| greenhorn | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, rookie |
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| greenhouse | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect | - |
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| (noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: glasshouse |
| greening | (noun) the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored | Synonyms: rejuvenation |
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| greenish | (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, green, light-green |
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| greenishness | (noun) the property of being somewhat green | - |
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| greenlight | (verb) to allow a project (especially a TV show) to go ahead | - |
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| greenling | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific | - |
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| greenly | (adverb) with green color | - |
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| greenmail | (noun) (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business | - |
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| greenmarket | (noun) an open-air marketplace for farm products | Synonyms: farmer's market, green market |
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| greenness | (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: green, viridity |
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| (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: verdancy, verdure |
| (noun) the state of not being ripe | - |
| greenockite | (noun) ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form | Synonyms: cadmium sulphide |
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| greenroom | (noun) a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors | - |
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| greens | (noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: green, leafy vegetable |
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| greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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| greenshank | (noun) large European sandpiper with greenish legs | Synonyms: Tringa nebularia |
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| greensick | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis | Synonyms: chlorotic |
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| greensickness | (noun) iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin | Synonyms: chlorosis |
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| greenside | (adjective) adjacent to a putting green | - |
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| greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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| greensward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: sod, sward, turf |
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| greenway | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenbelt |
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| greenweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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| greenwing | (noun) common teal of Eurasia and North America | Synonyms: Anas crecca, green-winged teal |
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| greenwood | (noun) woodlands in full leaf | - |
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| greet | (verb) react to in a certain way | - |
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| (verb) express greetings upon meeting someone | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) send greetings to | - |
| (verb) be perceived by | - |
| greeter | (noun) a person who greets | Synonyms: saluter, welcomer |
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| greeting | (noun) (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting) | Synonyms: salutation |
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| gregarine | (noun) vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates | - |
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| gregarious | (adjective) (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) growing in groups that are close together | - |
| (adjective) instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others | - |
| gregariously | (adverb) in a gregarious manner | Synonyms: sociably |
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| gregariousness | (noun) the quality of being gregarious--having a dislike of being alone | - |
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| greisen | (noun) a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica | - |
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| gremlin | (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, hob, imp, pixie, pixy |
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| grenade | (noun) a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile | - |
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| grenadier | (noun) deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | Synonyms: rattail, rattail fish |
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| (noun) an infantryman equipped with grenades | Synonyms: grenade thrower |
| grenadine | (noun) thin syrup made from pomegranate juice; used in mixed drinks | - |
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| grevillea | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea | - |
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| grey | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, greyish |
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| (adjective) intermediate in character or position | Synonyms: gray |
| (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
| (adjective) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | Synonyms: gray |
| (noun) horse of a light gray or whitish color | Synonyms: gray |
| (noun) clothing that is a grey color | Synonyms: gray |
| (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayness, greyness |
| (noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | Synonyms: gray |
| (verb) turn grey | Synonyms: gray |
| (verb) make grey | Synonyms: gray |
| greyback | (noun) a dowitcher with a grey back | Synonyms: grayback, Limnodromus griseus |
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| (noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, grayback, knot |
| (noun) `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms | Synonyms: Johnny, Johnny Reb, Reb, Rebel |
| greybeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, long-beard, longbeard |
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| (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: graybeard, Methuselah, old man |
| greyed | (adjective) deprived of color | Synonyms: dulled |
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| greyhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grayhen, grey hen, heath hen |
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| greyhound | (noun) a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog | - |
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| greyish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, grey |
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| greylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag, graylag goose, greylag goose |
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| greyly | (adverb) having a grey appearance | Synonyms: grayly |
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| greyness | (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayness, grey |
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| ingredient | (noun) a component of a mixture or compound | - |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, element, factor |
| (noun) food that is a component of a mixture in cooking | Synonyms: fixings |
| ingress | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entrance, entry, incoming |
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| (noun) (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse | Synonyms: immersion |
| ingressive | (noun) a speech sound by which the airstream flows inward through the mouth or nose. | - |
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| maigre | (noun) large European marine food fish | Synonyms: maiger, Sciaena aquila |
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| meagre | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, scrimpy, stingy |
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| meagrely | (adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner | Synonyms: meagerly, slenderly, sparingly |
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| meagreness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| millidegree | (noun) a unit of temperature equal to one-thousandth of a degree | - |
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| mongrel | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mutt |
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| (noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: bastard |
| mongrelise | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelize |
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| mongrelize | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelise |
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| nonaggression | (noun) a policy of not initiating hostilities | - |
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| nonaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: unaggressive |
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| nongregarious | (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nonsocial, solitary |
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| nonprogressive | (adjective) old-fashioned and out of date | Synonyms: fusty, standpat, unprogressive |
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| nonsegregated | (adjective) rid of segregation; having had segregation ended | Synonyms: desegrated, unsegregated |
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| ogre | (noun) (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings | - |
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| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, devil, fiend, monster |
| ogress | (noun) (folklore) a female ogre | - |
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| overgreedy | (adjective) excessively gluttonous | Synonyms: too-greedy |
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| pedigree | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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| (noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: bloodline |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, stemma, stock |
| (noun) line of descent of a purebred animal | - |
| pedigreed | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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| progress | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progression |
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| (noun) gradual improvement or growth or development | Synonyms: advancement |
| (noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: advance, progression |
| (verb) develop in a positive way | Synonyms: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, shape up |
| (verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build, build up, work up |
| (verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | Synonyms: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on |
| progression | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress |
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| (noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: advance, progress |
| (noun) a series with a definite pattern of advance | Synonyms: patterned advance |
| progressive | (adjective) favoring or promoting progress | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases | - |
| (adjective) advancing in severity | - |
| (adjective) gradually advancing in extent | - |
| (adjective) favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | Synonyms: reform-minded, reformist |
| (adjective) (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position | - |
| (noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberal, liberalist |
| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense |
| progressively | (adverb) advancing in amount or intensity | Synonyms: increasingly, more and more |
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| progressiveness | (noun) advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods | Synonyms: progressivity |
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| progressivism | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society | - |
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| progressivity | (noun) advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods | Synonyms: progressiveness |
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| regress | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regression, retrogression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence | Synonyms: reasoning backward |
| (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, relapse, retrogress |
| (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: retrograde, retrogress |
| (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: retrovert, return, revert, turn back |
| (verb) go back to a statistical means | - |
| regression | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, retrogression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x) | Synonyms: regression toward the mean, simple regression, statistical regression |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state | - |
| (noun) an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely | Synonyms: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation |
| regressive | (adjective) opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases | - |
| regret | (noun) sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment | Synonyms: rue, ruefulness, sorrow |
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| (verb) decline formally or politely | - |
| (verb) express with regret | - |
| (verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: repent, rue |
| (verb) feel sad about the loss or absence of | - |
| regretful | (adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | Synonyms: bad, sorry |
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| regretfully | (adverb) with regret (used in polite formulas) | - |
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| regrets | (noun) a polite refusal of an invitation | Synonyms: declination |
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| regrettable | (adjective) deserving regret | Synonyms: too bad |
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| regrettably | (adverb) by bad luck | Synonyms: alas, unfortunately, unluckily |
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| retrogress | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, relapse |
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| (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: regress, retrograde |
| retrogression | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form | Synonyms: degeneration |
| retrogressive | (adjective) going from better to worse | Synonyms: retrograde |
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| segregate | (noun) someone who is or has been segregated | - |
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| (verb) separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others | - |
| (verb) divide from the main body or mass and collect | - |
| (verb) separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation | - |
| segregated | (adjective) separated or isolated from others or a main group | Synonyms: unintegrated |
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| segregation | (noun) the act of segregating or sequestering | Synonyms: sequestration |
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| (noun) a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups | Synonyms: separatism |
| (noun) (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes | - |
| segregationism | (noun) a political orientation favoring political or racial segregation | - |
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| segregationist | (noun) someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart | Synonyms: segregator |
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| segregator | (noun) someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart | Synonyms: segregationist |
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| tendergreen | (noun) Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage | Synonyms: Brassica perviridis, Brassica rapa perviridis, spinach mustard |
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| tigress | (noun) a female tiger | - |
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| transgress | (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: overstep, trespass |
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| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, violate |
| (verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: sin, trespass |
| (verb) spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline | - |
| transgression | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: evildoing |
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| (noun) the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit | - |
| (noun) the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata | - |
| transgressor | (noun) someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command | - |
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| unaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: nonaggressive |
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