| gar | (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: billfish, garfish, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
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| (noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: billfish, needlefish |
| garage | (noun) an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles | - |
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| (noun) a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired | Synonyms: service department |
| (verb) keep or store in a garage | - |
| garambulla | (noun) small berrylike fruit | - |
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| (noun) arborescent cactus of western Mexico bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruit | Synonyms: garambulla cactus, Myrtillocactus geometrizans |
| garb | (noun) clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion | Synonyms: attire, dress |
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| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
| garbage | (noun) a receptacle where waste can be discarded | - |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: drivel |
| (noun) food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) | Synonyms: food waste, refuse, scraps |
| garbageman | (noun) someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse | Synonyms: dustman, garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, refuse collector |
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| garbanzo | (noun) large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | Synonyms: chickpea |
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| (noun) the seed of the chickpea plant | Synonyms: chickpea |
| garbed | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, attired, dressed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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| garble | (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, falsify, warp |
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| garbled | (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
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| garboard | (noun) the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship | Synonyms: garboard plank, garboard strake |
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| garboil | (noun) a state of commotion and noise and confusion | Synonyms: tumult, tumultuousness, uproar |
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| garbology | (noun) the study of a society by analyzing its garbage | - |
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| gardant | (adjective) looking forward | Synonyms: full-face, guardant |
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| garden | (adjective) the usual or familiar type | - |
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| (noun) a plot of ground where plants are cultivated | - |
| (noun) a yard or lawn adjoining a house | - |
| (noun) the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden | - |
| (verb) work in the garden | - |
| gardener | (noun) someone who takes care of a garden | Synonyms: nurseryman |
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| (noun) someone employed to work in a garden | - |
| gardenia | (noun) any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers | - |
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| gardening | (noun) the cultivation of plants | Synonyms: horticulture |
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| garfish | (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: billfish, gar, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
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| garganey | (noun) small Eurasian teal | Synonyms: Anas querquedula |
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| gargantuan | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, giant, jumbo |
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| garget | (noun) tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous | Synonyms: Phytolacca americana, pigeon berry, poke, scoke |
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| gargle | (noun) the sound produced while gargling | - |
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| (noun) a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth | Synonyms: mouthwash |
| (verb) rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash | Synonyms: rinse |
| (verb) utter with gargling or burbling sounds | - |
| gargoyle | (noun) an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
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| (noun) a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
| gargoylism | (noun) hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation | Synonyms: dysostosis multiplex, Hurler's disease, Hurler's syndrome, lipochondrodystrophy |
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| gari | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, mandioc, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, manioc, tapioca plant |
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| garibaldi | (noun) a loose high-necked blouse with long sleeves; styled after the red flannel shirts worn by Garibaldi's soldiers | - |
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| garish | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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| garishly | (adverb) in a tastelessly garish manner | Synonyms: gaudily, tawdrily |
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| garishness | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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| (noun) strident color or excessive ornamentation | Synonyms: gaudiness |
| garland | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, lei, wreath |
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| (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, miscellany |
| (verb) adorn with bands of flowers or leaves | - |
| garlic | (noun) aromatic bulb used as seasoning | Synonyms: ail |
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| (noun) bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves | Synonyms: Allium sativum |
| garlicky | (adjective) relating to or tasting or smelling of garlic | - |
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| garment | (noun) an article of clothing | - |
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| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, habilitate, raiment, tog |
| garmented | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, attired, dressed, garbed, habilimented, robed |
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| garmentless | (adjective) possessing no clothing | Synonyms: clothesless, raimentless |
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| garmentmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: dressmaker, garment-worker, garment worker |
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| garner | (noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | Synonyms: granary |
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| (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, gather, pull together |
| (verb) store grain | - |
| (verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | Synonyms: earn, win |
| garnet | (noun) any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive | - |
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| garnierite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel | - |
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| garnish | (noun) any decoration added as a trimming or adornment | - |
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| (noun) something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration | - |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, trim |
| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnishee |
| garnishee | (noun) a wage earner who is served with a garnishment | - |
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| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnish |
| garnishment | (noun) a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee | - |
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| garotte | (noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | Synonyms: garrote, garrotte, iron collar |
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| (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garrote, garrotte, scrag |
| garpike | (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: billfish, gar, garfish, Lepisosteus osseus |
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| garret | (noun) floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage | Synonyms: attic, loft |
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| garrison | (noun) a fortified military post where troops are stationed | Synonyms: fort |
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| (noun) the troops who maintain and guard a fortified place | - |
| (verb) station (troops) in a fort or garrison | - |
| garrote | (noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | Synonyms: garotte, garrotte, iron collar |
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| (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrotte, scrag |
| garroter | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garrotter, strangler, throttler |
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| garrotte | (noun) an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, iron collar |
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| (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, scrag |
| garrotter | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, strangler, throttler |
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| garrulity | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness |
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| garrulous | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky |
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| garrulously | (adverb) in a chatty loquacious manner | Synonyms: loquaciously, talkatively, talkily |
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| garrulousness | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness |
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| garter | (noun) a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) | Synonyms: supporter |
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| (verb) fasten with or as if with a garter | - |