Words starting with G

175 words.

• gabelzhan The offset and typically most distal tooth on the fixed digits of mesostigmatan mites.
• gabert A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.
• gadroon Any of a series of raised decorative curves used as adornments on the necks of vases, silverware, et
• gaffle A lever used to bend a crossbow.
• gaincope To catch up with, intercept, or encounter (a person) by taking a short-cut.
• gainsayer One who contradicts or denies what is alleged; an opposer.
• gainset To set over against; oppose.
• gainstand To stand against; resist, oppose; withstand.
• galeanthropy The mental condition of thinking that one has become a cat, which is usually manifested in the adopt
• galleass A type of rowable vessel of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to a galley but larger, and normall
• gallimaufry A hash of various kinds of meats; a ragout.
• gallivant To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
• gallivat A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, used on the Malabar coast.
• gallow To frighten, alarm, scare, or terrify.
• galosh To walk while wearing, or as if wearing, galoshes; to splash about.
• gambado Either of a pair of protective leather gaiters on a saddle.
• gambaru Perseverance even with the hardest of tasks, in the context of Japanese culture.
• gambol To move about playfully; to frolic.
• gameful Full of game (prey for a hunter).
• gamely Sportive; lively; joyful.
• gamesome Full of sport; playful.
• gamin A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally), a cheeky, street-smart boy.
• gammon A joke, trick; play, sport, merriment.
• ganch To drop from a high place on sharp stakes or hooks as a punishment.
• ganger One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker.
• gangrel A tramp, vagrant, vagabond.
• gannet To wolf down, gobble or eat (something) voraciously.
• garble To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose not intended by the original author; to mu
• gardbrace A piece of armor which augments the pauldron in protecting the shoulder.
• gardebras A piece of armor which protects the arm.
• garderobe A storeroom or wardrobe.
• gardyloo A cry of “gardyloo”.
• gargalesis Heavy tickling often leading to laughter.
• gargarize To gargle (rinse or wash mouth and throat).
• garniture Something that garnishes; a decoration, adornment or embellishment
• garrigue A type of low scrubland found on limestone soils in southern France and other parts of the Mediterra
• gasometer An apparatus used to store or measure gas or the flow of gas, particularly in a laboratory setting.
• gauffer To plait, crimp, or flute
• gavage To stuff or glut with something
• gavel A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
• gayelle An informal stage or arena, as for cockfighting or stickfighting.
• gazump To swindle; to extort.
• geason Rare; uncommon; scarce.
• geest A type of slightly raised landscape, with sandy and gravelly soils, that occurs in the plains of Nor
• gegenschein A faint brightening of the night sky in the region of the ecliptic directly opposite the Sun.
• gelandesprung A jump, usually over an obstacle, made in downhill skiing.
• gelast One who tends to laugh; a laugher.
• gelbstoff The optically measurable component of dissolved organic matter in water, which primarily occurs natu
• gelotology The study of humour and laughter, and its effects on the body.
• gelotophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of being laughed at.
• gematria A cabalistic method of interpreting Hebrew words, based on numerical values of letters.
• gemel A twin (also attributively).
• gemmule In the obsolete theory of pangenesis propounded by the English scientist Charles Darwin (1809–1882):
• gemot A (legislative or judicial) assembly in Anglo-Saxon England.
• gemsmith A maker or worker of gems; a jeweler
• geneat A retainer; vassal; one who holds lands of a superior either by service or payment of rent.
• generativity The ability to create or reproduce.
• genio Somebody having a particular way of thinking.
• genizah A depository where sacred Hebrew books or other sacred items that by Jewish law cannot be disposed o
• genoism Discrimination on the basis of genetic profile.
• genophilia Love of one's own relations, tribe, kind or race.
• genrefication Shelving of library books or similar works based on genre.
• gentilesse Courtesy, refinement; gentleness.
• gentrice The state or quality of being high-born; gentility.
• geognosy The geological study of the Earth's structure and composition.
• geopbyte Roughly 10³⁰ bytes; 1024 brontobytes.
• gersum A lump sum paid by individuals who take a lease of landed property in England.
• gesith A companion to an athel or king in medieval England; a thegn; a comrade
• gestatory gestational (pertaining to gestation or pregnancy)
• gewgaw A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration.
• gezellig Having a cosy or pleasant, or sociable atmosphere; convivial and inviting.
• ghastful Causing fear; terrifying.
• gherao A protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc. until demands are met.
• ghoom To hunt for animals by stealth in an area where they are likely to be found on the move.
• ghostdom The condition, state, or realm of ghosts or spirits; spirituality; spiritualism.
• gigantesque Very large; like a giant; gigantic.
• gigantomachy The battle of the Giants (offspring of Gaia, according to Hesiod conceived from the spilt blood of U
• gigot A leg of lamb or mutton.
• gillie A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief.
• ginnel A narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses.
• girandole An ornamental branched candle holder, sometimes with a mirror behind.
• gisarme A type of polearm having a spearhead and a reverse hooked spike on the back.
• glabella The space between the eyebrows and above the nose.
• glair Egg white, especially as used in various industrial preparations.
• glaive A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head.
• glaucope A person with dark hair and blue eyes.
• glaum To grasp or snatch (at), usually feebly or ineffectually; to grope (at) with the hands, as in the da
• glede A live coal; an ember.
• gleek To ridicule, or mock; to make sport of.
• gleeman A professional singer, bard, or other entertainer.
• glime To glance (at); to look sideways.
• glitten to glisten, to reflect, to shimmer.
• glitterance a glittering, a sparkling with light
• globaloney Absurd or nonsensical ideas or talk on global issues.
• globital Both global and digital; relating to the use of computer technology by the international masses, esp
• glome To look gloomy, morose, dark or sullen.
• glomerous Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
• gloomies Preceded by the: gloom, despondency.
• glorificatory Expressing or characterized by glorification; glorifying.
• glossatrix A specifically female glossator.
• glossology The science of language; linguistics.
• glossopoeia The creation of constructed languages for artistic purposes; language so created.
• gloze To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.
• glozer A glosser; one who covers things in gloss.
• glume A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyp
• glunge A glamorous fashion that incorporates grunge-inspired elements.
• glutinate To unite with glue; to cement; to stick together.
• gluttonly Resembling or characteristic of a glutton.
• glvalue A value that is either an xvalue or an lvalue.
• gmina commune; municipality; township; the smallest administrative territorial division and the first leve
• gnisrap The cognitive process of creating a mental model of a computer program by reading the code.
• gnomology A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections.
• gnomon An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun sh
• gobbet To splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter.
• godkind Divinity; gods collectively.
• godlore The study or knowledge of God or gods; theology; divinity; mythology; religion.
• godsib One's sibling or kin via a godfamily tie: one's or one's child's godparent, or one's godchild's pare
• goglet A jar or vase of porous pottery for keeping water cool by evaporation.
• goitrogen Any agent that causes goiter, such as thiouracil.
• golem A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic. The most famous was made by Rabbi Loew in the
• gomashta A native Indian clerk or steward.
• gomer A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars.
• gonfalon A standard or ensign, consisting of a pole with a crosspiece from which a banner is suspended, espec
• gongpit The cesspit of a latrine or outhouse; a latrine or outhouse itself.
• gonzo Using an unconventional, exaggerated, and highly subjective style, often when the reporter takes par
• gooden To perambulate, usually town to town, collecting alms, gifts, or small gratuities before Christmas-t
• goodlihead The character or nature of a goodly person; goodliness.
• goodwife A female head of a household.
• goosh To move in a messy, liquid manner.
• gorgoneion A (representation of a) gorgon's head, especially that of Medusa.
• gormy Awkward, clumsy, klutzy, ungainly.
• gorsedd A community of bards, usually Welsh, but sometimes Breton or Cornish.
• gossipred Relationship by baptismal rites; spiritual affinity or parentage; sponsorship.
• gossoon A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.
• gosther To talk loudly and impudently; to boast or bluster.
• gound Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
• governail That which steers a nautical vessel; a rudder or a person employing it.
• gowpen A bowl made of the two hands cupped together.
• gracile Lean, slender, thin.
• gradely decent, well-meaning, respectable
• graith To make ready; prepare; put in order; make fit for use.
• grame To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
• grammelot A style of language used in satirical theater: a gibberish with macaronic and onomatopoeic elements,
• grandiloquent Given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive number of difficult words to impress ot
• granfalloon A group of two or more people who imagine or are manipulated to believe they share a connection base
• grangerisation The practice of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping
• graocracy A government led by old women or old men.
• grasively Comprehensively, thoroughly.
• gratulate To express joy at (an event or situation).
• gravamen A grievance complained of.
• grawlix A series of images or symbols used in speech bubbles in comic strips to indicate one or more swear w
• greeble A small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object and add visual interest, parti
• greige A colour like that of unbleached or undyed fabric between grey and beige, closely akin to taupe.
• gressorial Adapted for walking, rather than being adapted for say, swimming, as in seals, or digging, as in mol
• gride To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
• groat Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
• grotesquerie An instance of grotesqueness, a grotesque thing.
• groundly Firmly grounded; solid; of education: complete, thorough, well-grounded.
• groyne An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a
• grundsow A groundhog, a woodchuck.
• grype A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.
• guige A strap attached to a shield, used to hang the shield over the shoulder or from the neck.
• guiler A deceiver, a beguiler.
• guillemet Either of the punctuation marks « or » (or ‹ or ›), used in several languages to indicate passages o
• gular Particularly of an animal: of, pertaining to, or located at the gula (“the upper front of the neck n
• gules In blazon, of the colour red.
• gumption Boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness or initiative.
• gunsel A gun-carrying hoodlum or other criminal.
• gurgitate To surge (rise) and fall ebulliently, like or as water.
• gurrier A street urchin.
• guttate To exude drops of xylem sap on the edges of leaves.
• guttle An act of swallowing voraciously.
• gyani Knowledgeable, wise, intelligent.
• gylany A social system based on equality of women and men.
• gynaeceum The women's quarters in a household; (hence, loosely) any building or area for women.