| gourd | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: calabash |
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| (noun) any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds | Synonyms: gourd vine |
| (noun) any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds | - |
| gourde | (noun) the basic unit of money in Haiti | - |
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| gourmand | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman |
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| gourmandism | (noun) the disposition and habits of a gourmand | - |
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| gourmandizer | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, trencherman |
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| gourmet | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, foodie, gastronome |
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| gout | (noun) a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints | Synonyms: gouty arthritis, urarthritis |
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| governance | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governing, government, government activity |
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| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governing body, organisation, organization |
| governed | (noun) the body of people who are citizens of a particular government | - |
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| governess | (noun) a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home) | - |
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| governing | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, government, government activity |
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| government | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, governing, government activity |
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| (noun) (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed | - |
| (noun) the study of government of states and other political units | Synonyms: political science, politics |
| (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, regime |
| governor | (noun) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | Synonyms: regulator |
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| (noun) the head of a state government | - |
| governorship | (noun) the office of governor | - |
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| gown | (noun) a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions | - |
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| (noun) outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: robe |
| (noun) protective garment worn by surgeons during operations | Synonyms: scrubs, surgical gown |
| (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: night-robe, nightdress, nightgown, nightie |
| (noun) the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located | - |
| goy | (noun) a Christian as contrasted with a Jew | Synonyms: gentile, non-Jew |
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| gringo | (noun) a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen) | - |
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| hangout | (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: haunt, repair, resort, stamping ground |
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| hangover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: holdover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: holdover |
| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: katzenjammer |
| heptagon | (noun) a seven-sided polygon | - |
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| heterozygosity | (noun) the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene | - |
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| heterozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring | - |
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| hexagon | (noun) a six-sided polygon | - |
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| hobgoblin | (noun) an object of dread or apprehension | Synonyms: bugbear |
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| (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: goblin, hob |
| homozygosity | (noun) the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene | - |
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| homozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic | - |
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| hoosegow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosgow |
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| hoosgow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosegow |
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| hypermastigote | (noun) flagellate symbiotic in the intestines of e.g. termites | - |
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| hypnagogue | (noun) an agent that induces drowsiness or sleep | - |
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| hypogonadism | (noun) incompetence of the gonads (especially in the male with low testosterone); results in deficient development of secondary sex characteristics and (in prepubertal males) a body with long legs and a short trunk | - |
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| hysterosalpingogram | (noun) X ray of the uterus and Fallopian tubes; usually done in diagnosing infertility (to see if there any blockages) | - |
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| imago | (noun) an adult insect produced after metamorphosis | - |
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| (noun) (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood | - |
| impetigo | (noun) a very contagious infection of the skin; common in children; localized redness develops into small blisters that gradually crust and erode | - |
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| indigo | (noun) a blue-violet color | - |
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| (noun) deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye | Synonyms: indigo plant, Indigofera tinctoria |
| (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigotin |
| indigotin | (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigo |
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| ingot | (noun) metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling | - |
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| intertrigo | (noun) chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs) | - |
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| invigoration | (noun) the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something | Synonyms: animation, vivification |
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| (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: animation, brio, spiritedness, vivification |
| invigorator | (noun) an agent that gives or restores life or vigor | Synonyms: enlivener, quickener |
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| isogon | (noun) an equiangular polygon | - |
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| isogone | (noun) an imaginary line connecting points on the Earth's surface where the magnetic declination is the same | Synonyms: isogonal line, isogonic line |
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| jargon | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| (noun) specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject | - |
| (noun) a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon | Synonyms: jargoon |
| jargoon | (noun) a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon | Synonyms: jargon |
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| jingo | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| jingoism | (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: chauvinism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
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| (noun) an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions | Synonyms: flag waving |
| jingoist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, patrioteer |
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| lagomorph | (noun) relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: gnawing mammal |
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| lagoon | (noun) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | Synonyms: laguna, lagune |
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| lagophthalmos | (noun) abnormal condition in which an eye cannot close completely | - |
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| langouste | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: crayfish, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
| langoustine | (noun) caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster | Synonyms: Norwegian lobster, scampo |
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| lanugo | (noun) the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation | - |
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| largo | (noun) (music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner | - |
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| laryngopharyngitis | (noun) inflammation of the larynx and pharynx | - |
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| laryngopharynx | (noun) the lower part of the pharynx | - |
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| laryngoscope | (noun) a medical instrument for examining the larynx | - |
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| laryngospasm | (noun) a closure of the larynx that blocks the passage of air to the lungs | - |
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| laryngostenosis | (noun) abnormal narrowing of the larynx | - |
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| laryngotracheobronchitis | (noun) inflammation of the larynx and trachea and bronchial passageways | - |
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| lentigo | (noun) a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | Synonyms: freckle |
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| lingo | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| lingonberry | (noun) tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller | Synonyms: cowberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry |
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| (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
| logo | (noun) a company emblem or device | Synonyms: logotype |
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| logogram | (noun) a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation | Synonyms: logograph |
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| logograph | (noun) a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation | Synonyms: logogram |
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| logomach | (noun) someone given to disputes over words | Synonyms: logomachist |
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| logomachist | (noun) someone given to disputes over words | Synonyms: logomach |
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| logomachy | (noun) argument about words or the meaning of words | - |
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| logomania | (noun) pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | Synonyms: logorrhea |
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| logorrhea | (noun) pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | Synonyms: logomania |
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| logotype | (noun) a company emblem or device | Synonyms: logo |
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| loligo | (noun) somewhat flattened cylindrical squid | - |
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| lumbago | (noun) backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc | Synonyms: lumbar pain |
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| maggot | (noun) the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter | - |
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| mango | (noun) large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed | - |
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| (noun) large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit | Synonyms: Mangifera indica, mango tree |
| mangold | (noun) beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed | Synonyms: Beta vulgaris vulgaris, mangel-wurzel, mangold-wurzel |
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| mangonel | (noun) catapult operated by manpower pulling cords attached to a lever and slign to launch projectiles | Synonyms: bricole, traction trebuchet |
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| mangosteen | (noun) two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples | - |
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| (noun) East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Garcinia mangostana, mangosteen tree |
| margosa | (noun) large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | Synonyms: arishth, Azadirachta indica, Melia Azadirachta, neem, neem tree, nim tree |
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| marigold | (noun) any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers | - |
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| martagon | (noun) lily with small dull purple flowers of northwestern Europe and northwestern Asia | Synonyms: Lilium martagon, Turk's-cap |
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| mastigophoran | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophore |
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| mastigophore | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran |
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| megohm | (noun) a unit of resistance equal to one million ohms | - |
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| meningocele | (noun) a congenital anomaly of the central nervous system in which a sac protruding from the brain or the spinal meninges contains cerebrospinal fluid (but no nerve tissue) | - |
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| meningoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis |
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| milkwagon | (noun) wagon for delivering milk | Synonyms: milk wagon |
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| misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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| mishegoss | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: meshugaas, mishegaas |
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| monggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
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| (noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
| mongo | (noun) 100 mongo equal 1 tugrik in Mongolia | - |
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| mongolianism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolism, trisomy 21 |
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| mongolism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolianism, trisomy 21 |
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| mongoloid | (noun) a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense, now considered offensive) | - |
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| mongoose | (noun) agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents | - |
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| morangoska | (noun) a Portuguese variation of Caipirinha made using strawberries instead of lime. | - |
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| mortgagor | (noun) the person who gives a mortgage in return for money to be repaid | Synonyms: mortgager |
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| moviegoer | (noun) someone who goes to see movies | Synonyms: motion-picture fan |
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| munggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |
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| (noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |