11-letter words containing i, g, l
- gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
- gesticulate — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- get a life! — (abuse) Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed to terminal geekdom. Often heard on Usenet, especially as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularised by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that ended "Get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.
- ghastliness — The state of being ghastly.
- ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
- ghostliness — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
- giambologna — Giovanni da [jee-uh-vah-nee duh;; Italian jaw-vahn-nee dah] /ˌdʒi əˈvɑ ni də;; Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), (Jean de Boulogne; Giambologna) c1525–1608, Italian sculptor, born in France.
- giant eland — a similar but larger animal, T. derbianus, living in wooded areas of central and W Africa
- giant snail — any land snail of the genus Achatina and related genera, mostly of tropical Africa, having shells up to 9 inches (23 cm) high.
- gibberellic — Describing gibberellic acid and its derivatives.
- gibberellin — any of a class of growth hormones occurring in fungi and plants.
- gibberingly — While gibbering; with wild, incoherent speech.
- gibson girl — the idealized American girl of the 1890s as represented in the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson.
- gigantology — the study or description of giants
- gilded cage — a place where someone appears to live in luxury but where he or she has very little freedom
- gill fungus — an agaricaceous fungus; mushroom.
- gill-netter — a person who uses a gill net in fishing.
- gilliflower — any of several plants of various families with clove-scented flowers, as the carnation
- gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- gimbal-ring — Sometimes, gimbal. a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped.
- gimlet-eyed — having penetrating and piercing eyes, and seeming to notice everything
- ginger lily — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hedychium, of the ginger family, native to Asia, especially the white ginger, H. coronarium, having white, fragrant flowers.
- girdlestead — the waist
- girl friday — gal Friday.
- girlfriends — Plural form of girlfriend.
- girlishness — The quality of being girlish.
- give battle — to commence fighting
- glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
- glacier bay — a national park in SE Alaska, made up of large tidewater glaciers. 4381 sq. mi. (11,347 sq. km).
- glacierized — Modified by the action of glaciers.
- glamorizing — Present participle of glamorize.
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
- glans penis — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- glaringness — The quality of being glaring.
- glass fiber — Glass fiber is another name for fiberglass.
- glass fibre — Glass fibre is another name for fibreglass.
- glassmaking — the art of making glass or glassware.
- glauconitic — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
- glazing-bar — a supporting or strengthening bar for a glass window, door, etc
- glen burnie — a city in E central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- glide plane — a symmetry element of a space group such that a reflection of the lattice with respect to the plane and a translation of the lattice parallel to the plane bring the lattice back to its original position.
- glide slope — the angle that the glidepath of an aircraft or spacecraft makes with the horizontal.
- glimepiride — A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug.
- glimmer ice — new ice formed in cracks, holes, or depressions in older ice.
- glimmerings — Plural form of glimmering.
- gliomatosis — excessive growth of neuroglia in the brain or spinal cord
- glitter ice — ice or a sheet of ice formed on a surface by a quickly freezing rain.
- glitterball — Synonym of mirrorball.
- globalising — Present participle of globalise.