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9-letter words containing g, u, i, l

  • guideline — any guide or indication of a future course of action: guidelines on the government's future policy.
  • guildford — a city in S England, in Surrey: cathedral (1936–68); seat of the University of Surrey (1966). Pop: 69 400 (2001)
  • guildhall — (in Britain) the hall built or used by a guild or corporation for its assemblies; town hall.
  • guildship — guild (defs 1, 2).
  • guildsman — a member of a guild.
  • guildsmen — a member of a guild.
  • guileless — free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank.
  • guillaume — Charles Édouard [French sharl ey-dwar] /French ʃarl eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1861–1938, Swiss physicist: Nobel Prize 1920.
  • guillemet — one of two marks « or » used in French, Italian, and Russian printing to enclose quotations.
  • guillemin — Roger (Charles Louis) [roj-er chahrlz loo-ee;; French raw-zhey sharl lwee] /ˈrɒdʒ ər tʃɑrlz ˈlu i;; French rɔˈʒeɪ ʃarl lwi/ (Show IPA), born 1924, U.S. physiologist, born in France: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1977.
  • guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
  • guilloche — an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids.
  • guiltiest — Superlative form of guilty.
  • guiltless — free from guilt; innocent.
  • guiltware — /gilt'weir/ 1. A piece of freeware decorated with a message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money. 2. Shareware that works.
  • gull wing — an aircraft wing having a short upward-sloping inner section and a longer horizontal outer section
  • gull-like — any of numerous long-winged, web-toed, aquatic birds of the family Laridae, having usually white plumage with a gray back and wings.
  • gull-wing — (of an automobile door) hinged at the top and opening upward.
  • gum elemi — elemi.
  • gum field — an area of land containing buried fossilized kauri gum
  • gumshield — a plate or strip of soft waxy substance used by boxers to protect the teeth and gums
  • gunflints — Plural form of gunflint.
  • gushingly — In a gushing manner; with overeffusive sentimentality.
  • haughtily — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
  • housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
  • idealogue — One given to fanciful ideas or theories, someone who theorizes.
  • ideologue — a person who zealously advocates an ideology.
  • ill-usage — unfair, unkind, or cruel treatment; abuse
  • impulsing — Present participle of impulse.
  • in league — If you say that someone is in league with another person to do something bad, you mean that they are working together to do that thing.
  • inaugural — of or relating to an inauguration: Harding's inaugural address.
  • including — to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
  • indulgent — characterized by or showing indulgence; benignly lenient or permissive: an indulgent parent.
  • indulging — 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.
  • ingluvial — of or relating to an ingluvies
  • ingluvies — a dilation or pouch in the oesophagus of certain animals that receives food prior to the main stomach, esp a bird's craw, or the first stomach of a cow or other ruminating animal
  • insulting — giving or causing insult; characterized by affronting rudeness, insolence, etc.
  • iron lung — a chamberlike respirator, formerly used in the treatment of poliomyelitis, that encloses the whole body except the head and in which alternate pulsations of high and low pressure induce normal breathing movements or force air into and out of the lungs.
  • irregular — without symmetry, even shape, formal arrangement, etc.: an irregular pattern.
  • isologous — (of two or more organic compounds) chemically related but differing in composition other than by n CH 2 .
  • ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
  • judgelike — Resembling a judge or some aspect of one.
  • judgingly — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
  • junglists — Plural form of junglist.
  • juttingly — in a protruding or jutting manner
  • kali yuga — the fourth and present age of the world, full of conflict and sin.
  • kien lung — Ch'ien Lung.
  • kilogauss — a unit of magnetic induction, equal to 1000 gauss. Abbreviation: kG.
  • knuckling — Present participle of knuckle.
  • la guaira — a seaport in N Venezuela: the port of Caracas.
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