6-letter words containing i, g, l
- grimly — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- grisly — gristly.
- guilds — an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., especially one formed for mutual aid or protection.
- guiler — a deceiver
- guiles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of guile.
- guilin — a city in the NE Guangxi Zhuang region, in S China.
- guilts — the fact or state of having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; culpability: He admitted his guilt.
- guilty — having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty; culpable: The jury found her guilty of murder.
- gweilo — (ethnic slur) A Caucasian person, in China (generally a man); a ‘foreign devil’.
- haling — to compel (someone) to go: to hale a man into court.
- heling — Present participle of hele.
- higgle — to bargain, especially in a petty way; haggle.
- highly — in or to a high degree; extremely: highly amusing; highly seasoned food.
- holing — Present participle of hole.
- idling — not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
- igloos — Plural form of igloo.
- iligan — a city in the Philippines, a port on the N coast of Mindanao. Pop: 306 000 (2005 est)
- ingulf — engulf.
- isling — a small island.
- isolog — one of two or more isologous compounds.
- jiggle — a jiggling movement.
- jiggly — tending to jiggle or marked by a jiggling movement.
- jilgie — Alternative spelling of gilgie.
- jilong — Chilung.
- jingal — a large musket fired from a rest, often mounted on a carriage: formerly used in India, China, etc.
- jingle — to make clinking or tinkling sounds, as do coins, keys, or other light, resonant metal objects when coming into contact or being struck together repeatedly: The keys on his belt jingled as he walked.
- jingly — to make clinking or tinkling sounds, as do coins, keys, or other light, resonant metal objects when coming into contact or being struck together repeatedly: The keys on his belt jingled as he walked.
- jungli — the inhabitants of the jungle
- kigali — a republic in central Africa, E of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: formerly comprising the N part of the Belgian trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi; became independent 1962. 10,169 sq. mi. (26,338 sq. km). Capital: Kigali.
- kilerg — one thousand ergs
- kingle — a type of hard sandstone
- kingly — stately or splendid, as resembling, suggesting, or befitting a king; regal: He strode into the room with a kingly air.
- lacing — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lading — the act of lading.
- laggin — Usually, laggins. the staves at the bottom of a barrel, cask, or other hooped vessel.
- laking — Present participle of lake.
- laming — Present participle of lame.
- laogai — the system of forced-labor camps, prisons, etc., in China.
- lasing — the generation of coherent light by a laser.
- latigo — a leather strap on the saddletree of a Western saddle used to tighten and secure the cinch.
- laving — to wash; bathe.
- lawing — the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
- laying — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lazing — to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
- leg it — run, hurry
- leggie — a leg break
- leggin — a covering for the leg, usually extending from the ankle to the knee but sometimes higher, worn by soldiers, riders, workers, etc. Compare chaps, gaiter, puttee.
- leging — Present participle of lege.
- legion — a division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 soldiers.
- legist — an expert in law, especially ancient law.