10-letter words containing o, g, l
- glorifying — Present participle of glorify.
- gloriously — delightful; wonderful; completely enjoyable: to have a glorious time at the circus.
- glory bush — a shrub, Tibouchina urvilleana, native to Brazil, having showy purple flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- glory days — very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown: to win glory on the field of battle.
- glory hole — Nautical. the quarters on a ship that are occupied by the stewards or stokers. lazaretto (def 3). any locker or enclosed space for loose gear.
- gloryholes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gloryhole.
- gloss over — an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
- glossarial — Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary.
- glossaries — Plural form of glossary.
- glossarist — Someone who writes a glossary.
- glossiness — having a shiny or lustrous surface.
- glossmeter — an instrument for measuring the reflectivity of a surface.
- glossology — linguistics.
- glottalise — Alternative spelling of glottalize.
- glottalize — to pronounce with glottal coarticulation.
- glottidean — Of or relating to the glottis; glottal.
- glottogony — the study of the putative origin of language.
- glottology — linguistics.
- gloucester — Duke of, Humphrey.
- glove shop — a shop that sells gloves
- glove silk — a warp knit fabric made of silk or nylon, used in the manufacture of gloves and undergarments.
- glovemaker — A maker of gloves; a glover.
- glowsticks — Plural form of glowstick.
- glucogenic — the production of glucose by the decomposition of glycogen or from any nonglucose precursor.
- glucophore — a chemical group responsible for sweetness of taste
- glucosides — Plural form of glucoside.
- glucosidic — Of or pertaining to a glucoside.
- glucosuria — glycosuria.
- glumaceous — glumelike; chaffy.
- gluttoning — Present participle of glutton.
- gluttonise — Alternative form of gluttonize.
- gluttonize — to eat like a glutton.
- gluttonous — tending to eat and drink excessively; voracious.
- glycogenic — of or relating to glycogen.
- 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.
- glycophyte — any plant that will only grow healthily in soils with a low content of sodium salts
- 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.
- glyoxylate — a salt or ester of glyoxylic acid.
- glyoxysome — (biochemistry) Any of various specialized peroxisomes found in plants (particularly in the fat-storage tissues of germinating seeds) and also in filamentous fungi, serving to break down fatty acids and provide enzymes to produce intermediates for the synthesis of sugars by gluconeogenesis.
- glyphosate — a compound, C 3 H 8 NO 5 P, used to kill a wide range of weeds.
- glyptodont — any edentate mammal of the extinct genus Glyptodon, of the Pleistocene Epoch, having the body covered by a horny and bony armor.
- 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.
- gnoseology — The scientific or philosophical study of knowledge.