8-letter words containing l, a, g, e
- gaumless — gormless.
- gauntlet — a former punishment, chiefly military, in which the offender was made to run between two rows of men who struck at him with switches or weapons as he passed.
- gavelled — Simple past tense and past participle of gavel.
- gavelman — a gavelkind tenant
- gavelock — a spear or javelin
- gayelles — Plural form of gayelle.
- gazeless — to look steadily and intently, as with great curiosity, interest, pleasure, or wonder.
- gazelles — Plural form of gazelle.
- gealousy — Obsolete form of jealousy.
- gearless — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- gedaliah — the governor of Judah after its conquest by Babylon. II Kings 25:22–26.
- gelasius — (Giovanni de Gaeta) died 1119, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1118–19.
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- gelatine — a nearly transparent, faintly yellow, odorless, and almost tasteless glutinous substance obtained by boiling in water the ligaments, bones, skin, etc., of animals, and forming the basis of jellies, glues, and the like.
- gelatins — Plural form of gelatin.
- gelation — the process of gelling.
- geldable — (obsolete) Liable to the payment of taxes; subject to taxation.
- generall — Archaic spelling of general.
- generals — Plural form of general.
- genially — characterized by genius.
- genitals — Synonym of genitalia.
- geolatry — the worship of the earth
- geranial — a pale yellow, water-insoluble, liquid aldehyde, C 10 H 16 O, having a strong lemonlike odor, consisting in natural form of two isomers (citral a or geranial and citral b or neral) usually obtained from the oils of lemon and orange or synthetically: used chiefly in perfumery, flavoring, and the synthesis of vitamin A.
- geraniol — a colorless or pale-yellow terpene alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, with a geraniumlike odor, found in rose oil, soluble in alcohol and ether, insoluble in water: used in perfumes and flavors.
- germinal — being in the earliest stage of development: germinal ideas.
- gestalts — Plural form of gestalt.
- gestural — a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.: the gestures of an orator; a threatening gesture.
- gesualdo — Don Carlo [dawn kahr-law] /dɔn ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), Prince of Venosa [ve-naw-zah] /vɛˈnɔ zɑ/ (Show IPA), c1560–1613, Italian composer.
- get laid — have sex
- get real — Be realistic
- gettable — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- giftable — suitable for a gift.
- gilthead — any of several marine fishes having gold markings, as a sparid, Sparus auratus, of the Mediterranean Sea.
- gimbaled — Simple past tense and past participle of gimbal.
- girasole — an opal that reflects light in a bright luminous glow.
- giveable — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- glabella — the flat area of bone between the eyebrows, used as a craniometric point.
- glabrate — Zoology. glabrous.
- glaciate — to cover with ice or glaciers.
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glackens — William James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- glad eye — a friendly or interested glance, especially a flirtatious one.
- gladbeck — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W central Germany.
- gladdens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gladden.
- gladdest — Superlative form of glad.
- gladiate — having the shape of a sword; sword-shaped.
- gladness — feeling joy or pleasure; delighted; pleased: glad about the good news; glad that you are here.
- gladsome — giving or causing joy; delightful.
- gladvert — an advertisement that can be tailored to match the emotional state of the viewer
- glanders — a contagious disease chiefly of horses and mules but communicable to humans, caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas mallei and characterized by swellings beneath the jaw and a profuse mucous discharge from the nostrils.