9-letter words containing l, g, u
- gardenful — An amount sufficient to fill a garden.
- garfunkel — Arthur ("Art") born 1942, U.S. singer.
- garrulity — the quality of being garrulous; talkativeness; loquacity.
- garrulous — excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters.
- gastrular — Of or pertaining to a gastrula.
- gastrulas — Plural form of gastrula.
- gaugamela — an ancient village in Assyria, E of Nineveh: Alexander the Great defeated Darius III here in 331 b.c. The battle is often mistakenly called “battle of Arbela.”.
- gaugeable — Capable of being gauged.
- gauleiter — the leader or chief official of a political district under Nazi control.
- gauntlets — Plural form of gauntlet.
- gauss law — the principle that the total electric flux of a closed surface in an electric field is equal to 4π times the electric charge inside the surface.
- gauzelike — Like or resembling gauze.
- gazankulu — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in South Africa; abolished in 1993. Capital: Giyani
- gelsemium — the dried rhizome and root of yellow jasmine, formerly used as a sedative in the form of a powder, tincture, or fluid extract.
- gemutlich — comfortable and pleasant; cozy.
- genicular — of or relating to the knee
- genuflect — to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship.
- genuinely — possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real: genuine sympathy; a genuine antique.
- gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
- gerundial — (in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”. See also gerundive (def 1).
- ginglymus — a joint in which movement is limited to one plane.
- gjellerup — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1857–1919, Danish novelist: Nobel Prize 1917.
- glabellum — glabella.
- gladiolus — any plant of the genus Gladiolus, of the iris family, native especially to Africa, having erect, sword-shaped leaves and spikes of flowers in a variety of colors.
- glamorous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- glamoured — Simple past tense and past participle of glamour.
- glamourie — Alternative spelling of glamoury.
- glandular — consisting of, containing, or bearing glands.
- glandules — Plural form of glandule.
- glassfuls — Plural form of glassful.
- glaucodot — a mineral, iron and cobalt sulfarsenide, (Co,Fe)AsS, occurring in grayish-white crystals.
- glee club — a chorus organized for singing choral music.
- gleefully — full of exultant joy; merry; delighted.
- globulins — Plural form of globulin.
- globulite — (mineral) A rudimentary spherical form of crystallite.
- globulous — globe-shaped; spherical.
- glomerous — (obsolete) Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
- glomerule — a cyme condensed into a headlike cluster.
- glomeruli — Irregular plural form of glomerulus.
- glow plug — a device for each cylinder of a diesel engine with a heating element to heat the incoming fuel and air so that combustion will take place more readily when the engine is cold.
- gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
- glucoside — any of an extensive group of compounds that yield glucose and some other substance or substances when treated with a dilute acid or decomposed by a ferment or enzyme.
- gluemaker — A manufacturer of glue.
- glueyness — the state of being gluey
- gluggable — (of wine) easy and pleasant to drink
- glulisine — A rapid-acting insulin analogue.
- glutamate — a salt or ester of glutamic acid.
- glutamine — a crystalline amino acid, HOOCCH(NH 2)CH 2 CH 2 CONH 2 , related to glutamic acid. Symbol: Q. Abbreviation: Gln;
- glutenous — like gluten.
- glutinant — a nematocyst that discharges a thread covered with a sticky secretion.