glossopharyngeal | (adjective) pertaining to the tongue and throat | - |
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glossoptosis | (noun) abnormal downward or back placement of the tongue | - |
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glossy | (adjective) superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense | Synonyms: showy |
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(adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny |
(adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: calendered |
(adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, meretricious, specious |
(noun) a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper | - |
(noun) a magazine printed on good quality paper | Synonyms: slick, slick magazine |
glottal | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the glottis | - |
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glottis | (noun) the vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated | - |
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glottochronological | (adjective) pertaining to the study of the evolution of languages from a common source | - |
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glottochronology | (noun) the determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language | - |
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glove | (noun) handwear: covers the hand and wrist | - |
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(noun) the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball | Synonyms: baseball glove, baseball mitt, mitt |
(noun) boxing equipment consisting of big and padded coverings for the fists of the fighters; worn for the sport of boxing | Synonyms: boxing glove |
gloved | (adjective) having the hands covered with gloves | - |
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gloveless | (adjective) devoid of gloves | - |
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glow | (noun) light from nonthermal sources | Synonyms: luminescence |
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(noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming, lambency |
(noun) a feeling of considerable warmth | - |
(noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised | Synonyms: incandescence |
(noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glowing, radiance |
(noun) a steady even light without flames | - |
(noun) an alert and refreshed state | Synonyms: freshness |
(verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine |
(verb) be exuberant or high-spirited | - |
(verb) emit a steady even light without flames | - |
(verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine |
(verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: burn |
glower | (noun) an angry stare | Synonyms: glare |
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(verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, lour, lower |
(verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glare |
glowering | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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gloweringly | (adverb) in a glowering manner | - |
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glowing | (adjective) highly enthusiastic | - |
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(noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glow, radiance |
glowingly | (adverb) in an enthusiastically glowing manner | - |
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glowworm | (noun) the luminous larva or wingless grub-like female of a firefly | - |
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glowy | (adjective) appearing to be glowing | - |
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gloxinia | (noun) any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers | - |
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glucagon | (noun) a hormone secreted by the pancreas; stimulates increases in blood sugar levels in the blood (thus opposing the action of insulin) | - |
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glucinium | (noun) a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element | Synonyms: atomic number 4, Be, beryllium |
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glucocorticoid | (noun) a steroid hormone that is produced by the adrenal cortex of animals; affects functioning of gonads and has anti-inflammatory activity | - |
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glucosamine | (noun) an amino derivative of glucose that is a component of many polysaccharides | - |
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glucose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy | - |
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glucoside | (noun) a glycoside derived from glucose | - |
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glucosuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of glucose in the urine | - |
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glue | (noun) cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive | Synonyms: gum, mucilage |
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(verb) be fixed as if by glue | - |
(verb) join or attach with or as if with glue | Synonyms: paste |
glued | (adjective) affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste | Synonyms: pasted |
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gluey | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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glueyness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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glug | (verb) make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle | - |
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gluiness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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glum | (adjective) moody and melancholic | - |
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(adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
glume | (noun) small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae | - |
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glumly | (adverb) in a sullen manner | Synonyms: dourly, sullenly |
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glumness | (noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: moroseness, sullenness |
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(noun) an atmosphere of depression and melancholy | Synonyms: gloom, gloominess |
gluon | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates strong interaction among quarks | - |
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glut | (noun) the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall | Synonyms: oversupply, surfeit |
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(verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
(verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: flood, oversupply |
glutamate | (noun) a salt or ester of glutamic acid | - |
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glutamine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins; important in protein metabolism | - |
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glute | (noun) any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh | Synonyms: gluteal muscle, gluteus, gluteus muscle |
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gluteal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the gluteus muscles | - |
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glutelin | (noun) a simple protein found in the seeds of cereals | - |
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gluten | (noun) a protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains; gives cohesiveness to dough | - |
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glutethimide | (noun) sedative (trade name Doriden) used to treat some sleep disorders | Synonyms: Doriden |
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gluteus | (noun) any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh | Synonyms: glute, gluteal muscle, gluteus muscle |
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glutinosity | (noun) the property of having a viscosity like jelly | Synonyms: gelatinousness, glutinousness |
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glutinous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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glutinousness | (noun) the property of having a viscosity like jelly | Synonyms: gelatinousness, glutinosity |
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glutted | (adjective) exceeding demand | Synonyms: overfull |
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glutton | (noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia | Synonyms: Gulo gulo, wolverine |
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(noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman |
gluttonise | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonize |
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gluttonize | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonise |
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gluttonous | (adjective) given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink | - |
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gluttonously | (adverb) in a gluttonous manner | - |
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gluttony | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gula, overeating |
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(noun) habitual eating to excess | - |
glyburide | (noun) an oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas | Synonyms: DiaBeta, Micronase |
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glyceraldehyde | (noun) a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars | Synonyms: glyceric aldehyde |
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glyceride | (noun) an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils | Synonyms: acylglycerol |
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glycerin | (noun) a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils | Synonyms: glycerine, glycerol |
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glycerine | (noun) a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils | Synonyms: glycerin, glycerol |
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glycerite | (noun) a medicine made by mixing a substance in glycerin | Synonyms: glycerole |
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glycerogel | (noun) a medicated skin preparation made from glycerin and glycerinated gelatin | Synonyms: glycerogelatin |
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glycerogelatin | (noun) a medicated skin preparation made from glycerin and glycerinated gelatin | Synonyms: glycerogel |
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glycerol | (noun) a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils | Synonyms: glycerin, glycerine |
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glycerole | (noun) a medicine made by mixing a substance in glycerin | Synonyms: glycerite |
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glycerolise | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolize |
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glycerolize | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolise |
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glyceryl | (noun) a trivalent radical derived from glycerol by removing the three hydroxyl radicals | - |
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glycine | (noun) the simplest amino acid found in proteins and the principal amino acid in sugar cane | - |
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glycogen | (noun) one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body | Synonyms: animal starch |
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glycogenesis | (noun) the conversion of glucose to glycogen when the glucose in the blood exceeds the demand | - |
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(noun) the formation in animals of glycogen from glucose | - |
glycogenic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving glycogen | - |
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glycol | (noun) any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule | Synonyms: dihydric alcohol, diol |
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(noun) a sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solvent | Synonyms: ethanediol, ethylene glycol |
glycolysis | (noun) a metabolic process that breaks down carbohydrates and sugars through a series of reactions to either pyruvic acid or lactic acid and releases energy for the body in the form of ATP | - |
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glycoprotein | (noun) a conjugated protein having a carbohydrate component | - |
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glycoside | (noun) a group of compounds derived from monosaccharides | - |
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glycosuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of sugar in the urine | - |
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glyoxaline | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: imidazole, iminazole |
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glyph | (noun) glyptic art in the form of a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief | - |
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glyptics | (noun) the art of engraving on precious stones | Synonyms: lithoglyptics |
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glyptography | (noun) carving or engraving (especially on stones) | - |
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(noun) carvings or engravings (especially on precious stones) | Synonyms: glyptic art |
goggle | (verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gape, gawk, gawp |
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goggles | (noun) (plural) tight-fitting spectacles worn to protect the eyes | - |
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google | (verb) search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine | - |
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googly | (noun) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way | Synonyms: bosie, bosie ball, wrong 'un |
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gratifyingly | (adverb) in a gratifying manner | Synonyms: satisfyingly |
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gratingly | (adverb) in a harsh and grating manner | Synonyms: harshly, raspingly |
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gropingly | (adverb) in an uncertain groping manner | - |
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grudgingly | (adverb) in a grudging manner | - |
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guggle | (verb) drink from a flask with a gurgling sound | Synonyms: gurgle |
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(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, gurgle, ripple |
(verb) make a sound like a liquid that is being poured from a bottle | - |
gurgle | (noun) the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck | - |
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(verb) utter with a gurgling sound | - |
(verb) drink from a flask with a gurgling sound | Synonyms: guggle |
(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, guggle, ripple |
(verb) make sounds similar to gurgling water | - |
gushingly | (adverb) in a gushing manner | - |
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haemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: hemagglutinate |
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haemagglutination | (noun) agglutination of red blood cells | Synonyms: hemagglutination |
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haemoglobin | (noun) a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues | Synonyms: Hb, hemoglobin |
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haemoglobinemia | (noun) presence of excessive hemoglobin in the blood plasma | Synonyms: hemoglobinemia |
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haemoglobinopathy | (noun) a blood disease characterized by the presence of abnormal hemoglobins in the blood | Synonyms: hemoglobinopathy |
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haemoglobinuria | (noun) presence of hemoglobin in the urine | Synonyms: hemoglobinuria |
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haggle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggling, wrangle, wrangling |
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(verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, higgle, huckster |