9-letter words containing m, a, l, g
- film gate — (in motion-picture cameras and projectors) a mechanism that holds the film flat in the focal plane of the lens during exposure or projection.
- flag smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the affected leaves and stems, which later dry up and become shredded, caused by several smut fungi of the genus Urocystis.
- flagellum — A slender threadlike structure, especially a microscopic whiplike appendage that enables many protozoa, bacteria, spermatozoa, etc., to swim.
- flame gun — a type of flame-thrower for destroying garden weeds
- flamingly — With, or as if with, fire or flames.
- flamingos — Plural form of flamingo.
- flugelman — fugleman.
- foamingly — in a foaming manner
- foregleam — A gleam or glimpse of the future; foreglimpse.
- gaelicism — a word, phrase or idiom peculiar to the Gaelic language
- galeiform — helmet-shaped; resembling a galea.
- gall mite — a mite of the family Eriophyidae that feeds on plant juices, damaging buds, leaves, and twigs and causing galls and other deformities.
- gallamine — A particular nondepolarizing muscle relaxant.
- gallicism — a French idiom or expression used in another language, as Je ne sais quoi when used in English.
- galumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of galumph.
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- galvanism — Electricity. electricity, especially as produced by chemical action.
- gamboling — (US) present participle of gambol.
- gambolled — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- game fowl — a domestic fowl of a breed much used for fighting.
- game laws — a law enacted for the preservation of game, as by restricting the number and kinds of game that may be taken and by designating periods of the year when specified game may be taken.
- game plan — a carefully thought-out strategy or course of action, as in politics, business, or one's personal affairs.
- game-ball — (of a person) in perfect health
- 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.”.
- gell-mann — Murray, born 1929, U.S. physicist: devised a system for classifying elementary particles and postulated theory of quarks; Nobel Prize 1969.
- geminally — in a geminal manner
- gennelman — (dialect) gentleman.
- gentleman — a man of good family, breeding, or social position.
- germanely — In a manner that is germane, relevantly.
- germinals — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the seventh month of the year, extending from March 21 to April 19.
- germplasm — Alternative spelling of germ plasm.
- gilgamesh — a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics.
- gimmalled — (of a mechanism) jointed
- gintleman — (Irish) eye dialect of gentleman.
- glabellum — glabella.
- gladsheim — the golden palace of Odin, of which Valhalla was a part.
- glam rock — a style of rock music of the early 1970s, characterized by the glittery flamboyance and androgynous image of its performers
- glamorgan — a historic county in SE Wales, now part of Mid, South, and West Glamorgan.
- glamorise — (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ) alternative spelling of glamorize.
- glamorize — to make glamorous.
- 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.
- glassworm — arrowworm.
- glazement — a waterproof glaze for a masonry wall.
- gloamings — Plural form of gloaming.
- globalism — the attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations.
- glomerate — compactly clustered.
- glow lamp — a vacuum tube containing a gas that is ionized by the electrons, giving a visible glow.
- gluemaker — A manufacturer of glue.