| 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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| gilder | (noun) someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt | - |
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| gildhall | (noun) the meeting place of a medieval guild | - |
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| gilding | (noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold | Synonyms: gilt |
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| gill | (noun) respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water | Synonyms: branchia |
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| (noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: lamella |
| (noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces | - |
| (noun) a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters | - |
| gillie | (noun) a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep | Synonyms: ghillie |
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| (noun) a young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief | - |
| gillyflower | (noun) Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | Synonyms: carnation, clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus |
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| (noun) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers | Synonyms: stock |
| gilt | (noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold | Synonyms: gilding |
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| gimbal | (noun) an appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips | - |
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| gimcrack | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| gimcrackery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery |
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| gimel | (noun) the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| gimlet | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: auger, screw auger, wimble |
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| (noun) a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice | - |
| gimmick | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: device, twist |
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| (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
| (noun) a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident | Synonyms: catch |
| gimmickry | (noun) a collection of gimmicks | - |
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| gimp | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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| gimpiness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, lameness, limping |
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| gin | (noun) a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points | Synonyms: gin rummy, knock rummy |
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| (noun) a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers | Synonyms: cotton gin |
| (noun) a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose | Synonyms: noose, snare |
| (noun) strong liquor flavored with juniper berries | - |
| ginep | (noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: genip, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |
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| ginger | (noun) liveliness and energy | Synonyms: pep, peppiness |
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| (noun) dried ground gingerroot | Synonyms: powdered ginger |
| (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: gingerroot |
| (noun) perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems | - |
| gingerbread | (noun) cake flavored with ginger | - |
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| gingerol | (noun) derived from ginger; source of the hotness of ginger | - |
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| gingerroot | (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: ginger |
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| gingersnap | (noun) a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger | Synonyms: ginger nut, ginger snap, snap |
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| gingham | (noun) a clothing fabric in a plaid weave | - |
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| gingiva | (noun) the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth | Synonyms: gum |
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| gingivitis | (noun) inflammation of the gums | - |
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| gingko | (noun) deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree | Synonyms: ginkgo, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree |
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| ginglymus | (noun) a freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane | Synonyms: ginglymoid joint, hinge joint |
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| ginkgo | (noun) deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree | Synonyms: gingko, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree |
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| ginmill | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, barroom, saloon, taproom |
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| ginseng | (noun) Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers | Synonyms: nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax pseudoginseng, Panax schinseng |
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| (noun) aromatic root of ginseng plants | - |
| ginzo | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, greaseball, Guinea, wop |
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| gip | (noun) (sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating | Synonyms: gyp |
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| gipsy | (noun) a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment | Synonyms: gypsy, itinerant |
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| (noun) a person who resembles a Romani in leading an unconventional, nomadic way of life | Synonyms: gypsy |
| gipsywort | (noun) hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers | Synonyms: gypsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
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| giraffe | (noun) tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa | Synonyms: camelopard, Giraffa camelopardalis |
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| girandola | (noun) an ornate candle holder; often with a mirror | Synonyms: girandole |
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| girandole | (noun) an ornate candle holder; often with a mirror | Synonyms: girandola |
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| girasol | (noun) tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers | Synonyms: Helianthus tuberosus, Jerusalem artichoke, Jerusalem artichoke sunflower |
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| (noun) an opal with flaming orange and yellow and red colors | Synonyms: fire opal |
| girder | (noun) a beam made usually of steel; a main support in a structure | - |
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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 | - |
| girl | (noun) a young female | Synonyms: fille, miss, missy, young lady, young woman |
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| (noun) a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved | Synonyms: girlfriend, lady friend |
| (noun) a youthful female person | Synonyms: female child, little girl |
| (noun) a friendly informal reference to a grown woman | - |
| (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: daughter |
| 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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| girlishness | (noun) being characteristic of a girl | - |
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| giro | (noun) a British financial system in which a bank or a post office transfers money from one account to another when they receive authorization to do so | - |
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| (noun) a check given by the British government to someone who is unemployed; it can be cashed either at a bank or at the post office | Synonyms: giro cheque |
| girth | (noun) stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place | Synonyms: cinch |
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| (noun) the distance around a person's body | - |
| gismo | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, widget |
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| (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
| gist | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, effect, essence |
| git | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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| gitana | (noun) a Spanish female Gypsy | - |
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| gitano | (noun) a Spanish male Gypsy | - |
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| gittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, cittern |
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| give | (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: spring, springiness |
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| giveaway | (noun) an unintentional disclosure | - |
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| (noun) a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards | Synonyms: game show |
| (noun) a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group | - |
| given | (noun) an assumption that is taken for granted | Synonyms: precondition, presumption |
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| givenness | (noun) the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed | - |
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| giver | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: bestower, conferrer, donor, presenter |
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| (noun) someone who devotes himself completely | - |
| giving | (noun) the act of giving | Synonyms: gift |
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| (noun) disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return | - |
| (noun) the imparting of news or promises etc. | - |
| gizmo | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, widget |
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| (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
| 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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