8-letter words containing s, a, l
- gas well — a well from which natural gas is obtained.
- gasalier — A gas-powered chandelier.
- gaselier — Alt form gasalier.
- gasfield — a subterranean area where natural gas is found
- gaslight — light produced by the combustion of illuminating gas.
- gasolene — gasoline.
- gasolier — a chandelier furnished with gaslights.
- gasoline — a volatile, flammable liquid mixture of hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, and used as fuel for internal-combustion engines, as a solvent, etc.
- gasteral — Of or pertaining to the stomach.
- gastfull — dismal; dreary
- gastrula — a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.
- gaullism — a political movement in France led by Charles de Gaulle.
- gaullist — a supporter of the political principles of Charles Charles de Gaulle.
- gaumless — gormless.
- gayelles — Plural form of gayelle.
- gazeless — to look steadily and intently, as with great curiosity, interest, pleasure, or wonder.
- gazelles — Plural form of gazelle.
- gealousy — Obsolete form of jealousy.
- gearless — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- gelasius — (Giovanni de Gaeta) died 1119, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1118–19.
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- gelatins — Plural form of gelatin.
- generals — Plural form of general.
- genitals — Synonym of genitalia.
- gestalts — Plural form of gestalt.
- gestural — a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.: the gestures of an orator; a threatening gesture.
- gesualdo — Don Carlo [dawn kahr-law] /dɔn ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), Prince of Venosa [ve-naw-zah] /vɛˈnɔ zɑ/ (Show IPA), c1560–1613, Italian composer.
- gharials — Plural form of gharial.
- ghastful — frightful.
- gil blas — (Gil Blas de Santillane) a picaresque novel (1715–35) by Le Sage.
- girasole — an opal that reflects light in a bright luminous glow.
- girasols — Plural form of girasol.
- glabrous — having a surface devoid of hair or pubescence.
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glacious — Characteristic, composed, or of the nature of icy; icy.“Gla
- glackens — William James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- gladdens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gladden.
- gladdest — Superlative form of glad.
- gladness — feeling joy or pleasure; delighted; pleased: glad about the good news; glad that you are here.
- gladsome — giving or causing joy; delightful.
- glamours — Plural form of glamour.
- glanders — a contagious disease chiefly of horses and mules but communicable to humans, caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas mallei and characterized by swellings beneath the jaw and a profuse mucous discharge from the nostrils.
- glareous — growing in gravel
- glasnost — the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.
- glaspell — Susan, 1882–1948, U.S. novelist and dramatist.
- glass in — to enclose with glass panes
- glassfet — /glas'fet/ [Analogy with MOSFET] (or "firebottle") A humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube.
- glassful — an amount contained by or sufficient to fill a glass or tumbler.
- glassier — Comparative form of glassy.
- glassies — Plural form of glassy.