| grid | (noun) a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat | Synonyms: gridiron |
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| (noun) an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube | Synonyms: control grid |
| (noun) a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region | Synonyms: power grid, power system |
| (noun) a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material | Synonyms: storage-battery grid |
| (noun) a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines | - |
| griddle | (noun) cooking utensil consisting of a flat heated surface (as on top of a stove) on which food is cooked | - |
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| (verb) cook on a griddle | - |
| griddlecake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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| (noun) a scone made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle | Synonyms: drop scone, Scotch pancake |
| gridiron | (noun) a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat | Synonyms: grid |
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| (noun) the playing field on which football is played | Synonyms: football field |
| gridlock | (noun) a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible | - |
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| grief | (noun) something that causes great unhappiness | Synonyms: sorrow |
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| (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, heartache, heartbreak |
| grievance | (noun) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action | - |
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| (noun) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice | - |
| (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grudge, score |
| grieve | (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: sorrow |
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| (verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: aggrieve |
| griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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| grieving | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, mourning, sorrowing |
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| grievous | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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| (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, monstrous |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, heavy, weighty |
| (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: heartbreaking, heartrending |
| grievously | (adverb) in a grievous manner | - |
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| griffin | (noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffon, gryphon |
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| griffon | (noun) breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle | Synonyms: Belgian griffon, Brussels griffon |
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| (noun) breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat; originated in Holland but largely developed in France | Synonyms: wire-haired pointing griffon |
| (noun) large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings | Synonyms: griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus |
| (noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffin, gryphon |
| grifter | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, scammer, swindler |
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| grigri | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: greegree, gres-gris |
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| grill | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grille, grillwork |
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| (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grillroom |
| (verb) cook over or under a grill | - |
| (verb) examine thoroughly | - |
| grille | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grillwork |
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| (noun) grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator | Synonyms: radiator grille |
| (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: lattice, wicket |
| grilled | (adjective) cooked over an outdoor grill | Synonyms: barbecued |
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| (adjective) cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill) | Synonyms: broiled |
| grilling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, broiling |
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| grillroom | (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grill |
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| grillwork | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: wirework |
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| (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grille |
| grim | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, low-spirited, low |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry |
| (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
| (adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: black, mordant |
| (adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, forbidding |
| grimace | (noun) a contorted facial expression | Synonyms: face |
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| (verb) contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state | Synonyms: make a face, pull a face |
| grime | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grunge, soil, stain |
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| (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, soil |
| griminess | (noun) the state of being grimy | Synonyms: grubbiness |
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| grimly | (adverb) in a grim implacable manner | - |
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| grimness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, gruesomeness, luridness |
| grimoire | (noun) a manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons) | - |
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| grimy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
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| grin | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grinning, smile, smiling |
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| (verb) to draw back the lips and reveal the teeth, in a smile, grimace, or snarl | - |
| grind | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: mill, pulverisation, pulverization |
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| (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, plodding |
| (noun) the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground | - |
| (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk |
| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, mash |
| (verb) make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together | Synonyms: grate |
| (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, crunch |
| (verb) shape or form by grinding | - |
| (verb) created by grinding | - |
| (verb) dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced | - |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| grinder | (noun) a machine tool that polishes metal | - |
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| (noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | Synonyms: mill, milling machinery |
| (noun) grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars | Synonyms: molar |
| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| grinding | (noun) a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears) | - |
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| (noun) material resulting from the process of grinding | - |
| (noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, detrition |
| grindle | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, dogfish |
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| grindstone | (noun) a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools | - |
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| gringo | (noun) a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen) | - |
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| grinner | (noun) a person who grins | - |
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| grinning | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grin, smile, smiling |
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| griot | (noun) a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village | - |
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| grip | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, hold |
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| (noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: bag, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag |
| (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: handgrip, handle, hold |
| (noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, hairgrip |
| (noun) an intellectual hold or understanding | Synonyms: grasp |
| (noun) worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made | - |
| (noun) the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road) | Synonyms: adhesive friction, traction |
| (verb) hold fast or firmly | - |
| (verb) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match | Synonyms: grapple |
| (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, spellbind, transfix |
| gripe | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, kick, squawk |
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| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, grouse, holler, squawk |
| gripes | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, griping, intestinal colic |
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| griping | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, gripes, intestinal colic |
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| grippe | (noun) an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease | Synonyms: flu, influenza |
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| gripping | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, riveting |
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| gripsack | (noun) a small suitcase | - |
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| grisaille | (noun) chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief | - |
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| griseofulvin | (noun) a kind of penicillin (a fungicidal antibiotic with the trade name Fulvicin) produced by molds of the genus Penicillium | Synonyms: Fulvicin |
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| grisly | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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| grison | (noun) carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts | Synonyms: Galictis vittatus, Grison vittatus |
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| grissino | (noun) a long slender crusty breadstick | - |
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| grist | (noun) grain intended to be or that has been ground | - |
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| gristle | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: cartilage |
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| gristly | (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: cartilaginous, rubbery |
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| gristmill | (noun) a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain) | - |
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| grit | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, gumption, guts, moxie, sand |
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| (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: gritrock, gritstone |
| (verb) clench together | - |
| (verb) cover with a grit | - |
| gritrock | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritstone |
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| grits | (noun) coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States | Synonyms: hominy grits |
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| gritstone | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritrock |
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| gritty | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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| (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, mealy |
| grivet | (noun) white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face | Synonyms: Cercopithecus aethiops |
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| grizzle | (noun) a grey wig | - |
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| (verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: whine, yammer, yawp |
| (verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, stew |
| grizzled | (adjective) having dark hairs mixed with grey or white | - |
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| grizzly | (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
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| (noun) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America | Synonyms: grizzly bear, silver-tip, silvertip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis |