| glabella | (noun) a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges | Synonyms: mesophyron |
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| glabellar | (adjective) of or relating to the glabella | - |
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| glabrescent | (adjective) lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless | - |
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| glabrous | (adjective) having no hair or similar growth; smooth | - |
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| glace | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalised, crystalized |
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| glacial | (adjective) relating to or derived from a glacier | - |
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| (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, icy, polar |
| (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frigid, frosty, frozen, icy, wintry |
| glacially | (adverb) by a glacier | - |
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| glaciate | (verb) become frozen and covered with glaciers | - |
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| (verb) cover with ice or snow or a glacier | - |
| glaciated | (adjective) covered with ice (as by a glacier) or affected by glacial action | - |
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| glaciation | (noun) the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being covered with glaciers or masses of ice; the result of glacial action | - |
| glacier | (noun) a slowly moving mass of ice | - |
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| glad | (adjective) showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy | - |
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| (adjective) cheerful and bright | Synonyms: beaming |
| (adjective) feeling happy appreciation | - |
| (adjective) eagerly disposed to act or to be of service | Synonyms: happy |
| (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated | Synonyms: gladiola, gladiolus, sword lily |
| gladden | (verb) become glad or happy | - |
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| (verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: joy |
| gladdened | (adjective) made joyful | Synonyms: exhilarated |
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| gladdon | (noun) iris with purple flowers and foul-smelling leaves; southern and western Europe and North Africa | Synonyms: gladdon iris, Iris foetidissima, roast beef plant, stinking gladwyn, stinking iris |
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| glade | (noun) a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area | Synonyms: clearing |
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| gladfulness | (noun) experiencing joy and pleasure | Synonyms: gladness, gladsomeness |
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| gladiator | (noun) (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer | Synonyms: prizefighter |
| gladiatorial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling gladiators or their combat | - |
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| gladiola | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated | Synonyms: glad, gladiolus, sword lily |
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| gladiolus | (noun) the large central part of the breastbone | Synonyms: corpus sternum |
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| (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated | Synonyms: glad, gladiola, sword lily |
| gladly | (adverb) with pleasure | Synonyms: fain, lief |
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| gladness | (noun) experiencing joy and pleasure | Synonyms: gladfulness, gladsomeness |
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| gladsome | (adjective) experiencing or expressing gladness or joy | - |
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| gladsomeness | (noun) experiencing joy and pleasure | Synonyms: gladfulness, gladness |
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| glamor | (noun) alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) | Synonyms: glamour |
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| glamorisation | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorization, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| glamorise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, glamourize |
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| glamorization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| glamorize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamourise, glamourize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamourise, romanticise, romanticize |
| glamorous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamourous |
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| glamour | (noun) alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) | Synonyms: glamor |
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| (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, hex, jinx, witch |
| glamourisation | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamorization, glamourization |
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| glamourise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, romanticise, romanticize |
| glamourization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamorization, glamourisation |
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| glamourize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourise |
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| glamourous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamorous |
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| glamping | (noun) Camping glamorously, i.e., with expensive equipment | - |
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| glance | (noun) a quick look | Synonyms: coup d'oeil, glimpse |
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| (verb) hit at an angle | - |
| (verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glint, peek |
| gland | (noun) any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream | Synonyms: secreter, secretor, secretory organ |
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| glanders | (noun) a destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans | - |
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| glandular | (adjective) relating to or affecting or functioning as a gland | - |
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| glans | (noun) a small rounded structure; especially that at the end of the penis or clitoris | - |
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| glare | (noun) an angry stare | Synonyms: glower |
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| (noun) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted | Synonyms: blaze, brilliance |
| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: limelight, public eye, spotlight |
| (verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glower |
| (verb) shine intensely | - |
| (verb) be sharply reflected | - |
| glareole | (noun) Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers | Synonyms: pratincole |
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| glaring | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glary |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, gross, rank |
| glaringly | (adverb) in a glaring manner | - |
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| glary | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring |
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| glasnost | (noun) a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems | - |
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| glass | (noun) a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking | Synonyms: drinking glass |
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| (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
| (noun) a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror | Synonyms: looking glass |
| (noun) a small refracting telescope | Synonyms: field glass, spyglass |
| (noun) glassware collectively | - |
| (noun) the quantity a glass will hold | Synonyms: glassful |
| (noun) a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure | - |
| (verb) become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance | Synonyms: glass over, glaze, glaze over |
| (verb) put in a glass container | - |
| (verb) enclose with glass | Synonyms: glass in |
| (verb) scan (game in the forest) with binoculars | - |
| (verb) furnish with glass | Synonyms: glaze |
| glassblower | (noun) someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass | - |
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| glassed | (adjective) fitted or covered with glass | Synonyms: glazed |
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| glasses | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: eyeglasses, specs, spectacles |
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| glassful | (noun) the quantity a glass will hold | Synonyms: glass |
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| glasshouse | (noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: greenhouse |
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| glassless | (adjective) not furnished with glass | Synonyms: unglazed |
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| glassmaker | (noun) someone who makes glass | - |
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| glassware | (noun) an article of tableware made of glass | Synonyms: glasswork |
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| glasswork | (noun) an article of tableware made of glass | Synonyms: glassware |
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| glassworker | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glazer, glazier |
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| glassworks | (noun) a workplace where glass is made | - |
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| glasswort | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: Salicornia europaea, samphire |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
| glassy | (adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness | Synonyms: glazed |
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| (adjective) (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | Synonyms: vitreous, vitrified |
| (adjective) resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness | - |
| glaucoma | (noun) an eye disease that damages the optic nerve and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness) | - |
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| glauconite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated silicate of potassium or iron or magnesium or aluminum; found in greensand | - |
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| glaucous | (adjective) having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants | - |
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| glaze | (noun) a coating for ceramics, metal, etc. | - |
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| (noun) a glossy finish on a fabric | - |
| (noun) any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods | - |
| (verb) become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance | Synonyms: glass, glass over, glaze over |
| (verb) coat with a glaze | - |
| (verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: candy, sugarcoat |
| (verb) furnish with glass | Synonyms: glass |
| glazed | (adjective) having a shiny surface or coating | Synonyms: shiny |
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| (adjective) fitted or covered with glass | Synonyms: glassed |
| (adjective) (of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture | - |
| (adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness | Synonyms: glassy |
| glazer | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glassworker, glazier |
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| glazier | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glassworker, glazer |
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| gleam | (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleaming, glow, lambency |
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| (noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleaming, glimmer |
| (verb) to shine with faint or brief light | - |
| (verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: glimmer |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: glint, glisten, glitter, shine |
| gleaming | (adjective) bright with a steady but subdued shining | Synonyms: agleam, nitid |
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| (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, glow, lambency |
| (noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleam, glimmer |
| glean | (verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: harvest, reap |
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| gleaner | (noun) someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters | - |
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| (noun) someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully | - |
| gleba | (noun) fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn | - |
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| glebe | (noun) plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office | - |
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| glee | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: gleefulness, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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| (noun) malicious satisfaction | Synonyms: gloat, gloating |
| gleeful | (adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, joyful, jubilant |
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| gleefully | (adverb) in a joyous and gleeful manner | Synonyms: joyfully, joyously |
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| gleefulness | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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| gleet | (noun) a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea | - |
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| glen | (noun) a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains) | - |
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| glia | (noun) sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system; glial and neural cells together compose the tissue of the central nervous system | Synonyms: neuroglia |
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| glial | (adjective) of or relating to neuroglia | - |
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| glib | (adjective) artfully persuasive in speech | Synonyms: glib-tongued, smooth-tongued |
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| (adjective) having only superficial plausibility | Synonyms: pat, slick |
| (adjective) marked by lack of intellectual depth | - |
| glibly | (adverb) with superficial plausibility | Synonyms: slickly |
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| glibness | (noun) a kind of fluent easy superficiality | Synonyms: slickness |
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| glide | (noun) the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it | Synonyms: coast, slide |
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| (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: gliding, sailing, sailplaning, soaring |
| (noun) a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant | Synonyms: semivowel |
| (verb) move smoothly and effortlessly | - |
| (verb) fly in or as if in a glider plane | - |
| (verb) cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly | - |
| glider | (noun) aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces | Synonyms: sailplane |
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| gliding | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, sailing, sailplaning, soaring |
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| glimmer | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmering, inkling, intimation |
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| (noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming |
| (verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: gleam |
| glimmering | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, inkling, intimation |
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| glimmery | (adjective) shining softly and intermittently | - |
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| glimpse | (noun) a quick look | Synonyms: coup d'oeil, glance |
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| (noun) a brief or incomplete view | - |
| (noun) a vague indication | - |
| (verb) catch a glimpse of or see briefly | - |
| glint | (noun) a spatially localized brightness | - |
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| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: flicker, spark |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glisten, glitter, shine |
| (verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glance, peek |
| glinting | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glioblastoma | (noun) a fast-growing malignant brain tumor composed of spongioblasts; nearly always fatal | Synonyms: spongioblastoma |
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| glioma | (noun) a tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia | - |
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| glipizide | (noun) an oral antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucotrol) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas | Synonyms: Glucotrol |
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| gliricidia | (noun) any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonous | - |
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