Words starting with G — 719 entries

The 719 dictionary words that begin with the letter G, in alphabetical order, each with its first definition. Accents do not affect filing: an accented initial is shelved under its base letter.

• groin9 sensesThe crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
• groom13 sensesA man who is about to marry.
• Groom2 sensesAn English surname originating as an occupation for a servant.
• grooming6 sensesCare for one's personal appearance, hygiene, and clothing.
• Groot1 senseA surname from Dutch.
• groove9 sensesA long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tire groove,…
• groovy6 sensesOf, pertaining to, or having grooves.
• gross15 sensesremarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
• Gross2 sensesA surname from Middle English, originally a nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros (“large”).
• grotesque7 sensesDistorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal, especially in a hideous way.
• ground38 sensesThe surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
• grounded5 sensesNot allowed to fly.
• grounds3 sensesBasis or justification for something.
• group19 sensesA number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
• grove8 sensesA small forest.
• Grove15 sensesA habitational surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a grove.
• Grover13 sensesA topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a grove.
• Groves2 sensesA surname.
• grow8 sensesTo become larger, to increase in magnitude.
• Grow1 senseA surname.
• growing2 sensesGrowth; increase.
• growl12 sensesA deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.
• growling3 sensesProducing a growl.
• grown2 sensesCovered by growth; overgrown.
• grown-up4 sensesAdult, physically mature.
• growth5 sensesAn increase in size, number, value, or strength.
• grub9 sensesAn insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.
• Gruber1 senseA surname.
• grudge4 sensesDeep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment.
• gruesome3 sensesRepellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.
• grumbling2 sensescomplaining
• grumpy2 sensesDissatisfied and irritable.
• grunt10 sensesA short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
• grunting2 sensesA sound of grunts.
• gt1 sensedrop (as a measurement in medical prescriptions)
• Gu2 sensesA county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
• guan1 senseAny (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina, and Pipile, of the family Cracidae,…
• Guan1 senseA surname.
• guarantee8 sensesAnything that assures a certain outcome.
• guaranteed1 senseMade certain; promised.
• guard23 sensesA person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
• Guard1 senseA surname.
• guarded4 sensesCautious; restrained.
• guardian6 sensesSomeone who guards, watches over, or protects.
• Guardian1 senseA British daily national newspaper.
• guarding3 sensesThe duty of one who guards.
• Guards2 sensesAny of several regiments in the Household Division of the British Army.
• Guatemala2 sensesA country in northern Central America. Official name: Republic of Guatemala. Capital and largest city: Guatemala City.
• guerrilla7 sensesA soldier in a small independent group, fighting against the government or regular forces by surprise raids.
• guess6 sensesTo reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
• guessing1 senseThe act of making a guess; estimate or prediction; foresight.
• guest9 sensesA recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
• Guest4 sensesA surname.
• guidance3 sensesThe act or process of guiding.
• guide15 sensesSomeone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them…
• Guide2 sensesA village in Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7025).
• guided1 senseSubject to guidance.
• guiding2 sensesGuidance.
• guido2 sensesAn Italian or (especially) Italian-American man, especially a stereotypical working-class or lower-class, usually urban-dwelling one.
• Guido1 senseA male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Guy.
• guild4 sensesA group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages, established to…
• Guild3 sensesA surname.
• Guillaume1 senseA male given name from French.
• guillotine10 sensesA device or machine with a cutting blade. A device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of…
• guilt5 sensesResponsibility for wrongdoing.
• guilty7 sensesResponsible for a dishonest act.
• guinea3 sensesSynonym of guinea fowl.
• Guinea2 sensesA country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea.
• guise5 sensesA customary way of speaking or acting; a fashion, a manner, a practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his…
• Guise1 senseA surname.
• guitar3 sensesA stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar…
• gulf10 sensesA hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
• Gulf3 sensesThe Persian Gulf, or the region surrounding it.
• gullible2 sensesEasily deceived or duped; naive, easily cheated or fooled.
• gulp6 sensesThe usual amount swallowed.
• gum16 sensesThe flesh around the teeth.
• Gum1 senseA surname.
• gun24 sensesA device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not…
• Gun1 senseA Gbe language spoken in parts of Benin and Nigeria.
• gunfire4 sensesShots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report.
• gunman2 sensesA person armed with a gun, especially a gunned evildoer.
• Gunn3 sensesA Scottish surname from Old Norse.
• gunned1 senseEquipped or bedecked with guns.
• gunner10 sensesAn artillery soldier, especially one who holds private rank.
• Gunner2 sensesSomeone connected with Arsenal Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
• gunning1 senseThe act of firing a gun.
• Gunning2 sensesA surname.
• gunny4 sensesA coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp.
• gunpoint2 sensesA location in the front of the muzzle of a gun.
• gunpowder3 sensesAn explosive mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulfur; formerly used in gunnery but now mostly used in fireworks.
• guns1 senseWell-developed muscles of the upper arm, especially the biceps and triceps.
• gunshot3 sensesThe act of discharging a firearm.
• Gunther2 sensesA male given name from German.
• Guo1 senseA surname.
• Gupta1 senseAn Indian surname.
• gurgling1 senseA gurgling sound.
• gurney1 senseA stretcher having wheeled legs.
• Gurney1 senseA surname.
• guru5 sensesIn Indian traditions: a spiritual teacher who transmits knowledge to a shishya.
• Gus3 sensesA diminutive of the male given name Augustus.
• Gustav1 senseA male given name from the Germanic languages.
• gut12 sensesThe alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
• Gut1 senseA surname from German.
• Guthrie13 sensesA surname from Irish or Scottish Gaelic.
• guts9 sensesThe entrails or contents of the abdomen.
• gutted4 sensesEviscerated.
• gutter22 sensesA prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
• Gutter1 senseA surname.
• guv2 sensesA form of address to a man, usually a stranger or a superior.
• guy14 sensesAn effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
• Guy10 sensesA male given name from the Germanic languages.
• guys1 senseUsed to address a group of people regardless of gender.
• Guys1 senseA town in Tennessee.
• Gwen1 senseA female given name.
• gym3 sensesA sports facility specialized for lifting weights, cardio machines, and other exercise (culturally differentiated from sense 1).
• gymnastics2 sensesA sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness.
• gynecologist1 senseA physician specializing in diseases of the female reproductive system.
• gypsy9 sensesAn itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.
• Gypsy5 sensesA member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).