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11-letter words containing l, a, e, g

  • geometrical — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
  • geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
  • geotactical — relating to geotaxis
  • gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
  • gestational — the process, state, or period of gestating.
  • gestatorial — related to carrying
  • 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 laugh — If a person or their comment gets a laugh or raises a laugh, they make the people listening to them laugh.
  • 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.
  • get-at-able — accessible
  • ghastliness — The state of being ghastly.
  • giant eland — a similar but larger animal, T. derbianus, living in wooded areas of central and W Africa
  • gilded cage — a place where someone appears to live in luxury but where he or she has very little freedom
  • girdlestead — the waist
  • give battle — to commence fighting
  • glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
  • 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.
  • glad-hander — to greet warmly.
  • gladfulness — The quality of being gladful.
  • glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
  • glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
  • 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.
  • glass maker — the art of making glass or glassware.
  • glass snake — any limbless, snakelike lizard of the genus Ophisaurus, inhabiting the eastern U.S., Europe, and Asia, having external ear openings and the ability to regenerate its long, fragile tail.
  • glass-faced — having the front or outer surfaces covered with glass.
  • glass-maker — the art of making glass or glassware.
  • glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
  • glasscutter — a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass, having a cutting wheel of steel or tungsten carbide and notches for snapping the glass
  • glasshouses — Plural form of glasshouse.
  • glassmakers — Plural form of glassmaker.
  • glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
  • glassy-eyed — having a dull, dazed, or uncomprehending expression; staring fixedly.
  • glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
  • glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
  • glens falls — a city in E New York, on the Hudson River.
  • 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.
  • glitterball — Synonym of mirrorball.
  • global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
  • globe valve — a valve with a globular body, closed by a disk seating on an opening in an internal wall.
  • globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
  • glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
  • glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
  • glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
  • glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
  • glory years — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
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