| gab | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| (verb) talk profusely | Synonyms: yak |
| gabapentin | (noun) an anticonvulsant (trade name Neurontin) used to control some types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy; also used to manage neuralgia caused by shingles | Synonyms: Neurontin |
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| gabardine | (noun) a firm durable fabric with a twill weave | - |
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| (noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles | Synonyms: dust coat, duster, gaberdine, smock |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: flannel, tweed, white |
| gabble | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: jabber, jabbering |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| gabbro | (noun) one of a family of granular intrusive rocks | - |
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| gabby | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky |
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| gaberdine | (noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles | Synonyms: dust coat, duster, gabardine, smock |
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| gabfest | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| gable | (noun) the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof | Synonyms: gable end, gable wall |
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| gabled | (adjective) (of a roof) constructed with a single slope on each side of the ridge supported at the end by a gable or vertical triangular portion of an end wall | - |
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| gad | (noun) a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward | Synonyms: spur |
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| (verb) wander aimlessly in search of pleasure | Synonyms: gallivant, jazz around |
| gadabout | (noun) a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship | - |
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| gaddi | (noun) a cushion on a throne for a prince in India | - |
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| gadfly | (noun) any of various large flies that annoy livestock | - |
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| (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: blighter, cuss, pest, pesterer |
| gadget | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gismo, gizmo, widget |
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| gadgeteer | (noun) a person who delights in designing or building or using gadgets | - |
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| gadgetry | (noun) appliances collectively | - |
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| gadoid | (noun) a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae | Synonyms: gadoid fish |
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| gadolinite | (noun) a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium | Synonyms: ytterbite |
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| gadolinium | (noun) a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group | Synonyms: atomic number 64, Gd |
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| gaff | (noun) an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish | - |
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| (noun) a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail | - |
| (noun) a sharp metal spike or spur that is fastened to the leg of a gamecock | - |
| gaffe | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaucherie, slip, solecism |
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| gaffer | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, foreman, honcho |
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| (noun) an elderly man | Synonyms: antique, old-timer, old geezer, oldtimer |
| (noun) an electrician responsible for lighting on a movie or tv set | - |
| gaffsail | (noun) a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff | Synonyms: gaff-headed sail |
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| gag | (noun) restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting | Synonyms: muzzle |
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| (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: jape, jest, joke, laugh |
| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, strangle, suffocate |
| (verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: heave, retch |
| (verb) cause to retch or choke | Synonyms: choke |
| (verb) make jokes or quips | Synonyms: quip |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: choke, fret |
| (verb) tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them | Synonyms: muzzle |
| (verb) prevent from speaking out | Synonyms: muzzle |
| gaga | (adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | Synonyms: crazy, dotty, wild |
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| (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddering, doddery, senile |
| gage | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. | Synonyms: gauge |
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| (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
| (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: back, bet on, game, punt, stake |
| gaggle | (noun) a flock of geese | - |
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| (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: cackle |
| gagman | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagster, gagwriter |
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| (noun) a comedian who uses gags | Synonyms: standup comedian |
| gagster | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagman, gagwriter |
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| gagwriter | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagman, gagster |
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| gaiety | (noun) a gay feeling | Synonyms: merriment |
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| (noun) a festive merry feeling | Synonyms: playfulness |
| gaillardia | (noun) any plant of western America of the genus Gaillardia having hairy leaves and long-stalked flowers in hot vibrant colors from golden yellow and copper to rich burgundy | - |
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| gaily | (adverb) in a gay manner | - |
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| gain | (noun) the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input | Synonyms: amplification |
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| (noun) the advantageous quality of being beneficial | Synonyms: profit |
| (noun) the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating | - |
| (noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: addition, increase |
| (verb) increase (one's body weight) | Synonyms: put on |
| (verb) rise in rate or price | Synonyms: advance |
| (verb) increase or develop | Synonyms: gather |
| (verb) obtain advantages, such as points, etc. | Synonyms: advance, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, hit, make, reach |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
| (verb) win something through one's efforts | Synonyms: acquire, win |
| (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: benefit, profit |
| (verb) obtain | Synonyms: derive |
| gainer | (noun) a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board | Synonyms: full gainer |
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| (noun) a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits) | - |
| (noun) a person who gains weight | Synonyms: weight gainer |
| gainful | (adjective) yielding a fair profit | Synonyms: paid, paying |
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| gainfully | (adverb) in a gainful way | - |
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| gainfulness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: lucrativeness, profitability, profitableness |
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| gainlessly | (adverb) without gain or profit | Synonyms: profitlessly, unprofitably |
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| gainly | (adjective) graceful and pleasing | - |
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| gainsay | (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, dispute |
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| gait | (noun) a person's manner of walking | - |
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| (noun) a horse's manner of moving | - |
| (noun) the rate of moving (especially walking or running) | Synonyms: pace |
| gaiter | (noun) legging consisting of a cloth or leather covering for the leg from the knee to the ankle | - |
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| (noun) a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles | Synonyms: spat |
| (noun) a shoe covering the ankle with elastic gores in the sides | - |
| gal | (noun) alliterative term for girl (or woman) | - |
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| (noun) United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters | Synonyms: gallon |
| (noun) a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo) | - |
| gala | (noun) a gay festivity | Synonyms: blowout, gala affair, jamboree |
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| galactagogue | (noun) agent that induces milk secretion | - |
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| galactic | (adjective) of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky Way) | - |
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| (adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomic, astronomical |
| galactocele | (noun) a cystic tumor containing milk or a milky substance (especially in the mammary glands) | - |
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| galactose | (noun) a simple sugar found in lactose | Synonyms: brain sugar |
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| galactosemia | (noun) a genetic disease (autosomal recessive) in which an enzyme needed to metabolize galactose is deficient or absent; typically develops shortly after birth | - |
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| galactosis | (noun) the secretion of milk | - |
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| galago | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, bushbaby |
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| galangal | (noun) southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots | Synonyms: Alpinia galanga |
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| (noun) European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Cyperus longus, galingale |
| galantine | (noun) boned poultry stuffed then cooked and covered with aspic; served cold | - |
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| galax | (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: beetleweed, coltsfoot, Galax urceolata, galaxy, wandflower |
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| galaxy | (noun) (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust | Synonyms: extragalactic nebula |
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| (noun) a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people) | - |
| (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: beetleweed, coltsfoot, galax, Galax urceolata, wandflower |
| galbanum | (noun) a bitter aromatic gum resin that resembles asafetida | Synonyms: gum albanum |
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| galbulus | (noun) the seed-producing cone of a cypress tree | - |
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| gale | (noun) a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale | - |
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| galea | (noun) an organ shaped like a helmet; usually a vaulted and enlarged petal as in Aconitum | - |
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| galena | (noun) soft blue-grey mineral; lead sulfide; a major source of lead | - |
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| galere | (noun) a coterie of undesirable people | Synonyms: rogue's gallery |
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| galingale | (noun) European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Cyperus longus, galangal |
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| gall | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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| (noun) a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats | Synonyms: bile |
| (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, rancor, rancour, resentment |
| (noun) abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury | - |
| (noun) a skin sore caused by chafing | - |
| (noun) an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle | Synonyms: saddle sore |
| (verb) irritate or vex | Synonyms: irk |
| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: chafe, fret |
| gallamine | (noun) neuromuscular blocking agent (trade name Flaxedil) used as a muscle relaxant in the administration of anesthesia | Synonyms: Flaxedil |
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| gallant | (adjective) unflinching in battle or action | - |
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| (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: chivalrous, knightly |
| (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: lofty, majestic, proud |
| (adjective) lively and spirited | Synonyms: dashing |
| (noun) a man who attends or escorts a woman | Synonyms: squire |
| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, sheik, swell |
| gallantly | (adverb) in a gallant manner | Synonyms: chivalrously |
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| gallantry | (noun) polite attentiveness to women | - |
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| (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: heroism, valiance, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour |
| (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: chivalry, politesse |
| gallberry | (noun) evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries | Synonyms: evergreen winterberry, gall-berry, Ilex glabra, inkberry |
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| gallbladder | (noun) a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion | Synonyms: gall bladder |
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| galled | (adjective) painful from having the skin abraded | Synonyms: chafed |
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| galleon | (noun) a large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries | - |
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| gallery | (noun) narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade | - |
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| (noun) a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns) | - |
| (noun) a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose | - |
| (noun) a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited | Synonyms: art gallery, picture gallery |
| (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: veranda, verandah |
| (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: drift, heading |
| (noun) spectators at a golf or tennis match | - |
| galley | (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: caboose, cookhouse, ship's galley |
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| (noun) the kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner | - |
| (noun) (classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars | - |
| (noun) a large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading | - |
| gallfly | (noun) any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed | - |
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| (noun) small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants | Synonyms: cynipid gall wasp, cynipid wasp, gall wasp |
| (noun) fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants | Synonyms: gall gnat, gall midge |
| gallimaufry | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| gallina | (noun) small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl | Synonyms: jungle fowl |
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| gallinacean | (noun) heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds | Synonyms: gallinaceous bird |
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| gallinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a gallinacean | - |
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| galling | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| gallinule | (noun) any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens | Synonyms: marsh hen, swamphen, water hen |
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| gallium | (noun) a rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores | Synonyms: atomic number 31, Ga |
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| gallivant | (verb) wander aimlessly in search of pleasure | Synonyms: gad, jazz around |
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| gallon | (noun) United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters | Synonyms: gal |
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| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters | Synonyms: congius, Imperial gallon |
| gallop | (noun) a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously | - |
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| (verb) ride at a galloping pace | - |
| (verb) go at galloping speed | - |
| (verb) cause to move at full gallop | Synonyms: extend |
| gallous | (noun) alternative terms for gallows | Synonyms: gallows-tree, gallows tree, gibbet |
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| gallows | (noun) an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging | - |
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| gallstone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: bilestone |
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| gallus | (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: brace, suspender |
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| galoot | (noun) a disreputable or clumsy man | - |
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| galop | (noun) music suitable for a galop dance | - |
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| galore | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: abounding |
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| (adjective) in great numbers | - |
| galosh | (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, golosh, gumshoe, rubber |
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| galumph | (verb) move around heavily and clumsily | - |
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| galvanic | (adjective) pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action | Synonyms: voltaic |
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| (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanising, galvanizing |
| galvanisation | (noun) either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting | Synonyms: galvanization |
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| (noun) stimulation that arouses a person to lively action | Synonyms: galvanization |
| (noun) stimulation with a galvanic current | Synonyms: galvanization |
| galvanise | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanize |
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| (verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanize |
| (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanize, startle |
| galvaniser | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvanizer, inspirer |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc | Synonyms: galvanizer |
| galvanising | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanizing |
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