| agile | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: nimble, quick, spry |
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| (adjective) mentally quick | Synonyms: nimble |
| agilely | (adverb) in a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease | Synonyms: nimbly |
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| agility | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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| argil | (noun) a white clay (especially a white clay used by potters) | - |
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| argillaceous | (adjective) resembling or containing clay | Synonyms: clayey |
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| argillite | (noun) a sedimentary rock differing from shale in being bound by silica and from slate in having no slate cleavages | - |
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| aspergill | (noun) a short-handled device with a globe containing a sponge; used for sprinkling holy water | Synonyms: aspersorium |
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| aspergillosis | (noun) an opportunistic infection by a fungus of the genus Aspergillus; characterized by inflammation and lesions of the ear and other organs | - |
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| (noun) disease especially in agricultural workers caused by inhalation of Aspergillus spores causing lumps in skin and ears and respiratory organs | - |
| (noun) severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeys | Synonyms: brooder pneumonia |
| begild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: engild, gild |
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| bluegill | (noun) important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Lepomis macrochirus |
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| cagily | (adverb) in a cagey manner | Synonyms: circumspectly |
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| dingily | (adverb) in a dingy manner | Synonyms: grubbily, grungily |
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| engild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: begild, gild |
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| fothergilla | (noun) any of several deciduous low-growing shrubs of the genus Fothergilla having showy brushlike spikes of white flowers in spring and fiery red and orange autumn color; grows from Alabama to the Allegheny Mountains | Synonyms: witch alder |
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| fragile | (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: delicate, frail |
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| (adjective) vulnerably delicate | - |
| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin |
| fragility | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: breakability, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| (noun) lack of physical strength | Synonyms: delicacy |
| 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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| (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: begild, engild |
| gilded | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilt, gold, golden |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: glossy, meretricious, specious |
| (adjective) made from or covered with gold | Synonyms: gold, golden |
| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
| 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 | - |
| gilled | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: branchiate |
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| 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 | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilded, gold, golden |
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| (noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold | Synonyms: gilding |
| grungily | (adverb) in a dingy manner | Synonyms: dingily, grubbily |
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| invigilate | (verb) watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) | Synonyms: proctor |
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| invigilation | (noun) keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating | - |
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| invigilator | (noun) someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating | - |
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| magilp | (noun) a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine | Synonyms: megilp |
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| mangily | (adverb) in a mangy manner | - |
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| megillah | (noun) (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account | - |
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| megilp | (noun) a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine | Synonyms: magilp |
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| nargileh | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| pugilism | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: boxing, fisticuffs |
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| pugilist | (noun) someone who fights with his fists for sport | Synonyms: boxer |
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| pugilistic | (adjective) of or relating to pugilism or pugilists | - |
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| ridgil | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgel, ridgeling, ridgling |
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| shaggily | (adverb) in a shaggy manner | - |
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| slangily | (adverb) with slang; in a slangy manner | - |
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| spongillafly | (noun) hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges | Synonyms: spongefly |
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| stagily | (adverb) in a stagy and theatrical manner | Synonyms: theatrically |
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| stingily | (adverb) in a stingy manner | Synonyms: cheaply, chintzily |
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| stodgily | (adverb) in a stuffy manner | Synonyms: stuffily |
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| unvigilant | (adjective) not alert to what is potentially dangerous | Synonyms: unalert, unwatchful |
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| vagile | (adjective) having freedom to move about | - |
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| vigil | (noun) a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe | Synonyms: watch |
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| (noun) the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) | Synonyms: watch |
| (noun) a period of sleeplessness | - |
| vigilance | (noun) vigilant attentiveness | Synonyms: watchfulness, weather eye |
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| (noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: alertness, wakefulness, watchfulness |
| vigilant | (adjective) carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger | Synonyms: argus-eyed, open-eyed, wakeful, watchful |
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| vigilante | (noun) member of a vigilance committee | Synonyms: vigilance man |
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| vigilantism | (noun) the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws | - |
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| vigilantly | (adverb) in a watchful manner | Synonyms: watchfully |
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