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12-letter words containing l, a, i, d

  • galahad, sir — Sir Arthurian Romance. the noblest and purest knight of the Round Table, son of Lancelot and Elaine: gained the Holy Grail.
  • gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
  • gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
  • ganglionated — gangliate.
  • gangliosides — Plural form of ganglioside.
  • garand rifle — M-1.
  • garden snail — Zoology
  • garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
  • gas cylinder — container for storing gas
  • gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
  • genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
  • geodetically — pertaining to geodesy.
  • gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
  • giant lizard — a monitor lizard, Varanus komodoensis, of certain Indonesian islands E of Java, that grows to a length of 10 feet (3 meters): the largest lizard in the world; now rare.
  • glad tidings — Glad tidings means good news.
  • gladiatorial — of or relating to gladiators or to their combats.
  • gladiatorian — (dated) Of or relating to gladiators or to combat in general; gladiatorial.
  • glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
  • glass lizard — 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.
  • glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
  • 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.
  • glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
  • glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
  • glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
  • 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-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 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)
  • 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.
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
  • gradeflation — grade inflation.
  • gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
  • grand finale — the concluding portion of a performance or entertainment, as a musical show, rodeo, etc., usually spectacular and involving most or all of the prior participants.
  • grand island — a city in S Nebraska.
  • grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
  • griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
  • grimaldi man — a type of Aurignacian man having a negroid appearance, thought to be a race of Cro-Magnon man
  • grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
  • guadalquivir — a river in S Spain, flowing W to the Gulf of Cádiz. 374 miles (602 km) long.
  • gutturalized — pronounced with guttural coarticulation.
  • habilimented — Clothed.
  • half binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
  • half holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
  • half landing — a landing halfway up a flight of stairs
  • half-binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
  • half-holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
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