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12-letter words containing l, a, g

  • glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
  • glassy alloy — a metal alloy having a noncrystalline, glasslike structure.
  • glassyheaded — smooth; bald
  • glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
  • glaucescence — the state of having bluish green coloration
  • glaucomatous — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
  • glaucousness — Quality of being glaucous.
  • glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
  • glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
  • glioblastoma — A highly invasive glioma in the brain.
  • global index — (filename extension)   (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
  • global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
  • gloria patri — the short hymn “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”.
  • glossarially — In the manner of a glossary.
  • glossematics — a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
  • glossography — a glossator.
  • glossolalist — One who exhibits glossolalia; one who speaks in tongues.
  • glossophobia — The fear of public speaking.
  • glossy snake — a nocturnal burrowing snake, Arizona elegans, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having smooth, glistening scales of tan with brown blotches.
  • glottal stop — a plosive consonant whose occlusion and release are accomplished chiefly at the glottis, as in the Scottish articulation of the t- sound of little, bottle, etc.
  • glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
  • gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
  • glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
  • glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
  • glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
  • glyphography — a plate-making process in which an electrotype is made from an engraved copper plate
  • glyptography — the description or study of engraved gems or other stones.
  • go ballistic — of or relating to ballistics.
  • go walkabout — to wander through the bush
  • goal average — the number of goals scored by a team divided by the number of goals it has conceded
  • godwin's law — (humour)   "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
  • godzillagram — (networking)   /god-zil'*-gram/ (From Japan's national hero and datagram) 1. A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine in the universe. The typical case is an IP datagram whose destination IP address is [255.255.255.255]. Fortunately, few gateways are foolish enough to attempt to implement this case! 2. A network packet of maximum size. An IP Godzillagram has 65,536 octets. Compare super source quench.
  • gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
  • gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • gold-plating — the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.
  • golden aster — any North American, asterlike, composite plant of the genus Chrysopsis, having bright, golden-yellow flower heads, as C. mariana, of the eastern U.S.
  • golden eagle — a large eagle, Aquila chrysaëtos, of the Northern Hemisphere, having golden-brown feathers on the back of the head and neck.
  • golden ratio — the ratio of two lengths, equal in value to (1 + √5)/2, and given by b/a = (b + a)/b; it is the reciprocal of the golden section and also equal to (1 + golden section)
  • golden share — a share in a company that controls at least 51% of the voting rights, esp one retained by the UK government in some privatization issues
  • golden stars — a plant, Bloomeria crocea, of the amaryllis family, native to southern California, having clusters of golden-orange, starlike flowers.
  • golden state — California (used as a nickname).
  • golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
  • goliath frog — the largest living frog, Rana goliath, which occurs in the Congo region of Africa and can grow to a length of 30 centimetres
  • gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
  • gondwanaland — a hypothetical landmass in the Southern Hemisphere that separated toward the end of the Paleozoic Era to form South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
  • gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.
  • good as gold — If you say that a child is being as good as gold, you are emphasizing that they are behaving very well and are not causing you any problems.
  • googleganger — a person with whom one shares one’s name, discovered when typing one’s name into an internet search engine
  • gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
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