| gean | (noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting | Synonyms: mazzard, mazzard cherry |
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| gear | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: cogwheel, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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| (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, paraphernalia |
| (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gearing, geartrain, power train, train |
| (noun) a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) | Synonyms: gear mechanism |
| (verb) set the level or character of | Synonyms: pitch |
| gearbox | (noun) the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed | Synonyms: gear box, gear case |
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| geared | (adjective) equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged | - |
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| gearing | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, geartrain, power train, train |
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| gearmotor | (noun) a motor combined with a set of speed-reducing gears. | - |
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| gearset | (noun) a set of gears | - |
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| gearshift | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearstick, shifter |
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| gearstick | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, shifter |
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| geartrain | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, gearing, power train, train |
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| gecko | (noun) any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless | - |
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| gee | (noun) a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated | Synonyms: g-force, g |
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| (verb) give a command to a horse to turn to the right side | - |
| (verb) turn to the right side | - |
| geebung | (noun) any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits | - |
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| geek | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball |
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| (noun) a carnival performer who does disgusting acts | - |
| (verb) to be intoxicated | - |
| geeked | (adjective) High on a drug such as cocaine | - |
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| geezer | (noun) a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric | - |
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| geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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| gegenschein | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: counterglow |
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| geisha | (noun) a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing | Synonyms: geisha girl |
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| gel | (noun) a thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects | Synonyms: gelatin |
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| (noun) jellylike substance used in hair styling | Synonyms: hair gel |
| (noun) a colloid in a more solid form than a sol | Synonyms: colloidal gel |
| (verb) apply a styling gel to | Synonyms: mousse |
| (verb) become a gel | - |
| gelatin | (noun) a thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects | Synonyms: gel |
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| (noun) an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods | Synonyms: jelly |
| (noun) a colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin | Synonyms: gelatine |
| gelatine | (noun) a colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin | Synonyms: gelatin |
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| gelatinise | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinize |
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| (verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinize |
| gelatinize | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
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| (verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
| (verb) coat with gelatin | - |
| gelatinlike | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinous, jellylike |
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| gelatinous | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinlike, jellylike |
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| gelatinousness | (noun) the property of having a viscosity like jelly | Synonyms: glutinosity, glutinousness |
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| geld | (verb) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | Synonyms: cut |
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| gelded | (adjective) (of a male animal) having the testicles removed | Synonyms: cut, emasculated |
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| gelding | (noun) castrated male horse | - |
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| gelechiid | (noun) small slender-winged moths whose larvae are agricultural pests | Synonyms: gelechiid moth |
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| gelid | (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, frigid, glacial, icy, polar |
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| gelidity | (noun) coldness due to a cold environment | Synonyms: chill, iciness |
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| gelignite | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelly |
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| gelly | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelignite |
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| gelt | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| gem | (noun) a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: jewel, precious stone |
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| (noun) art highly prized for its beauty or perfection | Synonyms: treasure |
| (noun) a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan | Synonyms: muffin |
| (noun) a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: jewel |
| (noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | Synonyms: gemstone, stone |
| gemfibrozil | (noun) medication (trade name Lopid) used to lower the levels of triglyceride in the blood | Synonyms: Lopid |
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| geminate | (noun) a doubled or long consonant | - |
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| (verb) arrange or combine in pairs | - |
| (verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: reduplicate |
| gemination | (noun) the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something | Synonyms: duplication |
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| (noun) the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect) | - |
| gemma | (noun) small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual | - |
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| gemmation | (noun) asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual | Synonyms: pullulation |
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| gemmed | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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| gemmiferous | (adjective) bearing or reproducing by a gemma | - |
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| gemmule | (noun) the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity | - |
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| gempylid | (noun) snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide | - |
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| gemsbok | (noun) large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks | Synonyms: gemsbuck, Oryx gazella |
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| gemsbuck | (noun) large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks | Synonyms: gemsbok, Oryx gazella |
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| gemstone | (noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | Synonyms: gem, stone |
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| gen | (noun) informal term for information | - |
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| gendarme | (noun) a French policeman | - |
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| gendarmerie | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmery |
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| gendarmery | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmerie |
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| gender | (noun) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | Synonyms: sex, sexuality |
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| (noun) a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness | Synonyms: grammatical gender |
| gene | (noun) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | Synonyms: cistron, factor |
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| genealogic | (adjective) of or relating to genealogy | Synonyms: genealogical |
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| genealogical | (adjective) of or relating to genealogy | Synonyms: genealogic |
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| genealogically | (adverb) in a genealogical manner | - |
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| genealogist | (noun) an expert in genealogy | - |
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| genealogy | (noun) the study or investigation of ancestry and family history | - |
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| (noun) successive generations of kin | Synonyms: family tree |
| general | (adjective) applying to all or most members of a category or group | - |
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| (adjective) affecting the entire body | - |
| (adjective) prevailing among and common to the general public | - |
| (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
| (adjective) somewhat indefinite | - |
| (adjective) not specialized or limited to one class of things | - |
| (noun) a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular) | - |
| (noun) a general officer of the highest rank | Synonyms: full general |
| (noun) the head of a religious order or congregation | Synonyms: superior general |
| (verb) command as a general | - |
| generalcy | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalship |
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| generalisation | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generality, generalization |
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| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalization, induction, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalization, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalization |
| generalise | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalize |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalize |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalize, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generalised | (adjective) not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment | Synonyms: generalized |
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| generalissimo | (noun) the officer who holds the supreme command | Synonyms: commander-in-chief, commander in chief |
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| generalist | (noun) a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests | Synonyms: Renaissance man |
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| generality | (noun) the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability | - |
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| (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization |
| generalization | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generality |
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| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalisation, induction, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalisation, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalisation |
| generalize | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalise |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalise |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generalized | (adjective) not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment | Synonyms: generalised |
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| generally | (adverb) without regard to specific details or exceptions | Synonyms: broadly, broadly speaking, loosely |
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| (adverb) without distinction of one from others | Synonyms: in general, in the main |
| (adverb) usually; as a rule | Synonyms: by and large, more often than not, mostly |
| generalship | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalcy |
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| (noun) the leadership ability of a military general | - |
| generate | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, get, mother, sire |
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| (verb) produce, create | Synonyms: bring forth |
| (verb) produce (energy) | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: give, render, return, yield |
| generation | (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | Synonyms: multiplication, propagation |
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| (noun) the production of heat or electricity | - |
| (noun) a coming into being | Synonyms: genesis |
| (noun) group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent | - |
| (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, contemporaries |
| (noun) the normal time between successive generations | - |
| (noun) a stage of technological development or innovation | - |
| generational | (adjective) of or relating to a generation | - |
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| generative | (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: productive |
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| (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: procreative, reproductive |
| generator | (noun) engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction | - |
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| (noun) an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas | - |
| (noun) an electronic device for producing a signal voltage | - |
| (noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: author, source |
| generic | (adjective) relating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus | - |
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| (adjective) applicable to an entire class or group | - |
| (adjective) (of drugs) not protected by trademark | - |
| (noun) any product that can be sold without a brand name | - |
| (noun) wine that does not meet the minimum qualifications and standards for use of a designation by appellation of origin (where the grapes are grown) or by varietal content; may only be labeled by proprietary (made-up) name, by general color (such as `vin rouge', `vino rosso', `rotwein', `red wine', etc.), or by general class (as `vin ordinaire', `vin de table', `vino da tavola', `tafelwein', `table wine', etc.) | Synonyms: generic wine |
| generically | (adverb) as sharing a common genus | - |
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| (adverb) without a trademark or brand name | - |
| generosity | (noun) acting generously | Synonyms: unselfishness |
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| (noun) the trait of being willing to give your money or time | Synonyms: generousness |
| generous | (adjective) willing to give and share unstintingly | - |
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| (adjective) not petty in character and mind | - |
| (adjective) more than is usual or necessary | - |
| generously | (adverb) in a generous manner | Synonyms: liberally, munificently |
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| generousness | (noun) the trait of being willing to give your money or time | Synonyms: generosity |
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| genesis | (noun) a coming into being | Synonyms: generation |
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| genet | (noun) agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail | Synonyms: Genetta genetta |
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| genetic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of genetics | Synonyms: genetical |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or referring to origin | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or produced by or being a gene | Synonyms: genetical, genic |
| (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, hereditary, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
| genetical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of genetics | Synonyms: genetic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or produced by or being a gene | Synonyms: genetic, genic |
| genetically | (adverb) by genetic mechanisms | - |
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| geneticism | (noun) the belief that all human characteristics are determined genetically | - |
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| geneticist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in genetics | - |
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| genetics | (noun) the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms | Synonyms: genetic science |
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| geneva | (noun) gin made in the Netherlands | Synonyms: Holland gin, Hollands |
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| genial | (adjective) of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: mental |
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| (adjective) diffusing warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: affable, amiable, cordial |
| (adjective) agreeable, conducive to comfort | Synonyms: kind |
| geniality | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie |
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| genially | (adverb) in an affable manner | Synonyms: affably, amiably |
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| genic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by or being a gene | Synonyms: genetic, genetical |
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| geniculate | (adjective) bent at a sharp angle | - |
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| genie | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinni, djinny, jinnee, jinni |
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| genip | (noun) round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes | Synonyms: Spanish lime |
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| (noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: ginep, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |