| ague | (noun) a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: acute, acute accent |
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| (noun) a fit of shivering or shaking | - |
| (noun) successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria | Synonyms: chills and fever |
| agueweed | (noun) gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers | Synonyms: ague weed, five-flowered gentian, Gentiana quinquefolia, Gentianella quinquefolia, stiff gentian |
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| (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
| analogue | (noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analog, parallel |
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| apologue | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: allegory, fable, parable |
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| arguer | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: debater |
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| baguet | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguette |
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| baguette | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguet |
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| beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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| bluetongue | (noun) a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges | - |
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| brogue | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, clodhopper, work shoe |
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| cangue | (noun) an instrument of punishment formerly used in China for petty criminals; consists of a heavy wooden collar enclosing the neck and arms | - |
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| catalogue | (noun) a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things | Synonyms: catalog |
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| (noun) a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically | Synonyms: catalog |
| cataloguer | (noun) a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system | Synonyms: cataloger |
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| colleague | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow |
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| (noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: confrere, fellow |
| daguerreotype | (noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
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| demagogue | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagog, rabble-rouser |
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| demagoguery | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagogy |
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| dengue | (noun) an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints | Synonyms: breakbone fever, dandy fever, dengue fever |
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| dialogue | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialog |
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| (noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, duologue |
| (noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialog |
| (noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: negotiation, talks |
| drogue | (noun) a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly | Synonyms: drogue chute, drogue parachute |
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| (noun) restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind | Synonyms: sea anchor |
| (noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, sock, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock |
| (noun) a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane | - |
| duologue | (noun) a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors | - |
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| (noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, dialogue |
| earthtongue | (noun) any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum | Synonyms: earth-tongue |
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| eclogue | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, idyl, idyll |
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| emmenagogue | (noun) any agent that promotes menstrual discharge | - |
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| epilogue | (noun) a short passage added at the end of a literary work | Synonyms: epilog |
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| (noun) a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play | Synonyms: epilog |
| fatigue | (noun) labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on) | Synonyms: fatigue duty |
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| (noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something | - |
| (noun) temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work | Synonyms: tiredness, weariness |
| (noun) used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress | - |
| fatigues | (noun) military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor | - |
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| fugue | (noun) a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement | - |
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| (noun) a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days | - |
| (noun) dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state | Synonyms: psychogenic fugue |
| galactagogue | (noun) agent that induces milk secretion | - |
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| gigue | (noun) music in three-four time for dancing a jig | Synonyms: jig |
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| guenon | (noun) small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face | Synonyms: guenon monkey |
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| guerdon | (noun) a reward or payment | - |
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| guereza | (noun) a colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body | Synonyms: Colobus guereza |
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| gueridon | (noun) a small round table | - |
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| guerilla | (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerrilla, insurgent, irregular |
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| guerrilla | (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, insurgent, irregular |
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| guess | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guessing, guesswork, shot |
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| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
| guesser | (noun) a person who guesses | - |
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| guessing | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guesswork, shot |
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| guesstimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guestimate |
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| guesswork | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, shot |
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| guest | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: client, node |
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| (noun) a visitor to whom hospitality is extended | Synonyms: invitee |
| (noun) a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc. | - |
| guesthouse | (noun) a house separate from the main house; for housing guests | - |
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| guestimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guesstimate |
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| guestroom | (noun) a bedroom that is kept for the use of guests | - |
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| guestworker | (noun) a person with temporary permission to work in another country | Synonyms: guest worker |
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| harangue | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: rant, ranting |
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| haranguer | (noun) a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech | - |
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| houseguest | (noun) a guest entertained in your house | Synonyms: house guest |
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| hypnagogue | (noun) an agent that induces drowsiness or sleep | - |
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| idealogue | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer |
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| ideologue | (noun) an advocate of some ideology | Synonyms: ideologist |
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| inguen | (noun) the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals | Synonyms: groin |
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| intrigue | (noun) a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends | Synonyms: machination |
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| (noun) a clandestine love affair | - |
| intriguer | (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: designer |
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| league | (noun) an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action | - |
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| (noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: conference |
| (noun) an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles) | - |
| longueur | (noun) a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) | - |
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| maguey | (noun) Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine | Synonyms: Agave cantala, cantala |
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| (noun) Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal | Synonyms: Agave atrovirens |
| marguerite | (noun) tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, Leucanthemum vulgare, moon daisy, ox-eyed daisy, oxeye daisy, white daisy |
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| (noun) perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Argyranthemum frutescens, Chrysanthemum frutescens, marguerite daisy, Paris daisy |
| meringue | (noun) sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar | - |
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| monologue | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: soliloquy |
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| (noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor | - |
| (noun) a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation) | - |
| morgue | (noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation | Synonyms: dead room, mortuary |
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| oxtongue | (noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, bugloss, Picris echioides |
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| pedagogue | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagog |
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| philologue | (noun) a humanist specializing in classical scholarship | Synonyms: philologist |
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| pinguecula | (noun) a slightly elevated elastic tissue deposit in the conjunctiva that may extend to the cornea but does not cover it | - |
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| pirogue | (noun) a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log | Synonyms: dugout, dugout canoe |
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| plague | (noun) an annoyance | - |
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| (noun) any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) | - |
| (noun) a swarm of insects that attack plants | Synonyms: infestation |
| (noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestilence, pestis |
| (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, pestilence |
| prologue | (noun) an introduction to a play | - |
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| rogue | (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
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| roguery | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| segue | (noun) the act of changing smoothly from one state or situation to another | - |
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| synagogue | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: tabernacle, temple |
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| tongue | (noun) the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot | - |
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| (noun) metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side | Synonyms: clapper |
| (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: clapper, glossa, lingua |
| (noun) a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language | Synonyms: natural language |
| (noun) a manner of speaking | - |
| (noun) the tongue of certain animals used as meat | - |
| (noun) a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea | Synonyms: spit |
| (noun) any long thin projection that is transient | Synonyms: knife |
| tonguefish | (noun) left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value | Synonyms: tongue-fish |
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| tongueflower | (noun) orchid having blue to purple flowers with tongue-shaped or strap-shaped protuberances (calli) at the lip base | Synonyms: tongue-flower |
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| travelogue | (noun) a film or illustrated lecture on traveling | Synonyms: travelog |
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| unguent | (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, ointment, salve, unction |
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| vagueness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning | - |
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| (noun) indistinctness of shape or character | - |
| vogue | (noun) the popular taste at a given time | Synonyms: style, trend |
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| (noun) a current state of general acceptance and use | - |