| germ | (noun) a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use | Synonyms: bug, microbe |
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| (noun) a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism | - |
| (noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work | Synonyms: seed, source |
| germander | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Teucrium | - |
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| germane | (adjective) relevant and appropriate | - |
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| germaneness | (noun) pertinence by virtue of a close relation to the matter at hand | - |
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| germanite | (noun) a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide | - |
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| germanium | (noun) a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite | Synonyms: atomic number 32, Ge |
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| germfree | (adjective) free from germs or pathogenic organisms; sterile | - |
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| germicidal | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: bactericidal, disinfectant |
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| germicide | (noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobial, antimicrobic, disinfectant |
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| germinal | (adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: originative, seminal |
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| germinate | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| (verb) cause to grow or sprout | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| germination | (noun) the origin of some development | - |
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| (noun) the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow | Synonyms: sprouting |
| germy | (adjective) full of germs or pathological microorganisms | - |
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