| glucagon | (noun) a hormone secreted by the pancreas; stimulates increases in blood sugar levels in the blood (thus opposing the action of insulin) | - |
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| glucinium | (noun) a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element | Synonyms: atomic number 4, Be, beryllium |
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| glucocorticoid | (noun) a steroid hormone that is produced by the adrenal cortex of animals; affects functioning of gonads and has anti-inflammatory activity | - |
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| glucosamine | (noun) an amino derivative of glucose that is a component of many polysaccharides | - |
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| glucose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy | - |
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| glucoside | (noun) a glycoside derived from glucose | - |
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| glucosuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of glucose in the urine | - |
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| glue | (noun) cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive | Synonyms: gum, mucilage |
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| (verb) be fixed as if by glue | - |
| (verb) join or attach with or as if with glue | Synonyms: paste |
| glued | (adjective) affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste | Synonyms: pasted |
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| gluey | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| glueyness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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| glug | (verb) make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle | - |
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| gluiness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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| glum | (adjective) moody and melancholic | - |
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| (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
| glume | (noun) small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae | - |
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| glumly | (adverb) in a sullen manner | Synonyms: dourly, sullenly |
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| glumness | (noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: moroseness, sullenness |
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| (noun) an atmosphere of depression and melancholy | Synonyms: gloom, gloominess |
| gluon | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates strong interaction among quarks | - |
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| glut | (noun) the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall | Synonyms: oversupply, surfeit |
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| (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
| (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: flood, oversupply |
| glutamate | (noun) a salt or ester of glutamic acid | - |
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| glutamine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins; important in protein metabolism | - |
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| glute | (noun) any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh | Synonyms: gluteal muscle, gluteus, gluteus muscle |
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| gluteal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the gluteus muscles | - |
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| glutelin | (noun) a simple protein found in the seeds of cereals | - |
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| gluten | (noun) a protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains; gives cohesiveness to dough | - |
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| glutethimide | (noun) sedative (trade name Doriden) used to treat some sleep disorders | Synonyms: Doriden |
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| gluteus | (noun) any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh | Synonyms: glute, gluteal muscle, gluteus muscle |
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| glutinosity | (noun) the property of having a viscosity like jelly | Synonyms: gelatinousness, glutinousness |
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| glutinous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| glutinousness | (noun) the property of having a viscosity like jelly | Synonyms: gelatinousness, glutinosity |
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| glutted | (adjective) exceeding demand | Synonyms: overfull |
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| glutton | (noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia | Synonyms: Gulo gulo, wolverine |
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| (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman |
| gluttonise | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonize |
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| gluttonize | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonise |
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| gluttonous | (adjective) given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink | - |
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| gluttonously | (adverb) in a gluttonous manner | - |
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| gluttony | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gula, overeating |
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| (noun) habitual eating to excess | - |