8-letter words containing o, l, g
- glendora — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- 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.
- globally — pertaining to the whole world; worldwide; universal: the dream of global peace.
- globbing — Present participle of glob.
- globoids — Plural form of globoid.
- globular — globe-shaped; spherical.
- globules — Plural form of globule.
- globulet — a small globule
- 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.
- globulus — The nucleus globosus.
- glomming — to steal.
- glomping — Present participle of glomp.
- gloomier — Comparative form of gloomy.
- gloomily — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- glooming — total or partial darkness; dimness.
- glooscap — (among the Micmac and other Native North American peoples) a traditional trickster hero
- gloriole — a halo, nimbus, or aureole.
- gloriosa — any plant of the bulbous tropical African genus Gloriosa, some species of which are grown as ornamental greenhouse climbers for their showy flowers of yellow, orange, and red: family Liliaceae
- glorioso — (obsolete) A boaster.
- glorious — delightful; wonderful; completely enjoyable: to have a glorious time at the circus.
- glorying — Present participle of glory.
- glossary — a list of terms in a special subject, field, or area of usage, with accompanying definitions.
- glosseme — (in glossematics) an irreducible, invariant form, as a morpheme or tagmeme, that functions as the smallest meaningful unit of linguistic signaling.
- glossier — Comparative form of glossy.
- glossies — Plural form of glossy.
- glossily — In a glossy manner.
- 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.
- glossist — (obsolete) A writer of glosses, or comments.
- glottals — Plural form of glottal.
- glovebox — The small storage compartment on the passenger's side of an automobile.
- gloveman — fielder.
- glowered — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
- glowlamp — An aphlogistic lamp.
- glowworm — the wingless female or larva of the European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, which emits a sustained greenish light.
- 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.
- glycerol — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- 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.
- glycolic — pertaining to or derived from glycol.
- glyconic — (of a line of verse) consisting of three trochees and one dactyl
- glycosyl — (biochemistry) Any functional group derived from a sugar (especially from a monosaccharide) by removal of the hemiacetal hydroxy group.