| agouti | (noun) agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food | Synonyms: Dasyprocta aguti |
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| analogous | (adjective) corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin | - |
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| (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: correspondent |
| analogously | (adverb) in an analogous manner | - |
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| anthophagous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophilous |
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| anthropophagous | (adjective) of or relating to eaters of human flesh | - |
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| autologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of the selfsame individual | - |
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| azygous | (adjective) occurring singly; not one of a pair | Synonyms: azygos |
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| bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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| cagoule | (noun) lightweight parka; waterproof | - |
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| calcifugous | (adjective) growing or living in acid soil | - |
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| callipygous | (adjective) pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks | Synonyms: callipygian |
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| carpophagous | (adjective) feeding on fruit | Synonyms: fruit-eating |
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| clangour | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clank, clash, crash |
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| (verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangor |
| congou | (noun) black tea grown in China | Synonyms: congo, congou tea, English breakfast tea |
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| dizygous | (adjective) derived from two separately fertilized eggs | Synonyms: dizygotic |
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| dugout | (noun) a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground | Synonyms: bunker |
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| (noun) either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game | - |
| (noun) a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log | Synonyms: dugout canoe, pirogue |
| (noun) a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside. | Synonyms: dug-out, pit-house, pithouse |
| fungous | (adjective) of or relating to fungi | Synonyms: fungal |
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| gouache | (noun) a watercolor executed with opaque watercolors mixed with gum | - |
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| (noun) an opaque watercolor prepared with gum | - |
| gouge | (noun) the act of gouging | - |
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| (noun) and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves | - |
| (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, ding, nick |
| (verb) force with the thumb | Synonyms: force out |
| (verb) make a groove in | Synonyms: rout |
| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, rack, squeeze, wring |
| gouger | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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| (noun) an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye | - |
| goujon | (noun) large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw | Synonyms: flathead catfish, mudcat, Pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish |
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| goulash | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: gulyas, Hungarian goulash |
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| gourd | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: calabash |
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| (noun) any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds | Synonyms: gourd vine |
| (noun) any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds | - |
| gourde | (noun) the basic unit of money in Haiti | - |
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| gourmand | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman |
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| gourmandism | (noun) the disposition and habits of a gourmand | - |
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| gourmandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gourmandizer | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, trencherman |
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| gourmet | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, foodie, gastronome |
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| gout | (noun) a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints | Synonyms: gouty arthritis, urarthritis |
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| gouty | (adjective) suffering from gout | - |
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| hangout | (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: haunt, repair, resort, stamping ground |
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| heterologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of a different but related species | - |
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| (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterologic, heterological |
| heterozygous | (adjective) having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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| homologous | (adjective) corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species | - |
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| (adjective) having the same evolutionary origin but not necessarily the same function | - |
| homozygous | (adjective) having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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| humongous | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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| langouste | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: crayfish, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
| langoustine | (noun) caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster | Synonyms: Norwegian lobster, scampo |
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| lucifugous | (adjective) light-avoiding | Synonyms: lucifugal |
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| myrmecophagous | (adjective) feeding on ants | - |
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| nidifugous | (adjective) (of birds) leaving the nest shortly after hatching | - |
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| pemphigous | (adjective) of or relating to or manifesting pemphigus | - |
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| phytophagous | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagic, phytophilous, plant-eating |
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| ragout | (noun) well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables | - |
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| rigour | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) the quality of being valid and rigorous | Synonyms: cogency, rigor, validity |
| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| rigourousness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| rigout | (noun) a person's costume (especially if bizarre) | - |
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| saprophagous | (adjective) (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter | Synonyms: saprozoic |
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| vigour | (noun) active strength of body or mind | Synonyms: dynamism, heartiness, vigor |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, muscularity, vigor, vim |
| (noun) forceful exertion | Synonyms: energy, vigor, zip |
| zoophagous | (adjective) (of animals) carnivorous | Synonyms: flesh-eating, meat-eating |
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