6-letter words containing l, i, a
- gimbal — Sometimes, gimbal. a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped.
- gimmal — any of various joints for transmitting motion between rotating parts, as in a timepiece.
- gingal — a large musket fired from a rest, often mounted on a carriage: formerly used in India, China, etc.
- glacis — a gentle slope.
- glaire — to coat with glair.
- glairs — the white of an egg.
- glairy — of the nature of glair; viscous.
- glaive — a sword or broadsword.
- glinka — Mikhail Ivanovich [mi-kah-eel i-vah-nuh-vich;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /mɪ kɑˈil ɪˈvɑ nə vɪtʃ;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1803–57, Russian composer.
- glioma — a tumor of the brain composed of neuroglia.
- gloria — Liturgy. Gloria in Excelsis Deo. Gloria Patri. the response Gloria tibi, Domine, “Glory be to Thee, O Lord.”.
- goalie — a goalkeeper.
- golias — to behave outrageously
- grails — Plural form of grail.
- habile — skillful; dexterous; adroit.
- hailed — to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.
- hailer — to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
- halevi — Judah, Judah ha-Levi.
- halide — a chemical compound in which one of the elements is a halogen.
- halier — a monetary unit of Slovakia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a koruna.
- haling — to compel (someone) to go: to hale a man into court.
- halite — a soft white or colorless mineral, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring in cubic crystals with perfect cleavage; rock salt.
- hallie — a female given name.
- haloid — Also, halogenoid [hal-uh-juh-noid, hey-luh-] /ˈhæl ə dʒəˌnɔɪd, ˈheɪ lə-/ (Show IPA). resembling or derived from a halogen.
- hamill — Dorothy (Stuart) born 1956, U.S. figure skater.
- hamlin — Hannibal, 1809–91, U.S. political leader: vice president of the U.S. 1861–65.
- hamuli — Plural form of hamulus.
- haveli — A mansion.
- hazily — characterized by the presence of haze; misty: hazy weather.
- heliac — pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.
- hiatal — a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
- hiemal — of or relating to winter; wintry.
- hilary — Hilarius, Saint.
- holmia — the oxide of holmium
- hyalin — Also, hyalin, H04/H0454500 hahy-uh-lin, ˈhaɪ ə lɪn. Biochemistry. a horny substance found in hydatid cysts, closely resembling chitin. a structureless, transparent substance found in cartilage, the eye, etc., resulting from the pathological degeneration of tissue.
- ideals — a conception of something in its perfection.
- ilesha — a town in SW Nigeria.
- iligan — a city in the Philippines, a port on the N coast of Mindanao. Pop: 306 000 (2005 est)
- illiac — Assembly language for the ILLIAC computer. Listed in CACM 2(5):16, (May 1959) p.16.
- illiad — a wink
- impala — an African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, the male of which has ringed, lyre-shaped horns.
- impale — to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
- imparl — to confer with the opposing party in a lawsuit with a view to settling the dispute amicably, out of court.
- imphal — a state in NE India between Assam and Burma. 8620 sq. mi. (22,326 sq. km). Capital: Imphal.
- in all — the whole of (used in referring to quantity, extent, or duration): all the cake; all the way; all year.
- in alt — in the octave directly above the treble staff
- in-law — a relative by marriage.
- inable — (obsolete, now nonstandard) Unable, not able.
- incall — A visit by a client to a prostitute.
- infall — The falling of small objects or other matter onto or into a larger body.