gemmule | (noun) the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity | - |
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gentile | (noun) a Christian as contrasted with a Jew | Synonyms: goy, non-Jew |
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(noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: heathen, infidel, pagan |
(noun) a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus | - |
(noun) a Christian | - |
gerbille | (noun) small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: gerbil |
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gigacycle | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle per second, gigahertz |
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giggle | (noun) a foolish or nervous laugh | - |
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girandole | (noun) an ornate candle holder; often with a mirror | Synonyms: girandola |
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girdle | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | Synonyms: corset, stays |
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(noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: cincture, sash, waistband, waistcloth |
(noun) an encircling or ringlike structure | - |
glareole | (noun) Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers | Synonyms: pratincole |
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globule | (noun) a small globe or ball | - |
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glomerule | (noun) a compacted or sessile cyme | - |
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gloriole | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, aureole, glory, halo, nimbus |
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glycerole | (noun) a medicine made by mixing a substance in glycerin | Synonyms: glycerite |
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gobble | (noun) the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock | - |
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grackle | (noun) long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage | Synonyms: crow blackbird |
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(noun) glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech | Synonyms: Gracula religiosa, hill myna, Indian grackle |
granduncle | (noun) an uncle of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-uncle |
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granule | (noun) a tiny grain | - |
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grapple | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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(noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapnel, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron |
(noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: clamshell |
graticule | (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: reticle, reticule |
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greenbottle | (noun) blowfly with brilliant coppery green body | Synonyms: greenbottle fly |
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griddle | (noun) cooking utensil consisting of a flat heated surface (as on top of a stove) on which food is cooked | - |
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grille | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grillwork |
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(noun) grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator | Synonyms: radiator grille |
(noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: lattice, wicket |
grindle | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, dogfish |
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grisaille | (noun) chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief | - |
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gristle | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: cartilage |
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grizzle | (noun) a grey wig | - |
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grumble | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
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(noun) a loud low dull continuous noise | Synonyms: grumbling, rumble, rumbling |
guacamole | (noun) a dip made of mashed avocado mixed with chopped onions and other seasonings | - |
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guayule | (noun) much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber | Synonyms: Parthenium argentatum |
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guile | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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(noun) the quality of being crafty | Synonyms: craftiness |
(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness |
gunwale | (noun) wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel | Synonyms: gun rest, gunnel |
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gurgle | (noun) the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck | - |
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hackle | (noun) long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants | - |
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haematocele | (noun) swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis) | Synonyms: haematocoele, hematocele, hematocoele |
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haematocoele | (noun) swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis) | Synonyms: haematocele, hematocele, hematocoele |
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haemophile | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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haggle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggling, wrangle, wrangling |
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hairstyle | (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coif, coiffure, hair style, hairdo |
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halophile | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophil |
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handle | (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handgrip, hold |
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hassle | (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: dogfight, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
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(noun) an angry disturbance | Synonyms: bother, fuss, trouble |
hawsehole | (noun) the hole that an anchor rope passes through | Synonyms: hawse, hawsepipe |
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heckle | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: hatchel |
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hellhole | (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell, hell on earth, inferno, snake pit, the pits |
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hematocele | (noun) swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis) | Synonyms: haematocele, haematocoele, hematocoele |
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hematocoele | (noun) swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis) | Synonyms: haematocele, haematocoele, hematocele |
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hemicycle | (noun) a plane figure with the shape of half a circle | Synonyms: semicircle |
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hemophile | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophiliac |
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heptasyllable | (noun) a word or line of verse of seven syllables. | - |
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heterocycle | (noun) a ring of atoms of more than one kind; especially a ring of carbon atoms containing at least one atom that is not carbon | Synonyms: heterocyclic ring |
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(noun) a compound containing a heterocyclic ring | Synonyms: heterocyclic, heterocyclic compound |
hobble | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hitch, limp |
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(noun) a shackle for the ankles or feet | Synonyms: fetter |
hole | (noun) an opening deliberately made in or through something | - |
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(noun) one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course | Synonyms: golf hole |
(noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, gob, maw, trap, yap |
(noun) an opening into or through something | - |
(noun) a depression hollowed out of solid matter | Synonyms: hollow |
(noun) an unoccupied space | - |
(noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle |
(noun) a fault | - |
homophile | (noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homo, homosexual |
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honeysuckle | (noun) shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera | - |
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(noun) columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers | Synonyms: Aquilegia canadensis, meeting house |
(noun) shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers | Synonyms: Australian honeysuckle, Banksia integrifolia, coast banksia |
hostile | (noun) troops belonging to the enemy's military forces | - |
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huddle | (noun) (informal) a quick private conference | Synonyms: powwow |
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(noun) a disorganized and densely packed crowd | - |
hurdle | (noun) the act of jumping over an obstacle | Synonyms: vault |
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(noun) a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races | - |
(noun) an obstacle that you are expected to overcome | - |
hustle | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, bustle, flurry, fuss, stir |
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(noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, sting |
hydrocele | (noun) disorder in which serous fluid accumulates in a body sac (especially in the scrotum) | - |
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hyperbole | (noun) extravagant exaggeration | Synonyms: exaggeration |
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icicle | (noun) ice resembling a pendent spear, formed by the freezing of dripping water | - |
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idle | (noun) the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling | - |
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imbecile | (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, moron, retard |
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imidazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, iminazole |
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iminazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, imidazole |
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immortelle | (noun) mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere | Synonyms: Xeranthemum annuum |
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immovable | (noun) property consisting of houses and land | Synonyms: real estate, real property, realty |
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imponderable | (noun) a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed | - |
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impossible | (noun) something that cannot be done | - |
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incurable | (noun) a person whose disease is incurable | - |
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indole | (noun) a white or yellowish crystalline heterocyclic compound extracted from coal tar and used in perfumery, medicine, and as a flavouring agent. | - |
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inevitable | (noun) an unavoidable event | - |
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inkle | (noun) a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration | - |
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innersole | (noun) the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests | Synonyms: insole |
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insole | (noun) the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests | Synonyms: innersole |
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intangible | (noun) assets that are saleable though not material or physical | Synonyms: intangible asset |
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invariable | (noun) a quantity that does not vary | Synonyms: constant, constant quantity |
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isle | (noun) a small island | Synonyms: islet |
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itraconazole | (noun) an oral antifungal drug (trade name Sporanox) taken for cases of fungal nail disease | Synonyms: Sporanox |
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jangle | (noun) a metallic sound | Synonyms: jingle |
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jiggle | (noun) a slight irregular shaking motion | Synonyms: joggle |
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jingle | (noun) a comic verse of irregular measure | Synonyms: doggerel, doggerel verse |
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(noun) a metallic sound | Synonyms: jangle |
joggle | (noun) a slight irregular shaking motion | Synonyms: jiggle |
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(noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel, dowel pin |
jostle | (noun) the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) | Synonyms: jostling |
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joule | (noun) a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second | Synonyms: J, watt second |
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jugale | (noun) the craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone | Synonyms: jugal point |
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juggle | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggling |
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(noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggling |
jumble | (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: hodgepodge, patchwork |
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(noun) small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie | Synonyms: jumbal |
(noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
jungle | (noun) a place where hoboes camp | Synonyms: hobo camp |
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(noun) an impenetrable equatorial forest | - |
(noun) a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival | - |
juvenile | (noun) a young person, not fully developed | Synonyms: juvenile person |
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kale | (noun) coarse curly-leafed cabbage | Synonyms: cole, kail |
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(noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kail |
(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
keratocele | (noun) hernia of the cornea | - |
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kerfuffle | (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, to-do |
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kettle | (noun) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid | Synonyms: boiler |
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(noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettledrum, timpani, tympani, tympanum |
(noun) (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits | Synonyms: kettle hole |
(noun) the quantity a kettle will hold | Synonyms: kettleful |
keyhole | (noun) the hole where a key is inserted | - |
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kibble | (noun) an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining | - |
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(noun) coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food) | - |
kilocycle | (noun) one thousand periods per second | Synonyms: kc, kHz, kilocycle per second, kilohertz |
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kirtle | (noun) a long dress worn by women | - |
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(noun) a garment resembling a tunic that was worn by men in the Middle Ages | - |
knobble | (noun) a small knob | - |
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knothole | (noun) a hole in a board where a knot came out | - |
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knuckle | (noun) a joint of a finger when the fist is closed | Synonyms: knuckle joint, metacarpophalangeal joint |
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