| gnawer | (noun) relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: rodent |
|---|
| gneiss | (noun) a laminated metamorphic rock similar to granite | - |
|---|
| gnetum | (noun) small tropical tree with tiered branches and divaricate branchlets having broad glossy dark green leaves; exploited for its edible young leaves and seeds that provide a fine flour | Synonyms: Gnetum gnemon |
|---|
| gnocchi | (noun) (Italian) a small dumpling made of potato or flour or semolina that is boiled or baked and is usually served with a sauce or with grated cheese | - |
|---|
| gnome | (noun) a short pithy saying expressing a general truth | - |
|---|
| (noun) a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure | Synonyms: dwarf |
| gnomic | (adjective) relating to or containing gnomes | - |
|---|
| gnomish | (adjective) used of small deformed creatures | - |
|---|
| gnomon | (noun) indicator provided by the stationary arm whose shadow indicates the time on the sundial | - |
|---|
| gnosis | (noun) intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths; said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics | - |
|---|
| gnostic | (adjective) possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things | - |
|---|
| gnu | (noun) large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail | Synonyms: wildebeest |
|---|
| go | (adjective) functioning correctly and ready for action | - |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| goading | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
|---|
| goal | (noun) a successful attempt at scoring | - |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| goalmouth | (noun) (sports) the area immediately in front of the goal | - |
|---|
| 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 | - |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| (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 | - |
|---|
| goateed | (adjective) having a small pointed chin beard | - |
|---|
| goatfish | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: Mullus surmuletus, red mullet, surmullet |
|---|
| goatherd | (noun) a person who tends a flock of goats | Synonyms: goat herder |
|---|
| goatsbeard | (noun) weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis |
|---|
| goatsfoot | (noun) short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers | Synonyms: goat's foot, Oxalis caprina |
|---|
| goatskin | (noun) the hide of a goat | - |
|---|
| goatsucker | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, nightjar |
|---|
| gob | (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, hole, maw, trap, yap |
|---|
| (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 | - |
|---|
| gobble | (noun) the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock | - |
|---|
| (verb) make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys | - |
| (verb) eat hastily without proper chewing | Synonyms: bolt |
| gobbledygook | (noun) incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists | - |
|---|
| gobbler | (noun) male turkey | Synonyms: tom, tom turkey, turkey cock |
|---|
| (noun) a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls | - |
| goblet | (noun) a drinking glass with a base and stem | - |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| gobs | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
|---|
| gobsmacked | (adjective) utterly astounded | - |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| god | (noun) a material effigy that is worshipped | Synonyms: graven image, idol |
|---|
| (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 | - |
|---|
| goddam | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
|---|
| (adverb) expressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise | Synonyms: goddamn, goddamned |
| goddamn | (adjective) used as expletives | Synonyms: damn |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| (adverb) expressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise | Synonyms: goddam, goddamn |
| goddaughter | (noun) a female godchild | - |
|---|
| goddess | (noun) a female deity | - |
|---|
| godfather | (noun) any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| godless | (adjective) not revering god | Synonyms: irreverent |
|---|
| godlessness | (noun) impiety by virtue of not being a godly person | Synonyms: ungodliness |
|---|
| godlike | (adjective) being or having the nature of a god | Synonyms: divine |
|---|
| (adjective) appropriate to or befitting a god | Synonyms: divine |
| godliness | (noun) piety by virtue of being a godly person | - |
|---|
| godly | (adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: divine |
|---|
| (adjective) showing great reverence for god | Synonyms: reverent, worshipful |
| godmother | (noun) any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
|---|
| godown | (noun) (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse | - |
|---|
| godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| godson | (noun) a male godchild | - |
|---|
| godwit | (noun) large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill | - |
|---|
| goer | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: departer, leaver |
|---|
| goethite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: gothite |
|---|
| gofer | (noun) an employee whose duties include running errands | - |
|---|
| goffer | (noun) an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats | Synonyms: gauffer |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| goggles | (noun) (plural) tight-fitting spectacles worn to protect the eyes | - |
|---|
| going | (adjective) in full operation | - |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| goitrogen | (noun) any substance (such as thiouracil) that induces the formation of a goiter | - |
|---|
| gold | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilded, gilt, golden |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| goldbrick | (noun) anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | - |
|---|
| (noun) a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not | - |
| (noun) an idle worthless person | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account |
| (noun) a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort | - |
| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, shirk, shrink from |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| goldbricking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering |
|---|
| goldcrest | (noun) European kinglet with a black-bordered yellow crown patch | Synonyms: golden-crested kinglet, Regulus regulus |
|---|
| goldcup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, kingcup |
|---|
| golden | (adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: fortunate |
|---|
| (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilded, gilt, gold |
| (adjective) marked by peace and prosperity | Synonyms: halcyon, prosperous |
| (adjective) made from or covered with gold | Synonyms: gilded, gold |
| (adjective) suggestive of gold | - |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, lucky, prosperous |
| goldenbush | (noun) a plant of the genus Haplopappus | - |
|---|
| (noun) any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America | - |
| goldeneye | (noun) large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions | Synonyms: Bucephela clangula, whistler |
|---|
| (noun) a variety of green lacewing | Synonyms: golden-eyed fly |
| goldenrod | (noun) any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago | - |
|---|
| goldenseal | (noun) perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves | Synonyms: golden seal, Hydrastis Canadensis, turmeric root, yellow root |
|---|
| goldfield | (noun) a district where gold is mined | - |
|---|
| goldfields | (noun) small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated | Synonyms: Lasthenia chrysostoma |
|---|
| goldfinch | (noun) small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings | Synonyms: Carduelis carduelis |
|---|
| (noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis, yellowbird |
| goldfish | (noun) small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes | Synonyms: Carassius auratus |
|---|
| goldilocks | (noun) early-flowering perennial of southern and southeastern Europe with flower heads resembling those of goldenrod | Synonyms: Aster linosyris, goldilocks aster, Linosyris vulgaris |
|---|
| goldmine | (noun) a mine where gold ore is found | Synonyms: gold mine |
|---|
| (noun) a good source of something that is desired | Synonyms: gold mine |
| goldplate | (verb) plate with gold | Synonyms: gold-plate, gold plate |
|---|
| goldsmith | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldworker |
|---|
| goldsmithery | (noun) the work, art, or trade of a one who makes or deals in articles of gold. | - |
|---|
| goldstone | (noun) aventurine spangled densely with fine gold-colored particles | - |
|---|
| goldthread | (noun) low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers | Synonyms: Coptis groenlandica, Coptis trifolia groenlandica, golden thread |
|---|
| goldworker | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldsmith |
|---|
| golem | (noun) a mechanism that can move automatically | Synonyms: automaton, robot |
|---|
| (noun) (Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means | - |
| golf | (noun) a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes | Synonyms: golf game |
|---|
| (verb) play golf | - |
| golfcart | (noun) a small motor vehicle in which golfers can ride between shots | Synonyms: golf cart |
|---|
| golfclub | (noun) golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball | Synonyms: club, golf-club, golf club |
|---|
| golfer | (noun) someone who plays the game of golf | Synonyms: golf player, linksman |
|---|
| golfing | (noun) playing golf | - |
|---|