| garland | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, lei, wreath |
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| (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, miscellany |
| gasfield | (noun) a region where there is natural gas underground | - |
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| gastropod | (noun) a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes | Synonyms: univalve |
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| gatefold | (noun) an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine | Synonyms: foldout |
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| gaud | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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| geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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| gelechiid | (noun) small slender-winged moths whose larvae are agricultural pests | Synonyms: gelechiid moth |
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| gempylid | (noun) snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide | - |
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| geometrid | (noun) slender-bodied broad-winged moth whose larvae are called measuring worms | Synonyms: geometrid moth |
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| gerund | (noun) a noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun) | - |
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| gesneriad | (noun) any of numerous tropical or subtropical small shrubs or treelets or epiphytic vines of the family Gesneriaceae: African violet; Cape primroses; gloxinia | - |
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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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| gingerbread | (noun) cake flavored with ginger | - |
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| girlfriend | (noun) a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved | Synonyms: girl, lady friend |
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| (noun) any female friend | - |
| girlhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: maidenhood, maidhood |
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| gizzard | (noun) thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food | Synonyms: gastric mill, ventriculus |
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| glad | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated | Synonyms: gladiola, gladiolus, sword lily |
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| gland | (noun) any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream | Synonyms: secreter, secretor, secretory organ |
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| glochid | (noun) a barbed spine or bristle (often tufted on cacti) | Synonyms: glochidium |
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| glucocorticoid | (noun) a steroid hormone that is produced by the adrenal cortex of animals; affects functioning of gonads and has anti-inflammatory activity | - |
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| gnathopod | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: maxilliped |
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| 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 |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| goldenrod | (noun) any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago | - |
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| goldfield | (noun) a district where gold is mined | - |
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| goldthread | (noun) low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers | Synonyms: Coptis groenlandica, Coptis trifolia groenlandica, golden thread |
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| goliard | (noun) a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs | - |
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| gonad | (noun) a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced | Synonyms: sex gland |
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| good | (noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: commodity, trade good |
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| (noun) benefit | - |
| (noun) moral excellence or admirableness | Synonyms: goodness |
| (noun) that which is pleasing or valuable or useful | Synonyms: goodness |
| gopherwood | (noun) small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye | Synonyms: Cladrastis kentukea, Cladrastis lutea, Kentucky yellowwood |
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| 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 | - |
| gourmand | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman |
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| governed | (noun) the body of people who are citizens of a particular government | - |
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| gracilariid | (noun) small dull or metallic-colored tineoid moths whose larvae mine in plant leaves | Synonyms: gracilariid moth |
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| grad | (noun) a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | Synonyms: alum, graduate |
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| (noun) one-hundredth of a right angle | Synonyms: grade |
| grainfield | (noun) a field where grain is grown | Synonyms: grain field |
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| grand | (noun) a piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs | Synonyms: grand piano |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard |
| grandad | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, granddad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpa |
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| grandchild | (noun) a child of your son or daughter | - |
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| granddad | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpa |
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| grandstand | (noun) a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof | Synonyms: covered stand |
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| (noun) the audience at a stadium or racetrack | - |
| grassland | (noun) land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life | - |
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| gravelweed | (noun) perennial herb with yellow flowers; southern and south central United States | Synonyms: Verbesina helianthoides |
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| graveyard | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, memorial park, necropolis |
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| graybeard | (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: greybeard, Methuselah, old man |
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| greasewood | (noun) low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America | Synonyms: black greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus |
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| greed | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, avaritia, covetousness, rapacity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves | - |
| greenhood | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
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| greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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| greensward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: sod, sward, turf |
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| greenweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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| greenwood | (noun) woodlands in full leaf | - |
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| greybeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, long-beard, longbeard |
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| (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: graybeard, Methuselah, old man |
| greyhound | (noun) a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog | - |
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| grid | (noun) a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat | Synonyms: gridiron |
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| (noun) an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube | Synonyms: control grid |
| (noun) a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region | Synonyms: power grid, power system |
| (noun) a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material | Synonyms: storage-battery grid |
| (noun) a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines | - |
| grind | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: mill, pulverisation, pulverization |
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| (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, plodding |
| (noun) the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground | - |
| (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk |
| ground | (noun) the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface | Synonyms: flat coat, primer, primer coat, priming, priming coat, undercoat |
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| (noun) (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting | - |
| (noun) a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) | Synonyms: earth |
| (noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground | Synonyms: background |
| (noun) a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused | - |
| (noun) a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle) | - |
| (noun) a rational motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: occasion, reason |
| (noun) the solid part of the earth's surface | Synonyms: dry land, earth, land, solid ground, terra firma |
| (noun) material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) | Synonyms: land, soil |
| (noun) a relation that provides the foundation for something | Synonyms: basis, footing |
| (noun) the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface | Synonyms: earth |
| groundspeed | (noun) the speed of an aircraft relative to the ground | - |
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| guard | (noun) a position on a basketball team | - |
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| (noun) the duty of serving as a sentry | Synonyms: guard duty, sentry duty, sentry go |
| (noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage between the center and the tackles | - |
| (noun) a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. | Synonyms: precaution, safeguard |
| (noun) a device designed to prevent injury or accidents | Synonyms: safety, safety device |
| (noun) a posture of defence in boxing or fencing | - |
| (noun) a military unit serving to protect some place or person | - |
| (noun) the person who lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team on the line of scrimmage | - |
| (noun) a person who keeps watch over something or someone | - |
| (noun) the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team | - |
| guideword | (noun) a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page | Synonyms: catchword, guide word |
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| guild | (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, lodge, order, social club, society |
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| gulfweed | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: sargasso, sargassum, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| gumshield | (noun) (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
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| gumweed | (noun) any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: gum plant, rosinweed, tarweed |
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| gumwood | (noun) wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum | Synonyms: gum |
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| gurnard | (noun) bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom | - |
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| gypsyweed | (noun) common hairy European perennial with pale blue or lilac flowers in axillary racemes | Synonyms: common speedwell, Veronica officinalis |
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| haemoproteid | (noun) related to malaria parasite and having a phase in the viscera of various birds | - |
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| haemorrhoid | (noun) venous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter | Synonyms: hemorrhoid, piles |
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| halberd | (noun) a pike fitted with an ax head | - |
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| halliard | (noun) a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag | Synonyms: halyard |
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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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| halyard | (noun) a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag | Synonyms: halliard |
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| hamadryad | (noun) large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja | Synonyms: king cobra, Naja hannah, Ophiophagus hannah |
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| (noun) the nymph or spirit of a particular tree | - |
| hammerhead | (noun) medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous | Synonyms: hammerhead shark |
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| (noun) the striking part of a hammer | - |
| (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
| hand | (noun) physical assistance | Synonyms: helping hand |
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| (noun) terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos) | - |
| (noun) a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece | - |
| (noun) the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb | Synonyms: manus, mitt, paw |
| (noun) ability | - |
| (noun) one of two sides of an issue | - |
| (noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: handwriting, script |
| (noun) a round of applause to signify approval | - |
| (noun) the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time | Synonyms: deal |
| (noun) a position given by its location to the side of an object | - |
| (noun) a hired laborer on a farm or ranch | Synonyms: hired hand, hired man |
| (noun) a card player in a game of bridge | Synonyms: bridge player |
| (noun) a member of the crew of a ship | - |
| (noun) a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses | - |
| handhold | (noun) an appendage to hold onto | - |
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| handicapped | (noun) people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped | Synonyms: disabled |
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| handmaid | (noun) a personal maid or female attendant | Synonyms: handmaiden |
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| (noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaiden, servant |
| handstand | (noun) the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position | - |
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| hangbird | (noun) eastern subspecies of northern oriole | Synonyms: Baltimore bird, Baltimore oriole, firebird, Icterus galbula galbula |
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| haploid | (noun) (genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes | - |
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| hardboard | (noun) a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin | Synonyms: chipboard |
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| hardihood | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardiness |
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| hardwood | (noun) the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers) | - |
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| harpsichord | (noun) a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots | Synonyms: cembalo |
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| hatband | (noun) a band around the crown of a hat just above the brim | - |
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| hatred | (noun) the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action | Synonyms: hate |
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| hawkweed | (noun) any of numerous often hairy plants of the genus Hieracium having yellow or orange flowers that resemble the dandelion | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Pilosella | - |
| hayfield | (noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay | Synonyms: meadow |
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| hayseed | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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| hazard | (noun) an obstacle on a golf course | - |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, luck |
| (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, jeopardy, peril, risk |
| hazelwood | (noun) reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture | Synonyms: red gum, satin walnut, sweet gum |
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| head | (noun) oral stimulation of the genitals | Synonyms: oral sex |
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| (noun) a single domestic animal | - |
| (noun) a projection out from one end | - |
| (noun) a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | Synonyms: drumhead |
| (noun) (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship | - |
| (noun) the striking part of a tool | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk | Synonyms: read/write head |
| (noun) the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains | Synonyms: caput |
| (noun) the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint | - |
| (noun) that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves | - |
| (noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: brain, mind, nous, psyche |
| (noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: header, heading |
| (noun) a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer | Synonyms: point |
| (noun) the subject matter at issue | Synonyms: question |
| (noun) (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent | Synonyms: head word |
| (noun) forward movement | Synonyms: headway |
| (noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: pass, straits |
| (noun) the front of a military formation or procession | - |
| (noun) the top of something | - |
| (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: fountainhead, headspring |
| (noun) the part in the front or nearest the viewer | Synonyms: forefront |
| (noun) the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container | - |
| (noun) a rounded compact mass | - |
| (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: foreland, headland, promontory |
| (noun) a person who is in charge | Synonyms: chief, top dog |
| (noun) the educator who has executive authority for a school | Synonyms: head teacher, principal, school principal |
| (noun) a user of (usually soft) drugs | - |
| (noun) an individual person | - |
| (noun) the pressure exerted by a fluid | - |
| (noun) a dense cluster of flowers or foliage | Synonyms: capitulum |
| (noun) the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head | - |
| (noun) the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates) | - |
| headband | (noun) a band worn around or over the head | - |
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