| glabella | (noun) a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges | Synonyms: mesophyron |
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| glaciation | (noun) the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being covered with glaciers or masses of ice; the result of glacial action | - |
| glacier | (noun) a slowly moving mass of ice | - |
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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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| gladdon | (noun) iris with purple flowers and foul-smelling leaves; southern and western Europe and North Africa | Synonyms: gladdon iris, Iris foetidissima, roast beef plant, stinking gladwyn, stinking iris |
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| glade | (noun) a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area | Synonyms: clearing |
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| gladfulness | (noun) experiencing joy and pleasure | Synonyms: gladness, gladsomeness |
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| gladiator | (noun) (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer | Synonyms: prizefighter |
| gladiola | (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: glad, gladiolus, sword lily |
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| gladiolus | (noun) the large central part of the breastbone | Synonyms: corpus sternum |
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| (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: glad, gladiola, sword lily |
| gladness | (noun) experiencing joy and pleasure | Synonyms: gladfulness, gladsomeness |
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| gladsomeness | (noun) experiencing joy and pleasure | Synonyms: gladfulness, gladness |
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| glamor | (noun) alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) | Synonyms: glamour |
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| glamorisation | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorization, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| glamorization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| glamour | (noun) alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) | Synonyms: glamor |
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| glamourisation | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamorization, glamourization |
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| glamourization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamorization, glamourisation |
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| glamping | (noun) Camping glamorously, i.e., with expensive equipment | - |
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| glance | (noun) a quick look | Synonyms: coup d'oeil, glimpse |
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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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| glanders | (noun) a destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans | - |
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| glans | (noun) a small rounded structure; especially that at the end of the penis or clitoris | - |
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| glare | (noun) an angry stare | Synonyms: glower |
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| (noun) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted | Synonyms: blaze, brilliance |
| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: limelight, public eye, spotlight |
| glareole | (noun) Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers | Synonyms: pratincole |
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| glasnost | (noun) a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems | - |
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| glass | (noun) a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking | Synonyms: drinking glass |
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| (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
| (noun) a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror | Synonyms: looking glass |
| (noun) a small refracting telescope | Synonyms: field glass, spyglass |
| (noun) glassware collectively | - |
| (noun) the quantity a glass will hold | Synonyms: glassful |
| (noun) a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure | - |
| glassblower | (noun) someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass | - |
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| glasses | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: eyeglasses, specs, spectacles |
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| glassful | (noun) the quantity a glass will hold | Synonyms: glass |
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| glasshouse | (noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: greenhouse |
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| glassmaker | (noun) someone who makes glass | - |
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| glassware | (noun) an article of tableware made of glass | Synonyms: glasswork |
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| glasswork | (noun) an article of tableware made of glass | Synonyms: glassware |
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| glassworker | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glazer, glazier |
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| glassworks | (noun) a workplace where glass is made | - |
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| glasswort | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: Salicornia europaea, samphire |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
| glaucoma | (noun) an eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness) | - |
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| glauconite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated silicate of potassium or iron or magnesium or aluminum; found in greensand | - |
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| glaze | (noun) a coating for ceramics, metal, etc. | - |
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| (noun) a glossy finish on a fabric | - |
| (noun) any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods | - |
| glazer | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glassworker, glazier |
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| glazier | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glassworker, glazer |
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| gleam | (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleaming, glow, lambency |
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| (noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleaming, glimmer |
| gleaming | (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, glow, lambency |
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| (noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleam, glimmer |
| gleaner | (noun) someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters | - |
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| (noun) someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully | - |
| gleba | (noun) fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn | - |
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| glebe | (noun) plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office | - |
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| glee | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: gleefulness, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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| (noun) malicious satisfaction | Synonyms: gloat, gloating |
| gleefulness | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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| gleet | (noun) a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea | - |
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| glen | (noun) a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains) | - |
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| glia | (noun) sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system; glial and neural cells together compose the tissue of the central nervous system | Synonyms: neuroglia |
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| glibness | (noun) a kind of fluent easy superficiality | Synonyms: slickness |
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| glide | (noun) the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it | Synonyms: coast, slide |
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| (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: gliding, sailing, sailplaning, soaring |
| (noun) a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant | Synonyms: semivowel |
| glider | (noun) aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces | Synonyms: sailplane |
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| gliding | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, sailing, sailplaning, soaring |
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| glimmer | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmering, inkling, intimation |
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| (noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming |
| glimmering | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, inkling, intimation |
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| glimpse | (noun) a quick look | Synonyms: coup d'oeil, glance |
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| (noun) a brief or incomplete view | - |
| (noun) a vague indication | - |
| glint | (noun) a spatially localized brightness | - |
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| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: flicker, spark |
| glioblastoma | (noun) a fast-growing malignant brain tumor composed of spongioblasts; nearly always fatal | Synonyms: spongioblastoma |
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| glioma | (noun) a tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia | - |
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| glipizide | (noun) an oral antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucotrol) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas | Synonyms: Glucotrol |
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| gliricidia | (noun) any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonous | - |
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| glissade | (noun) (ballet) a gliding or sliding step in ballet | - |
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| glissando | (noun) a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale | - |
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| glisten | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glister, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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| glister | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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| glitch | (noun) a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine | Synonyms: bug |
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| glitter | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, scintillation, sparkle |
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| (noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: coruscation, sparkle |
| glitz | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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| gloam | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| gloaming | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, nightfall, twilight |
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| gloat | (noun) malicious satisfaction | Synonyms: glee, gloating |
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| gloating | (noun) malicious satisfaction | Synonyms: glee, gloat |
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| glob | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, clump, lump |
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| globalisation | (noun) growth to a global or worldwide scale | Synonyms: globalization |
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| globalization | (noun) growth to a global or worldwide scale | Synonyms: globalisation |
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| globe | (noun) a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented | - |
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| (noun) the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on | Synonyms: Earth, earth, world |
| (noun) an object with a spherical shape | Synonyms: ball, orb |
| globefish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: blowfish, puffer, pufferfish |
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| globeflower | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Trollius having globose yellow flowers | Synonyms: globe flower |
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| globetrotter | (noun) someone who travels widely and often | Synonyms: world traveler |
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| globigerina | (noun) marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes | - |
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| globin | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: haematohiston, hematohiston |
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| globosity | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globularness, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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| globularness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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| globule | (noun) a small globe or ball | - |
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| globulin | (noun) a family of proteins found in blood and milk and muscle and in plant seed | - |
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| glochid | (noun) a barbed spine or bristle (often tufted on cacti) | Synonyms: glochidium |
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| glochidium | (noun) a barbed spine or bristle (often tufted on cacti) | Synonyms: glochid |
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| glockenspiel | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | Synonyms: orchestral bells |
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| glogg | (noun) Scandinavian punch made of claret and aquavit with spices and raisins and orange peel and sugar | - |
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| glomerule | (noun) a compacted or sessile cyme | - |
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| glomerulonephritis | (noun) nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema | - |
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| glomerulus | (noun) a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; it filters the blood during urine formation | - |
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| gloom | (noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloominess, somberness, sombreness |
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| (noun) a state of partial or total darkness | Synonyms: somberness, sombreness |
| (noun) an atmosphere of depression and melancholy | Synonyms: gloominess, glumness |
| gloominess | (noun) the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | Synonyms: lugubriousness, sadness |
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| (noun) The property of having a frowning or scowling appearance. | - |
| (noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloom, somberness, sombreness |
| (noun) an atmosphere of depression and melancholy | Synonyms: gloom, glumness |
| glop | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: mush, slop, treacle |
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| (noun) any gummy shapeless matter; usually unpleasant | - |
| glorification | (noun) the act of glorifying (as in worship) | - |
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| (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: idealisation, idealization |
| (noun) a state of high honor | Synonyms: glory |
| gloriole | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, aureole, glory, halo, nimbus |
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