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9-letter words containing g, u, l

  • guerrilla — a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
  • guessable — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
  • guestlist — a list of guests invited to attend a social function.
  • guideless — to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
  • 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.
  • gulp down — food, drink: swallow quickly
  • gum elemi — elemi.
  • gum field — an area of land containing buried fossilized kauri gum
  • gum plant — gumweed.
  • gumshield — a plate or strip of soft waxy substance used by boxers to protect the teeth and gums
  • gun lobby — a group of people who argue for the right of members of the public to be able to own guns
  • gun-metal — any of various alloys or metallic substances with a dark gray or blackish color or finish, used for chains, belt buckles, etc.
  • gunbattle — A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire.
  • gunflints — Plural form of gunflint.
  • gunk hole — a quiet anchorage, as in a cove, used by small yachts.
  • gushingly — In a gushing manner; with overeffusive sentimentality.
  • gütersloh — a town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 95 928 (2003 est)
  • gutlessly — In a gutless way; with cowardice.
  • gutturals — Plural form of guttural.
  • haughtily — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
  • heat slug — (hardware, processor)   A metal plate that helps dissipate heat away from the silicon core of a processor to the packaging or heat-sink.
  • homologue — something homologous.
  • hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
  • housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
  • huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
  • hugeously — hugely
  • hungerful — hungry
  • huon gulf — a gulf of the Solomon Sea, on the E coast of New Guinea.
  • 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.
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