10-letter words containing l, o, g, i
- glycolipid — any of a class of lipids, comprising the cerebrosides and gangliosides, that upon hydrolysis yield galactose or a similar sugar, a fatty acid, and sphingosine or dihydrosphingosine.
- glycolysis — the catabolism of carbohydrates, as glucose and glycogen, by enzymes, with the release of energy and the production of lactic or pyruvic acid.
- glycolytic — of, relating to, or causing glycolysis.
- glycosides — Plural form of glycoside.
- glycosidic — any of the class of compounds that yield a sugar and an aglycon upon hydrolysis.
- glycosuria — excretion of glucose in the urine, as in diabetes.
- glyoxaline — imidazole.
- gnome-like — resembling a gnome
- gnomically — In a gnomic manner. (In a way apparently clear and simple, but eventually difficult to understand).
- gnomonical — Alternative form of gnomonic.
- gnosiology — Alternative form of gnoseology.
- go quietly — If someone does not go quietly, they do not leave a particular job or a place without complaining or resisting.
- go walkies — to be lost or stolen
- goalkicker — a person who makes a goal kick
- gold basis — a gold standard as a basis for prices.
- gold braid — a gold-coloured braid which is used to decorate uniforms
- gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- gold field — an area or district where gold is mined.
- gold point — the point at which it is equally expensive to buy, sell, export, import, or exchange gold in adjustment of foreign claims or counterclaims.
- gold stick — the gilded rod carried on state occasions by certain members of the royal household.
- golda meir — Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- golddigger — Alternative spelling of gold digger.
- goldfields — any of several Californian, composite herbs of the genus Lasthenia, having yellow flowers.
- goldfishes — Plural form of goldfish.
- goldilocks — (used with a singular verb) a person with golden hair.
- goldsmiths — Plural form of goldsmith.
- goldwynism — a phrase or statement involving a humorous and supposedly unintentional misuse of idiom, as “Keep a stiff upper chin,” especially such a statement attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, as “Include me out.”.
- golf links — 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.
- golf widow — a woman whose husband frequently leaves her alone while he plays golf.
- golgi body — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
- goliardery — one of a class of wandering scholar-poets in Germany, France, and England, chiefly in the 12th and 13th centuries, noted as the authors of satirical Latin verse written in celebration of conviviality, sensual pleasures, etc.
- goliathise — to play Goliath, exaggerate extravagantly
- goliathize — to exaggerate extravagantly
- goloptious — voluptuous
- gondoliers — Plural form of gondolier.
- good title — a title to real property that is free from encumbrances, litigation, and other defects and that can readily be sold or mortgaged to a reasonable buyer or mortgagee.
- goodlihead — goodness; good appearance
- goodliness — of good or substantial size, amount, etc.: a goodly sum.
- goodwilled — possessing goodwill
- googillion — (informal, hyperbole) An indefinitely large number.
- gooseliver — smoked liver sausage
- gorbellied — a protruding belly.
- gospellize — to evangelise
- gothically — In a gothic way.
- graciously — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- granulosis — a disease that predominantly affects larval Lepidoptera and which causes loss of appetite and sluggishness
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- gressorial — adapted for walking, as the feet of some birds.
- gridlocked — Simple past tense and past participle of gridlock.
- grievously — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.