16-letter words containing gl
- a blaze of glory — If you go out in a blaze of glory, you do something very dramatic at the end of your career or your life which makes you famous.
- alternate angles — two angles at opposite ends and on opposite sides of a transversal cutting two lines
- american english — the form of English spoken in the US
- angle of advance — the angle in excess of 90° that a steam-engine valve gear is in advance of the crank
- anglo-australian — belonging, relating to, or involving England and Australia, or the people of the two countries.
- bermuda triangle — an area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Florida where ships and aeroplanes are alleged to have disappeared mysteriously
- budgie smugglers — men's close-fitting swimming trunks
- business english — English in business usage, especially the styles and forms of business correspondence.
- canadian english — the English language as spoken in Canada
- chronic glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- d-glyceraldehyde — an isomer of glyceraldehyde in which the OH group is on the right side of the asymmetric carbon atom.
- dangling pointer — (programming) A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere. In C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid. Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared, e.g. a heap-allocated block which has been freed and reused. Used as jargon in a generalisation of its technical meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved is a dangling pointer.
- de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
- de-anglicization — (in Ireland) the elimination of English influence, language, customs, etc
- deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
- depression glass — cheap glassware mass-produced during the Depression of the 1930s, usually molded in patterns in pale colors, and collectible since the early 1970s
- devil's triangle — Bermuda Triangle.
- dimethylglyoxime — (organic compound) The oxime 2,3-butanedione dioxime that is used as a reagent in the analysis of nickel and palladium.
- discriminatingly — With discrimination.
- english canadian — a Canadian citizen whose first language is English, esp one of English descent
- english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
- english-speaking — speaking English as a mother tongue
- englishman's tie — a type of knot for tying together heavy ropes
- eternal triangle — You use the eternal triangle to refer to a relationship involving love and jealousy between two men and a woman or two women and a man.
- fit like a glove — fit perfectly
- flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
- glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
- global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
- globigerina ooze — a calcareous deposit occurring upon ocean beds and consisting mainly of the shells of dead foraminifers, especially globigerina.
- globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
- glory-of-the-sun — a bulbous, Chilean plant, Leucocoryne ixioides, of the amaryllis family, having fragrant, white or blue flowers.
- glossopharyngeal — of or relating to the tongue and pharynx.
- glottochronology — the branch of lexicostatistics that studies the rate of replacement of vocabulary and attempts to determine what percentage of basic vocabulary two presently distinct but related languages share, using the information thus obtained to estimate how long ago they ceased being a single language.
- glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
- glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
- gross negligence — extreme carelessness that shows wilful or reckless disregard for the consequences to the safety or property of another
- hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
- hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
- hieroglyphically — In hieroglyphics.
- hourglass figure — the shape of a woman who is well-proportioned and has a small waist
- in plain english — in clear and simple language
- isoagglutination — the clumping of the red blood cells by a transfusion of the blood or serum of a genetically different individual of the same species.
- james oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
- l-glyceraldehyde — the levorotatory optical isomer of glyceraldehyde.
- little englander — an English person who believes the best interests of Britain are served by attention to Britain itself, rather than to the concerns of the empire.
- magnifying glass — a lens that produces an enlarged image of an object.
- mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
- munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
- oblique triangle — any triangle that does not have a right angle (contrasted with right triangle).
- oligodendroglial — Of or pertaining to the oligodendroglia.
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