| ergotic | (adjective) relating to or produced by ergot | - |
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| ergotine | (noun) a powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance, used to produce contraction of the uterus. | - |
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| ergotism | (noun) poisoning by ingestion of ergot-infected grain products; characterized by thirst and diarrhea and nausea and cramping and vomiting and abnormal cardiac rhythms; in severe cases it can cause seizures and gangrene of the limbs | - |
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| ergotropic | (adjective) of or relating to ergotropism | - |
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| ergotropism | (noun) an affinity for work | - |
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| eringo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eryngo |
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| eriogonum | (noun) any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers | - |
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| eryngo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eringo |
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| escargot | (noun) edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic | Synonyms: snail |
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| esophagoscope | (noun) an optical instrument for examining the inside of the esophagus | Synonyms: oesophagoscope |
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| estragon | (noun) fresh leaves (or leaves preserved in vinegar) used as seasoning | Synonyms: tarragon |
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| (noun) aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia | Synonyms: Artemisia dracunculus, tarragon |
| exergonic | (adjective) (biochemistry) of a process accompanied by the release of energy | - |
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| faggot | (noun) a bundle of sticks and branches bound together | Synonyms: fagot |
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| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
| (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot | Synonyms: faggot up, fagot |
| (verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them | Synonyms: fagot |
| (verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch | Synonyms: fagot |
| faggoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: fagoting |
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| fagot | (noun) a bundle of sticks and branches bound together | Synonyms: faggot |
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| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
| (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot | Synonyms: faggot, faggot up |
| (verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them | Synonyms: faggot |
| (verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch | Synonyms: faggot |
| fagoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: faggoting |
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| fandango | (noun) a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets | - |
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| farrago | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| filago | (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, cudweed |
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| flagon | (noun) a large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout; used to hold alcoholic beverages (usually wine) | - |
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| flamingo | (noun) large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes | - |
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| forego | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, foreswear, forgo, relinquish, waive |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forgo, precede, predate |
| foregoing | (adjective) especially of writing or speech; going before | - |
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| foregone | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, gone |
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| forgo | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, relinquish, waive |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, precede, predate |
| forgoing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forswearing, renunciation |
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| forgotten | (adjective) not noticed inadvertently | Synonyms: disregarded |
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| frigorific | (adjective) causing cold; cooling or chilling | - |
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| fungoid | (adjective) resembling fungi | Synonyms: funguslike |
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| fungous | (adjective) of or relating to fungi | Synonyms: fungal |
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| galactagogue | (noun) agent that induces milk secretion | - |
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| galago | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, bushbaby |
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| gargoyle | (noun) an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
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| (noun) a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
| gargoylism | (noun) hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation | Synonyms: dysostosis multiplex, Hurler's disease, Hurler's syndrome, lipochondrodystrophy |
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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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| 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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| 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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| go | (adjective) functioning correctly and ready for action | - |
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| (noun) a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters | Synonyms: go game |
| (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, offer, pass, whirl |
| (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, cristal, disco biscuit, ecstasy, hug drug, X, XTC |
| (noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: spell, tour, turn |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) follow a certain course | Synonyms: proceed |
| (verb) progress by being changed | Synonyms: move, run |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go bad |
| (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: become, get |
| (verb) be abolished or discarded | - |
| (verb) give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number | Synonyms: plump |
| (verb) have a turn; make one's move in a game | Synonyms: move |
| (verb) to be spent or finished | Synonyms: run low, run short |
| (verb) be spent | - |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, operate, run, work |
| (verb) go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way | Synonyms: rifle |
| (verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically | Synonyms: locomote, move, travel |
| (verb) move away from a place into another direction | Synonyms: depart, go away |
| (verb) begin or set in motion | Synonyms: get going, start |
| (verb) make a certain noise or sound | Synonyms: sound |
| (verb) follow a procedure or take a course | Synonyms: move, proceed |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, lead, pass, run |
| (verb) have a particular form | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action | - |
| (verb) be in the right place or situation | Synonyms: belong |
| (verb) be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired | Synonyms: fit |
| (verb) be awarded; be allotted | - |
| (verb) be or continue to be in a certain condition | - |
| (verb) lead, extend, or afford access | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be ranked or compare | - |
| (verb) blend or harmonize | Synonyms: blend, blend in |
| (verb) be sounded, played, or expressed | - |
| (verb) be contained in | - |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive |
| goad | (noun) a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion | Synonyms: prod |
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| (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goading, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
| (verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: needle |
| (verb) urge with or as if with a goad | - |
| (verb) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick | Synonyms: prick |
| (verb) give heart or courage to | Synonyms: spur |
| goaded | (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: driven |
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| goading | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
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| goal | (noun) a successful attempt at scoring | - |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points | - |
| (noun) the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it | Synonyms: end |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: destination, finish |
| goalie | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
| goalkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
| goalless | (adjective) having no points scores | Synonyms: hitless, pointless, scoreless |
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| goalmouth | (noun) (sports) the area immediately in front of the goal | - |
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| goalpost | (noun) one of a pair of posts (usually joined by a crossbar) that are set up as a goal at each end of a playing field | - |
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| goaltender | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper, netminder |
| goat | (noun) any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns | Synonyms: caprine animal |
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| (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, laughingstock, stooge |
| goatee | (noun) a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard | - |
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| goateed | (adjective) having a small pointed chin beard | - |
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| goatfish | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: Mullus surmuletus, red mullet, surmullet |
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| goatherd | (noun) a person who tends a flock of goats | Synonyms: goat herder |
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| goatsbeard | (noun) weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis |
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| goatsfoot | (noun) short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers | Synonyms: goat's foot, Oxalis caprina |
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| goatskin | (noun) the hide of a goat | - |
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| goatsucker | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, nightjar |
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| gob | (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, hole, maw, trap, yap |
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| (noun) a lump of slimy stuff | - |
| (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, tar |
| gobbet | (noun) a lump or chunk of raw meat | - |
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| gobble | (noun) the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock | - |
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| (verb) make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys | - |
| (verb) eat hastily without proper chewing | Synonyms: bolt |
| gobbledygook | (noun) incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists | - |
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| gobbler | (noun) male turkey | Synonyms: tom, tom turkey, turkey cock |
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| (noun) a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls | - |
| goblet | (noun) a drinking glass with a base and stem | - |
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| (noun) a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup | Synonyms: chalice |
| goblin | (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: hob, hobgoblin |
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| gobs | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| gobsmacked | (adjective) utterly astounded | - |
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| goby | (noun) small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker | Synonyms: gudgeon |
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| god | (noun) a material effigy that is worshipped | Synonyms: graven image, idol |
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| (noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, divinity, immortal |
| (noun) a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people | - |
| godchild | (noun) an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism | - |
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| goddam | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| (adverb) expressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise | Synonyms: goddamn, goddamned |
| goddamn | (adjective) used as expletives | Synonyms: damn |
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| (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamned, infernal |
| (adverb) expressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise | Synonyms: goddam, goddamned |
| goddamned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, infernal |
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| (adverb) expressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise | Synonyms: goddam, goddamn |
| goddaughter | (noun) a female godchild | - |
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| goddess | (noun) a female deity | - |
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| godfather | (noun) any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| (noun) someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild | - |
| godforsaken | (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: waste, wild |
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| godless | (adjective) not revering god | Synonyms: irreverent |
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| godlessness | (noun) impiety by virtue of not being a godly person | Synonyms: ungodliness |
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| godlike | (adjective) being or having the nature of a god | Synonyms: divine |
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| (adjective) appropriate to or befitting a god | Synonyms: divine |
| godliness | (noun) piety by virtue of being a godly person | - |
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| godly | (adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: divine |
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| (adjective) showing great reverence for god | Synonyms: reverent, worshipful |
| godmother | (noun) any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| godown | (noun) (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse | - |
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| godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
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| godsend | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| godson | (noun) a male godchild | - |
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| godwit | (noun) large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill | - |
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| goer | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: departer, leaver |
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| goethite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: gothite |
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| gofer | (noun) an employee whose duties include running errands | - |
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| goffer | (noun) an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats | Synonyms: gauffer |
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| (noun) an iron used to press pleats and ridges | Synonyms: gauffer, gauffering iron, goffering iron |
| (noun) a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) | Synonyms: gopher |
| (verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: gauffer |
| 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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| going | (adjective) in full operation | - |
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| (noun) advancing toward a goal | Synonyms: sledding |
| (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: departure, going away, leaving |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, loss, passing, release |
| goiter | (noun) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet | Synonyms: goitre, struma, thyromegaly |
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| goitre | (noun) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet | Synonyms: goiter, struma, thyromegaly |
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| goitrogen | (noun) any substance (such as thiouracil) that induces the formation of a goiter | - |
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| gold | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilded, gilt, golden |
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| (adjective) made from or covered with gold | Synonyms: gilded, golden |
| (noun) a deep yellow color | Synonyms: amber |
| (noun) something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc. | - |
| (noun) coins made of gold | - |
| (noun) great wealth | - |
| (noun) a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia | Synonyms: atomic number 79, Au |
| goldbeater | (noun) an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf | Synonyms: gold-beater |
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