| geometrid | (noun) slender-bodied broad-winged moth whose larvae are called measuring worms | Synonyms: geometrid moth |
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| geometry | (noun) the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces | - |
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| geomorphology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms | Synonyms: morphology |
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| geophagia | (noun) eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior | Synonyms: geophagy |
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| geophagy | (noun) eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior | Synonyms: geophagia |
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| geophysicist | (noun) a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth | - |
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| geophysics | (noun) geology that uses physical principles to study properties of the earth | Synonyms: geophysical science |
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| geophyte | (noun) a perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms | - |
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| geopolitics | (noun) the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state | - |
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| geordie | (noun) the nonstandard dialect of natives of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | - |
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| georgette | (noun) a thin silk dress material | - |
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| geosphere | (noun) the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | Synonyms: lithosphere |
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| geostrategy | (noun) the branch of geopolitics dealing with strategy | - |
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| geotropism | (noun) an orienting response to gravity | - |
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| geranium | (noun) any of numerous plants of the family Geraniaceae | - |
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| gerardia | (noun) any plant of the genus Gerardia | - |
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| gerbil | (noun) small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: gerbille |
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| 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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| gerenuk | (noun) slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns | Synonyms: Litocranius walleri |
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| gerfalcon | (noun) large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases | Synonyms: Falco rusticolus, gyrfalcon |
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| geriatrician | (noun) a specialist in gerontology | Synonyms: gerontologist |
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| geriatrics | (noun) the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people | Synonyms: gerontology |
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| germ | (noun) a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use | Synonyms: bug, microbe |
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| (noun) a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism | - |
| (noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work | Synonyms: seed, source |
| germander | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Teucrium | - |
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| germaneness | (noun) pertinence by virtue of a close relation to the matter at hand | - |
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| germanite | (noun) a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide | - |
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| germanium | (noun) a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite | Synonyms: atomic number 32, Ge |
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| germicide | (noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobial, antimicrobic, disinfectant |
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| germination | (noun) the origin of some development | - |
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| (noun) the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow | Synonyms: sprouting |
| gerontocracy | (noun) a political system governed by old men | - |
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| gerontologist | (noun) a specialist in gerontology | Synonyms: geriatrician |
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| gerontology | (noun) the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people | Synonyms: geriatrics |
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| gerrymander | (noun) an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) | - |
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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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| gesneria | (noun) any plant of the genus Gesneria | - |
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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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| gesso | (noun) gypsum or plaster of Paris spread on a surface to make it suitable for painting or gilding (or a surface so prepared) | - |
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| gestalt | (noun) a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts | - |
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| gestation | (noun) the conception and development of an idea or plan | - |
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| (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: maternity, pregnancy |
| (noun) the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans) | Synonyms: gestation period |
| gesticulation | (noun) a deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion | - |
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| gesture | (noun) motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling | - |
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| (noun) something done as an indication of intention | - |
| (noun) the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals | Synonyms: motion |
| get | (noun) a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent | - |
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| geta | (noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: clog, patten, sabot |
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| getaway | (noun) a rapid escape (as by criminals) | Synonyms: lam |
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| (noun) the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration | Synonyms: pickup |
| getting | (noun) the act of acquiring something | Synonyms: acquiring |
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| getup | (noun) a set of clothing (with accessories) | Synonyms: outfit, rig, turnout |
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| gewgaw | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, novelty, trinket |
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| geyser | (noun) a spring that discharges hot water and steam | - |
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| gharry | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage in India | - |
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| ghastliness | (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: grimness, gruesomeness, luridness |
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| ghat | (noun) stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water | - |
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| ghatti | (noun) an Indian gum from the dhawa tree; used as a substitute for gum arabic | Synonyms: ghatti gum |
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| ghee | (noun) clarified butter used in Indian cookery | - |
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| gherkin | (noun) small prickly cucumber | - |
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| (noun) any of various small cucumbers pickled whole | - |
| ghetto | (noun) formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live | - |
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| (noun) a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions | - |
| (noun) any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping | - |
| ghillie | (noun) a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep | Synonyms: gillie |
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| ghost | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: shade, specter, spectre, spook, wraith |
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| (noun) a suggestion of some quality | Synonyms: touch, trace |
| (noun) the visible disembodied soul of a dead person | - |
| (noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | Synonyms: ghostwriter |
| ghostfish | (noun) eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth | Synonyms: Cryptacanthodes maculatus, wrymouth |
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| ghostliness | (noun) strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear | Synonyms: eeriness |
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| ghostwriter | (noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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| ghoul | (noun) an evil spirit or ghost | - |
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| (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, graverobber |
| ghrelin | (noun) a gastrointestinal hormone produced by epithelial cells lining the fundus of the stomach; appears to be a stimulant for appetite and feeding, but is also a strong stimulant of growth hormone secretion from the anterior pituitary | - |
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| giant | (noun) any creature of exceptional size | - |
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| (noun) an unusually large enterprise | - |
| (noun) a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun) | Synonyms: giant star |
| (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, goliath, monster |
| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, heavyweight, titan |
| (noun) an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales | - |
| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: heavyweight, hulk, whale |
| giantess | (noun) a female giant | - |
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| giantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: gigantism |
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| (noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: gigantism, overgrowth |
| giardia | (noun) a suspected cause of diarrhea in humans | - |
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| giardiasis | (noun) infection of the intestines with protozoa found in contaminated food and water; characterized by diarrhea and nausea and flatulence and abdominal discomfort | - |
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| gib | (noun) a castrated tomcat | - |
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| gibber | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibberish |
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| gibberellin | (noun) a plant hormone isolated from a fungus; used in promoting plant growth | - |
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| gibberish | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibber |
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| gibbet | (noun) alternative terms for gallows | Synonyms: gallous, gallows-tree, gallows tree |
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| gibbon | (noun) smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies | Synonyms: Hylobates lar |
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| gibbosity | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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| gibbousness | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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| gibbsite | (noun) white crystalline mineral consisting of aluminum hydroxide; a constituent of bauxite and a source of alumina | - |
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| gibe | (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
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| gibibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibits or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bits | Synonyms: Gibit |
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| gibibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB, GiB, gigabyte |
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| giblet | (noun) edible viscera of a fowl | Synonyms: giblets |
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| giblets | (noun) edible viscera of a fowl | Synonyms: giblet |
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| giddiness | (noun) an impulsive scatterbrained manner | Synonyms: silliness |
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| (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, lightheadedness, vertigo |
| gidgee | (noun) scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms | Synonyms: Acacia cambegei, stinking wattle |
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| gifset | (noun) A set of images in the GIF format | - |
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| gift | (noun) the act of giving | Synonyms: giving |
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| (noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: endowment, natural endowment, talent |
| (noun) something acquired without compensation | - |
| gig | (noun) a booking for musicians | - |
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| (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood | - |
| (noun) tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain | - |
| (noun) long and light rowing boat; especially for racing | - |
| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, lance, spear |
| (noun) a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting | - |
| gigabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Gb, Gbit |
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| gigabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB, GiB, gibibyte |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB |
| gigacycle | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle per second, gigahertz |
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| gigaflop | (noun) a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating point operations per second. | Synonyms: billion floating point operations per second, GFLOPS |
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| gigahertz | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle, gigacycle per second |
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| gigantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: giantism |
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| (noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, overgrowth |
| gigatonne | (noun) a unit of weight equivalent to 1 billion tonnes. | Synonyms: Gt |
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| giggle | (noun) a foolish or nervous laugh | - |
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| giggler | (noun) a person who laughs nervously | Synonyms: titterer |
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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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| gigue | (noun) music in three-four time for dancing a jig | Synonyms: jig |
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| gilbert | (noun) a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns | Synonyms: Gb, Gi |
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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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