11-letter words containing l, o, a, t
- glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
- glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
- glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
- glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
- gloss paint — Gloss paint is paint that forms a shiny surface when it dries.
- glottalized — pronounced with glottal coarticulation.
- 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.
- glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).
- glyptograph — an engraved or carved design, as on a gem.
- glyptotheca — a space devoted to sculpture
- go critical — (of a nuclear power station or reactor) to reach a state in which a nuclear-fission chain reaction becomes self-sustaining
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- go it alone — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go-it-alone — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- goaltenders — Plural form of goaltender.
- goaltending — goalkeeping.
- goat island — an island in the Niagara River in W New York, in the middle of Niagara Falls, dividing the American Falls from the Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls.
- gold-plated — secure, valuable
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- golden gate — a strait in W California, between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific. 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- gospel oath — an oath sworn on the Gospels
- gradational — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- grand total — final sum or amount
- granolithic — (of concrete) containing fine granite chippings or crushed granite, used to render floors and surfaces.
- granulation — the act or process of granulating.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- granulomata — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- graptolitic — relating to, or containing, graptolites
- grass cloth — a cloth made from plant fibres, such as jute or hemp
- gratulation — a feeling of joy.
- gratulatory — (archaic) congratulatory.
- great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
- great world — fashionable society and its way of life
- groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
- habilitator — to clothe or dress.
- haematocele — Alternative spelling of hematocele.
- haematology — (medicine) The scientific study of blood and blood-producing organs.
- haemolutein — (obsolete) bilirubin.
- hagiologist — A writer on the lives of the saints; a hagiographer.
- half-bottle — a bottle half the size of a standard bottle of wine, spirits, etc
- halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
- hall porter — concierge
- halo blight — a disease of plants, characterized by small, necrotic leaf or fruit lesions surrounded by a yellowish, halolike band, caused by any of several bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas.
- halo effect — a predisposition to admire all of a person's actions, work, etc., because of an estimable quality or action in the past.
- halogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of halogenate.
- haltom city — a city in N Texas, near Fort Worth.