| egomaniac | (noun) an abnormally egotistical person | - |
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| egotism | (noun) an exaggerated opinion of your own importance | Synonyms: self-importance, swelled head |
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| (noun) an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others | Synonyms: ego, self-importance |
| egotist | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, swellhead |
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| embargo | (noun) a government order imposing a trade barrier | Synonyms: trade embargo, trade stoppage |
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| emmenagogue | (noun) any agent that promotes menstrual discharge | - |
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| engobe | (noun) a clay slip which is colored with metal oxides or stains, used for coating the surface of a pot either before or after bisque firing. | - |
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| engorgement | (noun) eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation | - |
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| (noun) congestion with blood | - |
| epigon | (noun) an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer, artist, or musician | Synonyms: epigone |
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| epigone | (noun) an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer, artist, or musician | Synonyms: epigon |
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| ergocalciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: calciferol, cholecalciferol, D, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| ergodicity | (noun) an attribute of stochastic systems; generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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| ergometer | (noun) measuring instrument designed to measure power | Synonyms: dynamometer |
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| ergonomics | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: bioengineering, biotechnology |
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| ergonovine | (noun) an alkaloid derived from ergot (trade name Ergotrate Maleate) that is less toxic than ergot; induces muscular contraction of the uterus and is administered after childbirth or abortion | Synonyms: Ergotrate Maleate |
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| ergosterol | (noun) a plant sterol that is converted into vitamin D by ultraviolet radiation | - |
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| ergot | (noun) a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid | Synonyms: Claviceps purpurea |
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| (noun) a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus | - |
| ergotamine | (noun) an alkaloid derived from ergot that is less toxic than ergot; causes constriction of blood vessels and is used to treat migraine | - |
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| ergotine | (noun) a powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance, used to produce contraction of the uterus. | - |
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| ergotism | (noun) poisoning by ingestion of ergot-infected grain products; characterized by thirst and diarrhea and nausea and cramping and vomiting and abnormal cardiac rhythms; in severe cases it can cause seizures and gangrene of the limbs | - |
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| ergotropism | (noun) an affinity for work | - |
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| eringo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eryngo |
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| eriogonum | (noun) any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers | - |
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| eryngo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eringo |
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| escargot | (noun) edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic | Synonyms: snail |
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| esophagoscope | (noun) an optical instrument for examining the inside of the esophagus | Synonyms: oesophagoscope |
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| estragon | (noun) fresh leaves (or leaves preserved in vinegar) used as seasoning | Synonyms: tarragon |
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| (noun) aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia | Synonyms: Artemisia dracunculus, tarragon |
| faggot | (noun) a bundle of sticks and branches bound together | Synonyms: fagot |
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| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
| faggoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: fagoting |
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| fagot | (noun) a bundle of sticks and branches bound together | Synonyms: faggot |
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| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
| fagoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: faggoting |
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| fandango | (noun) a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets | - |
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| farrago | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| filago | (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, cudweed |
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| flagon | (noun) a large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout; used to hold alcoholic beverages (usually wine) | - |
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| flamingo | (noun) large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes | - |
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| forgoing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forswearing, renunciation |
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| galactagogue | (noun) agent that induces milk secretion | - |
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| galago | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, bushbaby |
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| gargoyle | (noun) an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
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| (noun) a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
| gargoylism | (noun) hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation | Synonyms: dysostosis multiplex, Hurler's disease, Hurler's syndrome, lipochondrodystrophy |
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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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| ginkgo | (noun) deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree | Synonyms: gingko, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree |
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| glucagon | (noun) a hormone secreted by the pancreas; stimulates increases in blood sugar levels in the blood (thus opposing the action of insulin) | - |
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| go | (noun) a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters | Synonyms: go game |
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| (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, offer, pass, whirl |
| (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, cristal, disco biscuit, ecstasy, hug drug, X, XTC |
| (noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: spell, tour, turn |
| goad | (noun) a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion | Synonyms: prod |
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| (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goading, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
| goading | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
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| goal | (noun) a successful attempt at scoring | - |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points | - |
| (noun) the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it | Synonyms: end |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: destination, finish |
| goalie | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
| goalkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
| goalmouth | (noun) (sports) the area immediately in front of the goal | - |
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| goalpost | (noun) one of a pair of posts (usually joined by a crossbar) that are set up as a goal at each end of a playing field | - |
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| goaltender | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper, netminder |
| goat | (noun) any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns | Synonyms: caprine animal |
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| (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, laughingstock, stooge |
| goatee | (noun) a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard | - |
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| goatfish | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: Mullus surmuletus, red mullet, surmullet |
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| goatherd | (noun) a person who tends a flock of goats | Synonyms: goat herder |
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| goatsbeard | (noun) weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis |
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| goatsfoot | (noun) short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers | Synonyms: goat's foot, Oxalis caprina |
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| goatskin | (noun) the hide of a goat | - |
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| goatsucker | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, nightjar |
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| gob | (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, hole, maw, trap, yap |
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| (noun) a lump of slimy stuff | - |
| (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, tar |
| gobbet | (noun) a lump or chunk of raw meat | - |
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| gobble | (noun) the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock | - |
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| gobbledygook | (noun) incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists | - |
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| gobbler | (noun) male turkey | Synonyms: tom, tom turkey, turkey cock |
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| (noun) a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls | - |
| goblet | (noun) a drinking glass with a base and stem | - |
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| (noun) a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup | Synonyms: chalice |
| goblin | (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: hob, hobgoblin |
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| gobs | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| goby | (noun) small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker | Synonyms: gudgeon |
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| god | (noun) a material effigy that is worshipped | Synonyms: graven image, idol |
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| (noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, divinity, immortal |
| (noun) a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people | - |
| godchild | (noun) an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism | - |
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| goddaughter | (noun) a female godchild | - |
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| goddess | (noun) a female deity | - |
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| godfather | (noun) any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| (noun) someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild | - |
| godlessness | (noun) impiety by virtue of not being a godly person | Synonyms: ungodliness |
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| godliness | (noun) piety by virtue of being a godly person | - |
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| godmother | (noun) any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| godown | (noun) (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse | - |
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| godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
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| godsend | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| godson | (noun) a male godchild | - |
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| godwit | (noun) large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill | - |
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| goer | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: departer, leaver |
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| goethite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: gothite |
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| gofer | (noun) an employee whose duties include running errands | - |
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| goffer | (noun) an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats | Synonyms: gauffer |
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| (noun) an iron used to press pleats and ridges | Synonyms: gauffer, gauffering iron, goffering iron |
| (noun) a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) | Synonyms: gopher |
| goggles | (noun) (plural) tight-fitting spectacles worn to protect the eyes | - |
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| going | (noun) advancing toward a goal | Synonyms: sledding |
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| (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: departure, going away, leaving |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, loss, passing, release |
| goiter | (noun) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet | Synonyms: goitre, struma, thyromegaly |
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| goitre | (noun) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet | Synonyms: goiter, struma, thyromegaly |
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| goitrogen | (noun) any substance (such as thiouracil) that induces the formation of a goiter | - |
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| gold | (noun) a deep yellow color | Synonyms: amber |
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| (noun) something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc. | - |
| (noun) coins made of gold | - |
| (noun) great wealth | - |
| (noun) a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia | Synonyms: atomic number 79, Au |
| goldbeater | (noun) an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf | Synonyms: gold-beater |
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| goldbrick | (noun) anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | - |
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| (noun) a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not | - |
| (noun) an idle worthless person | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account |
| (noun) a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort | - |
| goldbricking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering |
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| goldcrest | (noun) European kinglet with a black-bordered yellow crown patch | Synonyms: golden-crested kinglet, Regulus regulus |
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| goldcup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, kingcup |
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| goldenbush | (noun) a plant of the genus Haplopappus | - |
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| (noun) any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America | - |
| goldeneye | (noun) large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions | Synonyms: Bucephela clangula, whistler |
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| (noun) a variety of green lacewing | Synonyms: golden-eyed fly |