| eusporangium | (noun) a sporangium that arises from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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| excogitation | (noun) thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it | - |
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| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, innovation, invention |
| excogitator | (noun) a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly | - |
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| expunging | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunction |
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| falangist | (noun) a Spanish member of General Franco's political party | Synonyms: phalangist |
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| fangirl | (noun) A female fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media) | - |
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| fermentologist | (noun) a specialist in wine making | Synonyms: enologist, oenologist |
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| fishgig | (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fizgig, gig, lance, spear |
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| fizgig | (noun) a firework that fizzes as it moves | - |
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| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, gig, lance, spear |
| flagging | (noun) a walk of flagstones | - |
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| (noun) flagstones collectively | - |
| flibbertigibbet | (noun) a female fool | Synonyms: foolish woman |
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| flogging | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, lashing, tanning, whipping |
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| florilegium | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: garland, miscellany |
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| fogginess | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: blurriness, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness |
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| (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fog, murk, murkiness |
| foraging | (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions | Synonyms: forage |
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| forging | (noun) shaping metal by heating and hammering | - |
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| forgiveness | (noun) the act of excusing a mistake or offense | Synonyms: pardon |
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| (noun) compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive | - |
| forgiver | (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: excuser, pardoner |
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| forgivingness | (noun) tendency to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: kindness |
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| fothergilla | (noun) any of several deciduous low-growing shrubs of the genus Fothergilla having showy brushlike spikes of white flowers in spring and fiery red and orange autumn color; grows from Alabama to the Allegheny Mountains | Synonyms: witch alder |
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| fragility | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: breakability, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| (noun) lack of physical strength | Synonyms: delicacy |
| frangibility | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: breakability, fragility, frangibleness |
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| frangibleness | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: breakability, fragility, frangibility |
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| frangipane | (noun) pastry with a creamy almond-flavored filling | - |
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| frangipani | (noun) any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers | Synonyms: frangipanni |
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| frangipanni | (noun) any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers | Synonyms: frangipani |
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| frigidity | (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidness, iciness |
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| (noun) sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse | Synonyms: frigidness |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidness, low temperature |
| frigidness | (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidity, iciness |
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| (noun) sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse | Synonyms: frigidity |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidity, low temperature |
| fugitive | (noun) someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice | Synonyms: fugitive from justice |
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| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, runaway |
| fungibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, interchangeability, interchangeableness |
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| fungible | (noun) a commodity that is freely interchangeable with another in satisfying an obligation | - |
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| fungicide | (noun) any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi | Synonyms: antifungal, antifungal agent, antimycotic, antimycotic agent |
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| gametangium | (noun) cell or organ in which gametes develop | - |
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| gastralgia | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: bellyache, stomach ache, stomachache |
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| gastroenterologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract | - |
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| genealogist | (noun) an expert in genealogy | - |
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| geologist | (noun) a specialist in geology | - |
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| geophagia | (noun) eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior | Synonyms: geophagy |
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| gerontologist | (noun) a specialist in gerontology | Synonyms: geriatrician |
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| giant | (noun) any creature of exceptional size | - |
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| (noun) an unusually large enterprise | - |
| (noun) a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun) | Synonyms: giant star |
| (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, goliath, monster |
| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, heavyweight, titan |
| (noun) an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales | - |
| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: heavyweight, hulk, whale |
| giantess | (noun) a female giant | - |
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| giantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: gigantism |
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| (noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: gigantism, overgrowth |
| giardia | (noun) a suspected cause of diarrhea in humans | - |
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| giardiasis | (noun) infection of the intestines with protozoa found in contaminated food and water; characterized by diarrhea and nausea and flatulence and abdominal discomfort | - |
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| gib | (noun) a castrated tomcat | - |
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| gibber | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibberish |
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| gibberellin | (noun) a plant hormone isolated from a fungus; used in promoting plant growth | - |
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| gibberish | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibber |
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| gibbet | (noun) alternative terms for gallows | Synonyms: gallous, gallows-tree, gallows tree |
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| gibbon | (noun) smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies | Synonyms: Hylobates lar |
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| gibbosity | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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| gibbousness | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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| gibbsite | (noun) white crystalline mineral consisting of aluminum hydroxide; a constituent of bauxite and a source of alumina | - |
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| gibe | (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
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| gibibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibits or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bits | Synonyms: Gibit |
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| gibibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB, GiB, gigabyte |
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| giblet | (noun) edible viscera of a fowl | Synonyms: giblets |
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| giblets | (noun) edible viscera of a fowl | Synonyms: giblet |
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| giddiness | (noun) an impulsive scatterbrained manner | Synonyms: silliness |
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| (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, lightheadedness, vertigo |
| gidgee | (noun) scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms | Synonyms: Acacia cambegei, stinking wattle |
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| gifset | (noun) A set of images in the GIF format | - |
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| gift | (noun) the act of giving | Synonyms: giving |
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| (noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: endowment, natural endowment, talent |
| (noun) something acquired without compensation | - |
| gig | (noun) a booking for musicians | - |
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| (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood | - |
| (noun) tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain | - |
| (noun) long and light rowing boat; especially for racing | - |
| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, lance, spear |
| (noun) a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting | - |
| gigabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Gb, Gbit |
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| gigabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB, GiB, gibibyte |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB |
| gigacycle | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle per second, gigahertz |
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| gigaflop | (noun) a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating point operations per second. | Synonyms: billion floating point operations per second, GFLOPS |
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| gigahertz | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle, gigacycle per second |
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| gigantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: giantism |
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| (noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, overgrowth |
| gigatonne | (noun) a unit of weight equivalent to 1 billion tonnes. | Synonyms: Gt |
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| giggle | (noun) a foolish or nervous laugh | - |
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| giggler | (noun) a person who laughs nervously | Synonyms: titterer |
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| gigolo | (noun) a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman | - |
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| gigot | (noun) lamb leg suitable for roasting | Synonyms: leg of lamb |
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| gigue | (noun) music in three-four time for dancing a jig | Synonyms: jig |
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| gilbert | (noun) a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns | Synonyms: Gb, Gi |
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| gild | (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, guild, lodge, order, social club, society |
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| gilder | (noun) someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt | - |
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| gildhall | (noun) the meeting place of a medieval guild | - |
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| gilding | (noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold | Synonyms: gilt |
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| gill | (noun) respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water | Synonyms: branchia |
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| (noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: lamella |
| (noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces | - |
| (noun) a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters | - |
| gillie | (noun) a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep | Synonyms: ghillie |
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| (noun) a young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief | - |
| gillyflower | (noun) Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | Synonyms: carnation, clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus |
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| (noun) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers | Synonyms: stock |
| gilt | (noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold | Synonyms: gilding |
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| gimbal | (noun) an appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips | - |
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| gimcrack | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| gimcrackery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery |
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| gimel | (noun) the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| gimlet | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: auger, screw auger, wimble |
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| (noun) a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice | - |
| gimmick | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: device, twist |
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| (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
| (noun) a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident | Synonyms: catch |
| gimmickry | (noun) a collection of gimmicks | - |
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| gimp | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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| gimpiness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, lameness, limping |
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| gin | (noun) a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points | Synonyms: gin rummy, knock rummy |
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| (noun) a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers | Synonyms: cotton gin |
| (noun) a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose | Synonyms: noose, snare |
| (noun) strong liquor flavored with juniper berries | - |
| ginep | (noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: genip, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |
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| ginger | (noun) liveliness and energy | Synonyms: pep, peppiness |
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| (noun) dried ground gingerroot | Synonyms: powdered ginger |
| (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: gingerroot |
| (noun) perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems | - |
| gingerbread | (noun) cake flavored with ginger | - |
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| gingerol | (noun) derived from ginger; source of the hotness of ginger | - |
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| gingerroot | (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: ginger |
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| gingersnap | (noun) a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger | Synonyms: ginger nut, ginger snap, snap |
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