| gunfight | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunplay, shootout |
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| gunfire | (noun) the act of shooting a gun | Synonyms: gunshot |
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| gunflint | (noun) the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon | - |
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| gunite | (noun) a mixture of cement and sand and water that is sprayed on a surface under pneumatic pressure | - |
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| gunk | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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| gunlock | (noun) the action that ignites the charge in a firearm | Synonyms: firing mechanism |
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| gunman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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| (noun) a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) | Synonyms: gun |
| gunmetal | (noun) a type of bronze used for parts subject to wear or corrosion (especially corrosion by sea water) | - |
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| gunnel | (noun) small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic | Synonyms: bracketed blenny |
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| (noun) wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel | Synonyms: gun rest, gunwale |
| gunner | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, cannoneer, machine gunner |
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| gunnery | (noun) guns collectively | - |
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| gunny | (noun) coarse jute fabric | Synonyms: burlap |
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| gunnysack | (noun) a bag made of burlap | Synonyms: burlap bag, gunny sack |
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| gunplay | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, shootout |
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| gunpoint | (noun) the gun muzzle's direction | Synonyms: point |
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| gunpowder | (noun) a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks | Synonyms: powder |
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| gunrunner | (noun) a smuggler of guns | Synonyms: arms-runner |
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| gunrunning | (noun) the smuggling of guns and ammunition into a country secretly and illegally | - |
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| gunshot | (noun) the act of shooting a gun | Synonyms: gunfire |
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| gunsight | (noun) a sight used for aiming a gun | Synonyms: gun-sight |
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| gunslinger | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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| gunsmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs guns | - |
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| gunstock | (noun) the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun | Synonyms: stock |
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| gunwale | (noun) wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel | Synonyms: gun rest, gunnel |
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| guppy | (noun) small freshwater fish of South America and the West Indies; often kept in aquariums | Synonyms: Lebistes reticulatus, rainbow fish |
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| 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 | - |
| gurnard | (noun) bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom | - |
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| gurney | (noun) a metal stretcher with wheels | - |
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| guru | (noun) a Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher | - |
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| (noun) a recognized leader in some field or of some movement | - |
| gush | (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, ebullition, effusion, outburst |
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| (noun) a sudden rapid flow (as of water) | Synonyms: flush, outpouring |
| (verb) praise enthusiastically | Synonyms: rave |
| (verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: jet |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: spirt, spout, spurt |
| gusher | (noun) an oil well with a strong natural flow so that pumping is not necessary | - |
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| gushing | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: effusive, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, effusive |
| (adjective) flowing profusely | Synonyms: pouring |
| gushingly | (adverb) in a gushing manner | - |
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| gushy | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: effusive, gushing |
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| gusset | (noun) a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment | Synonyms: inset |
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| (noun) a metal plate used to strengthen a joist | Synonyms: gusset plate |
| (noun) a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate | Synonyms: voider |
| gusseted | (adjective) provided or reinforced with gussets | - |
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| gust | (noun) a strong current of air | Synonyms: blast, blow |
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| gustation | (noun) the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | Synonyms: gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste |
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| gustative | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustatorial, gustatory |
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| gustatorial | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatory |
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| gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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| gusto | (noun) vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment | Synonyms: relish, zest, zestfulness |
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| gusty | (adjective) blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts | Synonyms: puffy |
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| gut | (noun) a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery | Synonyms: catgut |
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| (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: bowel, intestine |
| (noun) a narrow channel or strait | - |
| (verb) remove the guts of | - |
| (verb) empty completely; destroy the inside of | - |
| gutless | (adjective) lacking courage or vitality | Synonyms: namby-pamby, spineless, wishy-washy |
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| gutlessness | (noun) the trait of lacking courage and determination; fearful of loss or injury | - |
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| guts | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, grit, gumption, moxie, sand |
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| gutsiness | (noun) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury | Synonyms: pluck, pluckiness |
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| gutsy | (adjective) marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited | Synonyms: plucky |
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| gutter | (noun) a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater | Synonyms: trough |
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| (noun) a tool for gutting fish | - |
| (noun) a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.) | - |
| (noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money | Synonyms: sewer, toilet |
| (verb) provide with gutters | - |
| (verb) wear or cut gutters into | - |
| (verb) flow in small streams | - |
| (verb) burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker | - |
| guttersnipe | (noun) a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas | Synonyms: street urchin |
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| guttle | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, pig, raven |
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| guttural | (adjective) relating to or articulated in the throat | - |
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| (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: croaky |
| (noun) a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat | Synonyms: guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant |
| gutturally | (adverb) in a guttural manner | - |
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| guvnor | (noun) (British slang) person in command | - |
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| guy | (noun) a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) | Synonyms: guy cable, guy rope, guy wire |
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| (noun) an informal term for a youth or man | Synonyms: bozo, cat, hombre, sod |
| (verb) steady or support with a guy wire or cable | - |
| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast |
| guyot | (noun) a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the Pacific Ocean) | - |
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| guzzle | (verb) drink greedily or as if with great thirst | - |
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| guzzler | (noun) someone who drinks heavily (especially alcoholic beverages) | - |
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| (noun) a drinker who swallows large amounts greedily | Synonyms: gulper |
| guzzling | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: gulping, swilling |
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| handgun | (noun) a firearm that is held and fired with one hand | Synonyms: pistol, shooting iron, side arm |
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| harangue | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: rant, ranting |
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| (verb) deliver a harangue to; address forcefully | - |
| haranguer | (noun) a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech | - |
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| hexangular | (adjective) having six sides or divided into hexagons | Synonyms: hexagonal |
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| hindgut | (noun) the caudal part of the alimentary canal in vertebrate embryos | - |
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| houseguest | (noun) a guest entertained in your house | Synonyms: house guest |
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| hypnagogue | (noun) an agent that induces drowsiness or sleep | - |
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| idealogue | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer |
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| ideologue | (noun) an advocate of some ideology | Synonyms: ideologist |
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| iguana | (noun) large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America | Synonyms: common iguana, Iguana iguana |
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| iguanid | (noun) lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males | Synonyms: iguanid lizard |
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| iguanodon | (noun) massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail; common in Europe and northern Africa; early Cretaceous period | - |
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| inarguable | (adjective) against which no argument can be made | Synonyms: unarguable |
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| inarguably | (adverb) in an unarguable and undisputed manner | Synonyms: unarguably, undisputedly |
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| inaugural | (adjective) occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction | - |
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| (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, initiative, initiatory, maiden |
| (noun) the ceremonial induction into a position | Synonyms: inauguration |
| (noun) an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) | Synonyms: inaugural address |
| inaugurally | (adverb) so as to inaugurate | - |
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| inaugurate | (verb) be a precursor of | Synonyms: introduce, usher in |
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| (verb) commence officially | Synonyms: kick off |
| (verb) open ceremoniously or dedicate formally | - |
| inauguration | (noun) the ceremonial induction into a position | Synonyms: inaugural |
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| (noun) the act of starting a new operation or practice | Synonyms: startup |
| indistinguishability | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, identity |
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| indistinguishable | (adjective) not capable of being distinguished or differentiated | Synonyms: undistinguishable |
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| (adjective) exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different | Synonyms: identical |
| inextinguishable | (adjective) difficult or impossible to extinguish | - |
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| inguen | (noun) the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals | Synonyms: groin |
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| inguinal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the groin | - |
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| ingurgitate | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| integument | (noun) an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell | - |
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| integumental | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumentary |
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| integumentary | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumental |
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| interlanguage | (noun) a common language used by speakers of different languages | Synonyms: koine, lingua franca |
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| intralinguistic | (adjective) within a particular language | - |
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| intrigue | (noun) a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends | Synonyms: machination |
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| (noun) a clandestine love affair | - |
| (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: connive, scheme |
| (verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: fascinate |
| intriguer | (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: designer |
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| intriguing | (adjective) capable of arousing interest or curiosity | - |
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| (adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: challenging |
| irregular | (adjective) contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice | - |
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| (adjective) (of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement | - |
| (adjective) (used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces | - |
| (adjective) deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal | Synonyms: atypical |
| (adjective) failing to meet a standard of manufacture due to an imperfection | - |
| (adjective) lacking continuity or regularity | Synonyms: temporary |
| (adjective) not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals | Synonyms: unpredictable |
| (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: maverick, unorthodox |
| (adjective) (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical | - |
| (noun) merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name | Synonyms: second |
| (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, guerrilla, insurgent |
| irregularity | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| (noun) not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals | Synonyms: unregularity |
| (noun) an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern | Synonyms: geometrical irregularity |
| (noun) irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis | Synonyms: constipation |
| irregularly | (adverb) in an inconstant manner, not according to fixed rate or schedule | Synonyms: on an irregular basis |
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| (adverb) at an uneven rate | - |
| (adverb) having an irregular form | - |
| jagua | (noun) tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit | Synonyms: Genipa Americana, genipap fruit, marmalade box |
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| jaguar | (noun) a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis | Synonyms: Felis onca, panther, Panthera onca |
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| jaguarondi | (noun) long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | Synonyms: eyra, Felis yagouaroundi, jaguarundi, jaguarundi cat |
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| jaguarundi | (noun) long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | Synonyms: eyra, Felis yagouaroundi, jaguarondi, jaguarundi cat |
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| jugular | (adjective) relating to or located in the region of the neck or throat | - |
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| (noun) a vital part that is vulnerable to attack | - |
| (noun) veins in the neck that return blood from the head | Synonyms: jugular vein, vena jugularis |