| gallantry | (noun) polite attentiveness to women | - |
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| (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: heroism, valiance, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour |
| (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: chivalry, politesse |
| gallberry | (noun) evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries | Synonyms: evergreen winterberry, gall-berry, Ilex glabra, inkberry |
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| gallbladder | (noun) a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion | Synonyms: gall bladder |
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| galleon | (noun) a large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries | - |
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| gallery | (noun) narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade | - |
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| (noun) a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns) | - |
| (noun) a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose | - |
| (noun) a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited | Synonyms: art gallery, picture gallery |
| (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: veranda, verandah |
| (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: drift, heading |
| (noun) spectators at a golf or tennis match | - |
| galley | (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: caboose, cookhouse, ship's galley |
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| (noun) the kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner | - |
| (noun) (classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars | - |
| (noun) a large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading | - |
| gallfly | (noun) any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed | - |
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| (noun) small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants | Synonyms: cynipid gall wasp, cynipid wasp, gall wasp |
| (noun) fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants | Synonyms: gall gnat, gall midge |
| gallimaufry | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| gallina | (noun) small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl | Synonyms: jungle fowl |
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| gallinacean | (noun) heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds | Synonyms: gallinaceous bird |
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| gallinule | (noun) any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens | Synonyms: marsh hen, swamphen, water hen |
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| gallium | (noun) a rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores | Synonyms: atomic number 31, Ga |
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| gallon | (noun) United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters | Synonyms: gal |
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| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters | Synonyms: congius, Imperial gallon |
| gallop | (noun) a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously | - |
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| gallous | (noun) alternative terms for gallows | Synonyms: gallows-tree, gallows tree, gibbet |
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| gallows | (noun) an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging | - |
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| gallstone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: bilestone |
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| gallus | (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: brace, suspender |
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| gildhall | (noun) the meeting place of a medieval guild | - |
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| goofball | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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| (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, clown, goof, merry andrew |
| greaseball | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, Guinea, wop |
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| groundball | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, grounder, hopper |
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| guildhall | (noun) the hall of a guild or corporation | - |
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| hairball | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, trichobezoar |
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| hall | (noun) a large building for meetings or entertainment | - |
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| (noun) a large room for gatherings, receiving guests, or entertainment | - |
| (noun) an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open | Synonyms: hallway |
| (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, dormitory, residence hall, student residence |
| (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule |
| (noun) the large room of a manor or castle | Synonyms: manor hall |
| (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: manse, mansion, mansion house, residence |
| (noun) a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research | - |
| hallah | (noun) (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking | Synonyms: challah |
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| hallelujah | (noun) a shout or song of praise to God | - |
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| halliard | (noun) a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag | Synonyms: halyard |
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| hallmark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: earmark, stylemark, trademark |
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| (noun) a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity | Synonyms: assay-mark, authentication |
| halloo | (noun) a shout to attract attention | - |
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| hallstand | (noun) a piece of furniture where coats and hats and umbrellas can be hung; usually has a mirror | - |
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| hallucination | (noun) a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea | Synonyms: delusion |
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| (noun) an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode | - |
| (noun) illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder | - |
| hallucinogen | (noun) a psychoactive drug that induces hallucinations or altered sensory experiences | Synonyms: hallucinogenic drug, psychedelic drug, psychodelic drug |
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| hallucinosis | (noun) a mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations | - |
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| hallux | (noun) the first largest innermost toe | Synonyms: big toe, great toe |
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| hallway | (noun) an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open | Synonyms: hall |
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| handball | (noun) a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands | - |
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| (noun) a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball | - |
| hardball | (noun) baseball as distinguished from softball | - |
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| (noun) a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics | - |
| headstall | (noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headpiece |
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| highball | (noun) a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass | - |
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| holdall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: carryall, tote, tote bag |
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| hospitaller | (noun) title of the member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals. | - |
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| hypallage | (noun) reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face') | - |
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| icefall | (noun) a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall | - |
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| infallibility | (noun) the quality of never making an error | - |
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| installation | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installing, installment, instalment |
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| (noun) a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry | Synonyms: facility |
| (noun) a formal entry into an organization or position or office | Synonyms: induction, initiation |
| installing | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installment, instalment |
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| installment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, instalment |
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| (noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, instalment |
| (noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: instalment |
| (noun) a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals | - |
| knuckleball | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckler |
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| lallation | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babble, babbling |
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| (noun) defective articulation of the `l' phoneme or the phoneme `r' is pronounced as `l' | - |
| lally | (noun) support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete | Synonyms: lally column |
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| landfall | (noun) the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water) | - |
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| (noun) the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water) | - |
| lavalliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavaliere |
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| levallorphan | (noun) drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects | Synonyms: Lorfan |
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| mall | (noun) a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk | Synonyms: promenade |
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| (noun) mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace | Synonyms: center, centre, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall |
| mallard | (noun) wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended; widely distributed | Synonyms: Anas platyrhynchos |
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| malleability | (noun) the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking | Synonyms: plasticity |
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| mallee | (noun) any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts | - |
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| mallet | (noun) a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing | Synonyms: beetle |
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| (noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. | Synonyms: hammer |
| (noun) a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball | - |
| malleus | (noun) the ossicle attached to the eardrum | Synonyms: hammer |
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| mallow | (noun) any of various plants of the family Malvaceae | - |
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| marshall | (noun) a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law | Synonyms: marshal |
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| (noun) (in some countries) a military officer of highest rank | Synonyms: marshal |
| marshmallow | (noun) spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar | - |
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| masdevallia | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Masdevallia; tufted evergreen often diminutive plants whose flowers in a remarkable range of colors usually resemble a tricorn with sepals fused at the base to form a tube | - |
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| meatball | (noun) ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth | - |
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| medallion | (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, palm, ribbon |
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| (noun) an emblem indicating that a taxicab is registered | - |
| (noun) a circular helping of food (especially a boneless cut of meat) | - |
| (noun) a circular helping of food (especially a boneless cut of meat) "medallions of veal" | - |
| (noun) any of various large ancient Greek coins | - |
| medallist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medalist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medalist |
| mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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| metallic | (noun) a yarn made partly or entirely of metal | - |
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| (noun) a fabric made of a yarn that is partly or entirely of metal | - |
| metallicity | (noun) The state of possessing a similar aural resonance to metal. | - |
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| metallurgist | (noun) an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals | Synonyms: metallurgical engineer |
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| metallurgy | (noun) the science and technology of metals | - |
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| microphallus | (noun) an abnormally small penis | Synonyms: micropenis |
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| misalliance | (noun) an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) | - |
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| monometallism | (noun) the use of only one metal (such as gold or silver) in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of monetary value. | - |
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| morphallaxis | (noun) regeneration on a reduced scale of a body part; observed especially in invertebrates such as certain lobsters | - |
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| mothball | (noun) a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing | Synonyms: camphor ball |
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| neopallium | (noun) the cortical part of the neencephalon | Synonyms: neocortex |
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| netball | (noun) a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post | - |
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| nightfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, twilight |
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| nonallele | (noun) genes that are not competitors at the same locus | - |
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| oddball | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek |
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| outfall | (noun) the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water | - |
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| overall | (noun) (usually plural) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps) | - |
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| (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, boilersuit |
| overcall | (noun) (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand) | Synonyms: overbid |
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| paintball | (noun) a game that simulates military combat; players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them | - |
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| (noun) a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball | - |
| pall | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle |
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| (noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | Synonyms: cerement, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
| (noun) a sudden numbing dread | Synonyms: chill |
| palladium | (noun) a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry | Synonyms: atomic number 46, Pd |
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| pallasite | (noun) a meteorite composed principally of olivine and metallic iron | - |
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| pallbearer | (noun) one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral | Synonyms: bearer |
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| pallet | (noun) a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed | - |
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| (noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used | Synonyms: palette |
| (noun) a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay | - |
| (noun) a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it | - |
| (noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art | Synonyms: palette |
| pallette | (noun) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor | Synonyms: palette |
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| palliasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: paillasse |
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| palliation | (noun) easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause | - |
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| (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: extenuation, mitigation |
| palliative | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, alleviator |
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| pallidity | (noun) being deficient in color | Synonyms: paleness |
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| pallidness | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallor, wanness |
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| pallidum | (noun) the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: globus pallidus, paleostriatum |
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| pallium | (noun) cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back | - |
| (noun) (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell | Synonyms: mantle |
| (noun) the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum | Synonyms: cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, cortex |
| pallone | (noun) an Italian game similar to tennis | - |
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