| gen | (noun) informal term for information | - |
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| gendarme | (noun) a French policeman | - |
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| gendarmerie | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmery |
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| gendarmery | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmerie |
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| gender | (noun) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | Synonyms: sex, sexuality |
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| (noun) a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness | Synonyms: grammatical gender |
| gene | (noun) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | Synonyms: cistron, factor |
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| genealogist | (noun) an expert in genealogy | - |
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| genealogy | (noun) the study or investigation of ancestry and family history | - |
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| (noun) successive generations of kin | Synonyms: family tree |
| general | (noun) a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular) | - |
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| (noun) a general officer of the highest rank | Synonyms: full general |
| (noun) the head of a religious order or congregation | Synonyms: superior general |
| generalcy | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalship |
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| generalisation | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generality, generalization |
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| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalization, induction, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalization, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalization |
| generalissimo | (noun) the officer who holds the supreme command | Synonyms: commander-in-chief, commander in chief |
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| generalist | (noun) a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests | Synonyms: Renaissance man |
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| generality | (noun) the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability | - |
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| (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization |
| generalization | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generality |
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| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalisation, induction, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalisation, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalisation |
| generalship | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalcy |
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| (noun) the leadership ability of a military general | - |
| generation | (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | Synonyms: multiplication, propagation |
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| (noun) the production of heat or electricity | - |
| (noun) a coming into being | Synonyms: genesis |
| (noun) group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent | - |
| (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, contemporaries |
| (noun) the normal time between successive generations | - |
| (noun) a stage of technological development or innovation | - |
| generator | (noun) engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction | - |
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| (noun) an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas | - |
| (noun) an electronic device for producing a signal voltage | - |
| (noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: author, source |
| generic | (noun) any product that can be sold without a brand name | - |
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| (noun) wine that does not meet the minimum qualifications and standards for use of a designation by appellation of origin (where the grapes are grown) or by varietal content; may only be labeled by proprietary (made-up) name, by general color (such as `vin rouge', `vino rosso', `rotwein', `red wine', etc.), or by general class (as `vin ordinaire', `vin de table', `vino da tavola', `tafelwein', `table wine', etc.) | Synonyms: generic wine |
| generosity | (noun) acting generously | Synonyms: unselfishness |
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| (noun) the trait of being willing to give your money or time | Synonyms: generousness |
| generousness | (noun) the trait of being willing to give your money or time | Synonyms: generosity |
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| genesis | (noun) a coming into being | Synonyms: generation |
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| genet | (noun) agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail | Synonyms: Genetta genetta |
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| geneticism | (noun) the belief that all human characteristics are determined genetically | - |
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| geneticist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in genetics | - |
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| genetics | (noun) the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms | Synonyms: genetic science |
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| geneva | (noun) gin made in the Netherlands | Synonyms: Holland gin, Hollands |
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| geniality | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie |
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| genie | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinni, djinny, jinnee, jinni |
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| genip | (noun) round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes | Synonyms: Spanish lime |
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| (noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: ginep, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |
| genipa | (noun) any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind | - |
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| genipap | (noun) a succulent orange-sized tropical fruit with a thick rind | Synonyms: genipap fruit |
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| genitalia | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitals, private parts, privates |
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| genitals | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, private parts, privates |
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| genitive | (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive case, possessive, possessive case |
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| genitor | (noun) a natural father or mother | - |
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| genius | (noun) exceptional creative ability | Synonyms: wizardry |
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| (noun) a natural talent | Synonyms: flair |
| (noun) unusual mental ability | Synonyms: brilliance |
| (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brain, brainiac, Einstein, mastermind |
| (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
| genlisea | (noun) rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle to form traps; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs | - |
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| genocide | (noun) systematic killing of a racial or cultural group | Synonyms: race murder, racial extermination |
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| genoise | (noun) rich and delicate Italian sponge cake | - |
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| genome | (noun) the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism | - |
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| genomics | (noun) the branch of genetics that studies organisms in terms of their genomes (their full DNA sequences) | - |
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| genotype | (noun) the particular alleles at specified loci present in an organism | Synonyms: genetic constitution |
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| (noun) a group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution | - |
| genre | (noun) a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique | - |
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| (noun) a kind of literary or artistic work | - |
| (noun) a style of expressing yourself in writing | Synonyms: literary genre, writing style |
| gens | (noun) family based on male descent | Synonyms: name |
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| gent | (noun) informal abbreviation of `gentleman' | - |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, lad |
| gentamicin | (noun) an antibiotic (trade name Garamycin) that is derived from an actinomycete; used in treating infections of the urinary tract | Synonyms: Garamycin |
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| genteelness | (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: breeding, gentility |
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| gentian | (noun) any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis | - |
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| gentianella | (noun) low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Gentiana acaulis |
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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 | - |
| gentility | (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: breeding, genteelness |
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| gentlefolk | (noun) people of good family and breeding and high social status | - |
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| gentleman | (noun) a man of refinement | - |
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| (noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, man, valet, valet de chambre |
| gentlemanliness | (noun) Gentlemanly behaviour, characteristics of or pertaining to being a gentleman. | - |
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| gentleness | (noun) acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered | Synonyms: mildness, softness |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual | Synonyms: gradualness |
| gentlewoman | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, lady, ma'am, madam |
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| gentrification | (noun) the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents) | - |
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| gentry | (noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: aristocracy |
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| genu | (noun) hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella | Synonyms: articulatio genus, human knee, knee, knee joint |
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| genuflection | (noun) the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence | Synonyms: genuflexion |
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| genuflexion | (noun) the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence | Synonyms: genuflection |
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| genuineness | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: authenticity, legitimacy |
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| (noun) the state of being genuine | - |
| genus | (noun) a general kind of something | - |
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| (noun) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species | - |