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11-letter words containing l, g, u, c

  • glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
  • glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
  • golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
  • golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
  • golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
  • granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
  • granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
  • great-uncle — a granduncle.
  • groundcloth — A groundcloth is a piece of waterproof material which you put on the ground to sleep on when you are camping.
  • groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
  • guadalcanal — the largest of the Solomon Islands, in the W central Pacific: U.S. victory over the Japanese 1942–43. About 2500 sq. mi. (6475 sq. km).
  • gulf crisis — the unstable period prior to the war of 1991 between US-led UN forces and Iraq
  • gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
  • gun control — government regulation of the sale and ownership of firearms.
  • gun culture — the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used
  • gun licence — an official document granting a person permission to own and use a gun, usually subject to various restrictions
  • hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
  • high colour — (hardware)   A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
  • immunologic — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
  • inculcating — Present participle of inculcate.
  • inculpating — Present participle of inculpate.
  • indulgences — Plural form of indulgence.
  • influencing — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
  • inoculating — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
  • judge lynch — the personification of lynch law.
  • jungle cock — the male of the jungle fowl.
  • la camargue — a delta region in S France, between the channels of the Grand and Petit Rhône: cattle, esp bulls for the Spanish bullrings, and horses are reared
  • langue d'oc — the Romance language of medieval southern France: developed into modern Provençal.
  • languescent — becoming languid
  • laugh track — a separate sound track of prerecorded laughter added to the sound track of a radio or television program to enhance or feign audience responses.
  • league city — a town in S Texas.
  • lechuguilla — a semidesert plant, Agave lecheguilla, of Mexico, having a basal rosette of sharply pointed leaves and a very tall flower spike, grown as an ornamental.
  • legacy duty — estate tax; inheritance tax
  • levoglucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
  • light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
  • light music — music for popular entertainment
  • lightstruck — (of beer) Spoiled by exposure to light, which causes riboflavin to react with and break down the isohumulones.
  • lignicolous — growing or living on or in wood
  • linguistics — the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.
  • local group — the group of galaxies, at least 25 of which are known, that includes the Milky Way.
  • logical sum — union (def 10a).
  • longicaudal — having a long tail; macrutous.
  • lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
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