8-letter words containing l, o, n, g
- glenwood — a town in SW Iowa.
- gloaming — twilight; dusk.
- gloating — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- globbing — Present participle of glob.
- globulin — any of a group of proteins, as myosin, occurring in plant and animal tissue, insoluble in pure water but soluble in dilute salt solutions and coagulable by heat.
- glomming — to steal.
- glomping — Present participle of glomp.
- glooming — total or partial darkness; dimness.
- glorying — Present participle of glory.
- glossina — tsetse fly.
- glossing — an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
- gloveman — fielder.
- gloxinia — any of several horticultural varieties of a plant belonging to the genus Sinningia, of the gesneria family, especially S. speciosa, having large white, red, or purple bell-shaped flowers.
- glucagon — a hormone secreted by the pancreas that acts in opposition to insulin in the regulation of blood glucose levels.
- glucogen — Alternative form of glycogen.
- glucosan — any of a number of polysaccharides that yield glucose upon hydrolysis.
- glucosin — any of a class of compounds, some of which are highly toxic, derived from reactions of glucose with ammonia.
- gluonium — glueball.
- gluttons — Plural form of glutton.
- gluttony — excessive eating and drinking.
- glycogen — a white, tasteless polysaccharide, (C 6 H 10 O 5) n , molecularly similar to starch, constituting the principal carbohydrate storage material in animals and occurring chiefly in the liver, in muscle, and in fungi and yeasts.
- glyconic — (of a line of verse) consisting of three trochees and one dactyl
- gnomical — Gnomic.
- go along — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go blank — If your mind goes blank, you are suddenly unable to think of anything appropriate to say, for example in reply to a question.
- goatling — a young goat
- gobbling — Present participle of gobble.
- goggling — Present participle of goggle.
- golconda — a ruined city in S India, near the modern city of Hyderabad: capital of a former Muslim kingdom; famous for its diamond cutting.
- goldenly — In a golden manner.
- goldmine — Alternative spelling of gold mine.
- goldtone — gold-coloured
- golfiana — golfing collectibles
- gondolas — Plural form of gondola.
- gonfalon — a banner suspended from a crossbar, often with several streamers or tails.
- gonzales — Richard Alonzo ("Pancho") 1928–1995, U.S. tennis player.
- gonzález — Julio (ˈxuljo). 1876–1942, Spanish sculptor: one of the first to create abstract geometric forms with soldered iron
- googling — Present participle of google.
- goslings — Plural form of gosling.
- grenoble — a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- grillion — an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- growling — Producing a growl.
- gun moll — a female companion of a criminal.
- gunkhole — a quiet anchorage, as in a cove, used by small yachts.
- gunlocks — Plural form of gunlock.
- halogens — Plural form of halogen.
- hand log — chip log.
- headlong — with the head foremost; headfirst: to plunge headlong into the water.
- hoagland — Edward, born 1932, U.S. novelist and essayist.