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11-letter words containing o, g, l, a

  • gigantology — the study or description of giants
  • gjallarhorn — Heimdall's horn, used to warn the gods of Ragnarok.
  • glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
  • glamorizing — Present participle of glamorize.
  • glamorously — In a glamorous manner.
  • glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
  • glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
  • glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
  • glamourpuss — a glamorous person, esp a woman
  • glass block — a translucent, hollow or solid block of glass for glazing openings or constructing partitions, usually square on the face, with the outer surfaces treated in any of various ways.
  • glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
  • glasshouses — Plural form of glasshouse.
  • glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
  • glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
  • glauconitic — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
  • glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
  • gliomatosis — excessive growth of neuroglia in the brain or spinal cord
  • global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
  • globalising — Present participle of globalise.
  • globalizing — Present participle of globalize.
  • globe valve — a valve with a globular body, closed by a disk seating on an opening in an internal wall.
  • globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
  • glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
  • glomerating — Present participle of glomerate.
  • glomeration — a glomerate condition; conglomeration.
  • glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
  • glory years — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
  • gloss paint — Gloss paint is paint that forms a shiny surface when it dries.
  • glossodynia — a condition characterized by a burning or tingling mouth region
  • glossolalia — incomprehensible speech in an imaginary language, sometimes occurring in a trance state, an episode of religious ecstasy, or schizophrenia.
  • glottalized — pronounced with glottal coarticulation.
  • glove maker — someone who makes gloves
  • glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
  • glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
  • glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
  • 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.
  • glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
  • 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
  • gnamma hole — a hollow in bare rock, narrow at the opening and wider at the bottom, in which water collects.
  • go bail for — to furnish bail for
  • 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.
  • goal crease — crease1 (def 4).
  • goal scorer — somebody who scores goals
  • goalkeepers — Plural form of goalkeeper.
  • goalkeeping — The art of a goalkeeper.
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