining manner
- pupilage — the state or period of being a pupil; tutelage.
- purfling — to finish with an ornamental border.
- puzzling — confusing or baffling: a puzzling answer.
- quailing — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- qualming — the state of having a qualm
- quelling — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
- quilling — one of the large feathers of the wing or tail of a bird.
- quilting — a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
- quisling — a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government; fifth columnist.
- rail gun — a weapon consisting of a pair of parallel conductive rails, using a magnetic field and electric current to launch projectiles at very high velocity.
- reguline — of, relating to, or of the nature of, a regulus.
- regulize — to separate (ore) into regulus and pure metal
- rightful — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- ruffling — to beat (a drum) in this manner.
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- rustling — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- sculking — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- sculping — the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.
- singular — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- skulking — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- sludging — intravascular slowing or clumping of red blood cells.
- sluffing — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- slugging — a hard blow or hit, especially with a fist or baseball bat.
- sluggish — indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: a sluggish disposition.
- sluicing — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- slumming — Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- slurring — to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over): The report slurred over her contribution to the enterprise.
- solpugid — sun spider.
- squiggle — a short, irregular curve or twist, as in writing or drawing.
- squiggly — a short, irregular curve or twist, as in writing or drawing.
- squiggol — Bird-Meertens Formalism
- squilgee — squeegee.
- suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- sunlight — the light of the sun; sunshine.
- surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- tie plug — a wooden plug driven into the hole left in a tie when a spike has been withdrawn.
- tumbling — an act of tumbling or falling.
- tung oil — a yellow drying oil derived from the seeds of a tung tree, Aleurites fordii, used in varnishes, linoleum, etc.
- turingol — (language) A high-level language for programming Turing Machines by Donald Knuth. It was the subject of the first construction of a nontrivial attribute grammar.
- tussling — to struggle or fight roughly or vigorously; wrestle; scuffle.
- ugliness — very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
- ungainly — not graceful; awkward; unwieldy; clumsy: an ungainly child; an ungainly prose style.
- ungenial — unfriendly
- ungilded — covered or highlighted with gold or something of a golden color.
- unguilty — innocent
- unialgal — of, relating to, or derived from a single algal cell.
- unkingly — not appropriate to a king