| grateful | (adjective) feeling or showing gratitude | Synonyms: thankful |
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| (adjective) affording comfort or pleasure | - |
| gratefully | (adverb) in a thankful manner; with thanks | Synonyms: thankfully |
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| (adverb) with appreciation; in a grateful manner | Synonyms: appreciatively |
| gratefulness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: appreciativeness, thankfulness |
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| grater | (noun) utensil with sharp perforations for shredding foods (as vegetables or cheese) | - |
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| graticule | (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: reticle, reticule |
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| gratification | (noun) the act or an instance of satisfying | - |
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| (noun) state of being gratified or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfaction |
| gratified | (adjective) having received what was desired | - |
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| gratify | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: indulge, pander |
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| (verb) make happy or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfy |
| gratifying | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: enjoyable, pleasurable |
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| (adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling | Synonyms: sweet |
| gratifyingly | (adverb) in a gratifying manner | Synonyms: satisfyingly |
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| grating | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| (noun) a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air | Synonyms: grate |
| (noun) a frame of iron bars to hold a fire | Synonyms: grate |
| (noun) optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum | Synonyms: diffraction grating |
| gratingly | (adverb) in a harsh and grating manner | Synonyms: harshly, raspingly |
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| gratis | (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratuitous |
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| (adverb) without charge | Synonyms: for free, free of charge |
| gratitude | (noun) a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation | - |
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| gratuitous | (adjective) without cause | - |
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| (adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted | Synonyms: needless, uncalled-for |
| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratis |
| gratuitously | (adverb) in an uncalled-for manner | - |
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| gratuity | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, pourboire, tip |
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| (noun) an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation | - |
| gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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| grave | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grievous, heavy, weighty |
| (adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: sedate, sober, solemn |
| (noun) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | Synonyms: tomb |
| (noun) a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: grave accent |
| (noun) death of a person | - |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, inscribe, scratch |
| (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: sculpt, sculpture |
| gravedigger | (noun) a person who earns a living by digging graves | - |
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| gravel | (noun) rock fragments and pebbles | Synonyms: crushed rock |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) cover with gravel | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| gravelly | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: pebbly, shingly |
| gravelweed | (noun) perennial herb with yellow flowers; southern and south central United States | Synonyms: Verbesina helianthoides |
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| gravely | (adverb) in a grave and sober manner | Synonyms: soberly, staidly |
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| (adverb) to a severe or serious degree | Synonyms: badly, seriously, severely |
| graven | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, etched, incised, inscribed |
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| (adjective) cut into a desired shape | Synonyms: sculpted, sculptured |
| graveness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: gravity, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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| graver | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graving tool, pointel, pointrel |
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| graverobber | (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, ghoul |
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| (noun) someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts | - |
| gravestone | (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: headstone, tombstone |
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| graveyard | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, memorial park, necropolis |
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| gravid | (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, great, heavy, large, with child |
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| gravida | (noun) a pregnant woman | - |
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| (noun) the number of the pregnancy that a woman is in | - |
| gravidation | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidity, gravidness |
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| gravidity | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidation, gravidness |
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| gravidness | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidation, gravidity |
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| gravimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid | Synonyms: hydrometer |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth | Synonyms: gravity meter |
| gravimetric | (adjective) of or relating to hydrometry | Synonyms: hydrometric |
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| gravimetry | (noun) the measurement of specific gravity | Synonyms: hydrometry |
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| gravitas | (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: dignity, lordliness |
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| gravitate | (verb) move due to the pull of gravitation | - |
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| (verb) be attracted to | - |
| (verb) move toward | - |
| gravitation | (noun) a figurative movement toward some attraction | - |
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| (noun) movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction | - |
| (noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitational attraction, gravitational force, gravity |
| gravitational | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitative |
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| gravitationally | (adverb) with respect to gravitation | - |
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| gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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| graviton | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles | - |
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| gravity | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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| (noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: solemnity |
| (noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force |
| gravure | (noun) the act of intaglio printing | - |
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| (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: heliogravure, photogravure |
| (noun) a printing plate used in the process of gravure | - |
| (noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: intaglio, intaglio printing |
| gravy | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| (noun) the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added | Synonyms: pan gravy |
| (noun) a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats | - |
| gray | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: grayish, grey, greyish |
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| (adjective) intermediate in character or position | Synonyms: grey |
| (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
| (adjective) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) horse of a light gray or whitish color | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) clothing that is a grey color | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: grayness, grey, greyness |
| (noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad | Synonyms: Gy |
| (verb) turn grey | Synonyms: grey |
| (verb) make grey | Synonyms: grey |
| grayback | (noun) a dowitcher with a grey back | Synonyms: greyback, Limnodromus griseus |
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| (noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, greyback, knot |
| graybeard | (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: greybeard, Methuselah, old man |
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| grayhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grey hen, greyhen, heath hen |
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| grayish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyish |
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| graylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag goose, greylag, greylag goose |
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| grayly | (adverb) having a grey appearance | Synonyms: greyly |
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| grayness | (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyness |
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| graze | (noun) the act of grazing | Synonyms: grazing |
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| (noun) a superficial abrasion | - |
| (verb) eat lightly, try different dishes | Synonyms: browse |
| (verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: crease, rake |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, pasture, range |
| (verb) break the skin (of a body part) by scraping | - |
| (verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: crop, pasture |
| grazed | (adjective) scraped or touched lightly in passing | - |
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| grazier | (noun) a rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market | - |
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| grazing | (noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: shaving, skimming |
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| (noun) the act of grazing | Synonyms: graze |
| grogram | (noun) a coarse fabric of silk mixed with wool or mohair and often stiffened with gum | - |
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| grosgrain | (noun) a silk or silklike fabric with crosswise ribs | - |
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| hagiographer | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographist, hagiologist |
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| hagiographist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiologist |
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| hagiography | (noun) a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint) | - |
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| hardinggrass | (noun) perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass | Synonyms: Harding grass, Phalaris aquatica, Phalaris tuberosa, toowomba canary grass |
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| hectogram | (noun) 100 grams | Synonyms: hg |
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| hectograph | (noun) duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy | Synonyms: heliotype |
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| (verb) copy on a duplicator | - |
| heliogram | (noun) a message transmitted by means of the sun's rays | - |
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| heliograph | (noun) an apparatus for sending telegraphic messages by using a mirror to turn the sun's rays off and on | - |
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| (verb) signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun's rays | - |
| heliogravure | (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: gravure, photogravure |
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| hellgrammiate | (noun) large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait | Synonyms: dobson |
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| heterograft | (noun) tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species | Synonyms: xenograft |
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| hexagram | (noun) a regular polygon formed by extending each of the sides of a regular hexagon to form two equilateral triangles | - |
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| histogram | (noun) a bar chart representing a frequency distribution; heights of the bars represent observed frequencies | - |
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| historiographer | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historian |
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| historiography | (noun) the writing of history | - |
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| (noun) a body of historical literature | - |
| hollygrape | (noun) ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries | Synonyms: holly-leaves barberry, Mahonia aquifolium, mountain grape, Oregon grape, Oregon holly grape |
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| hologram | (noun) the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography | Synonyms: holograph |
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| holograph | (noun) the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography | Synonyms: hologram |
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| (noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: manuscript |
| holographic | (adjective) written entirely in one's own hand | Synonyms: holographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to holography or holograms | - |
| (adjective) written wholly in the handwriting of the signer | - |
| holographical | (adjective) written entirely in one's own hand | Synonyms: holographic |
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| holography | (noun) the branch of optics that deals with the use of coherent light from a laser in order to make a hologram that can then be used to create a three-dimensional image | - |
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| homograft | (noun) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft | Synonyms: allograft |
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| homograph | (noun) two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair) | - |
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| hydrographic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of hydrography | Synonyms: hydrographical |
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| hydrographical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of hydrography | Synonyms: hydrographic |
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| hydrography | (noun) the science of the measurement and description and mapping of the surface waters of the earth with special reference to navigation | - |
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| hymnography | (noun) (music) the craft of hymn composition. | - |
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| hypsography | (noun) measurement of the elevation of land above sea level | Synonyms: hypsometry |
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| (noun) the scientific study of the earth's configuration above sea level (emphasizing the measurement of land altitudes relative to sea level) | - |
| hysterosalpingogram | (noun) X ray of the uterus and Fallopian tubes; usually done in diagnosing infertility (to see if there any blockages) | - |
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| iconography | (noun) the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject | - |
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| ideogram | (noun) a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it | Synonyms: ideograph |
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| ideograph | (noun) a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it | Synonyms: ideogram |
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| ideographic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of ideograms | - |
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| ideographically | (adverb) in an idiographic manner | - |
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| ideography | (noun) the use of ideograms in writing | - |
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| idiographic | (adjective) relating to or involving the study of individuals | - |
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| immigrant | (noun) a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there | - |
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| immigrate | (verb) come into a new country and change residency | - |
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| (verb) migrate to a new environment | - |
| (verb) introduce or send as immigrants | - |