11-letter words containing l, g, u
- genouillere — jointed armour for protecting the knees
- genu valgum — knock-knee.
- genuflected — Simple past tense and past participle of genuflect.
- genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
- 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.
- gill fungus — an agaricaceous fungus; mushroom.
- gladfulness — The quality of being gladful.
- glamorously — In a glamorous manner.
- glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
- glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
- glamourpuss — a glamorous person, esp a woman
- 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.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
- glauconitic — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
- glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
- gleefulness — The state of being gleeful or joyous.
- glen burnie — a city in E central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
- glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- glutathione — a crystalline, water-soluble peptide of glutamic acid, cysteine, and glycine, C 10 H 17 N 3 O 6 S, found in blood and in animal and plant tissues, and important in tissue oxidations and in the activation of some enzymes.
- gluten-free — (of food, a diet, etc) not containing gluten
- glutinosity — The quality of being glutinous or viscous.
- glutinously — In a glutinous manner.
- glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
- go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
- go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
- god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- golden hour — the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving
- golden rule — a rule of ethical conduct, usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” or, as in the Sermon on the Mount, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Matt. 7:12; Luke 6:31.
- golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
- gouty stool — a footstool of the 18th century having a top adjustable to a variety of angles.
- gradualness — The condition of being gradual.
- grammalogue — a word symbolized by a sign or letter.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- granularity — of the nature of granules; grainy.
- granulating — Present participle of granulate.