5 Letter 14 Letter 3 Letter Countdown Words Starting With G

GAB (6) [noun] Idle chatter. | [noun] The mouth or gob. | [noun] One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines. GAD (5) [interjection] An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake. | [noun] One who roams about idly; a gadabout. | [verb] To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. | [noun] A greedy and/or stupid person. | [noun] A sharp-pointed object; a goad. GAE (4) GAG (5) [noun] A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap. | [noun] An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject. | [noun] A joke or other mischievous prank. GAL (4) [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints | [noun] Exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon | [noun] 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon") | [noun] A young woman. | [noun] A galileo (a unit of acceleration). GAM (6) [noun] A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg. | [noun] Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod. | [noun] (by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships). GAN (4) [noun] (thieves') Mouth. | [verb] To begin. | [verb] (obsolete outside Northumbria) To go. GAP (6) [noun] An opening in anything made by breaking or parting. | [noun] An opening allowing passage or entrance. | [noun] An opening that implies a breach or defect. | [noun] An elected head of a gewog in Bhutan. GAR (4) [noun] A spear. | [noun] Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws. | [noun] A garfish, Belone belone. | [verb] To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done). GAS (4) [noun] Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly. | [noun] A chemical element or compound in such a state. | [noun] A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles. | [noun] Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel. | [adjective] Comical, zany; fun, amusing GAT (4) [noun] (in old westerns) A Gatling gun. | [noun] (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol. | [verb] To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm. | [noun] A guitar | [verb] (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | [noun] An opening between sandbanks; a strait. | [noun] A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen. GAY (7) [noun] (chiefly in plural or attributive) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian. | [noun] Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower. | [noun] An ornament, a knick-knack. | [noun] The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand. GED (5) [noun] The pike or luce. | [noun] A greedy person GEE (4) [interjection] A general exclamation of surprise or frustration. | [noun] A gee-gee, a horse. | [verb] Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right. | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter G. | [noun] Vagina, vulva | [verb] To suit or fit GEL (4) [noun] A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal. | [noun] Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair. | [verb] To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc). | [noun] A girl. GEM (6) [noun] A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine. | [noun] Any precious or highly valued thing or person. | [noun] Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram. GEN (4) [noun] Information | [noun] Information about the location of a bird. | [noun] Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex. | [noun] A member of the Gen Movement, a youth expression of the international Focolare Movement. | [noun] A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy). | [verb] To genetically engineer. | [noun] A shilling. | [noun] A specific version of something in a chronological sequence. GET (4) [noun] Offspring. | [noun] Lineage. | [noun] A difficult return or block of a shot. | [noun] A git. | [noun] A Jewish writ of divorce. GEY (7) [adjective] Fairly good; considerable. | [adverb] Very. GHI (7) [noun] A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee. | [noun] Vegetable oil for cooking. GIB (6) [noun] A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place. | [noun] A castrated male cat or ferret. | [noun] A male cat; a tomcat. | [noun] Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters. | [noun] Plasterboard. GID (5) [noun] A disease of sheep caused by tapeworm. | [noun] A fiddle. GIE (4) GIG (5) [noun] A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role, especially for a musician or performer. | [noun] (by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable. | [noun] A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals. | [noun] Clipped form of gigabyte. | [noun] A playful or wanton girl; a giglot. | [verb] To engender. GIN (4) [noun] A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails. | [noun] Gin rummy. | [noun] Drawing the best card or combination of cards. | [noun] A trick; a device or instrument. | [verb] To begin. | [noun] An Aboriginal woman. | [conjunction] If. GIP (6) [noun] A servant; a gyp. | [verb] (sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately. | [verb] To take out the entrails of (herrings). GIT (4) [noun] A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying or childish person (usually a man). | [verb] To get. | [verb] To get (leave; scram). | [noun] The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in casting. GNU (4) [noun] A large antelope of the genus Connochaetes, native to Africa, having curved horns. GOA (4) GOB (6) [noun] A lump of soft or sticky material. | [noun] The mouth. | [noun] Saliva or phlegm. GOD (5) [noun] A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe. | [proper noun] The single deity of various monotheistic religions, especially the deity of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. | [proper noun] The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions. GOO (4) [noun] Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery; frequently of vague or unknown composition, slime or a bodily fluid. | [noun] Excessive, showy sentimentality. | [verb] To apply goo to something. | [noun] An example of baby talk. GOR (4) GOT (4) [verb] (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | [verb] To receive. | [verb] (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes. GOX (11) GOY (7) [noun] A non-Jew, a gentile. (See usage notes) GUL (4) GUM (6) [noun] (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth. | [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. | [noun] Any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plants. GUN (4) [noun] A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon. | [noun] A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm. | [noun] A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower). | [verb] Nonstandard spelling of going to. GUT (4) [noun] The alimentary canal, especially the intestine. | [noun] The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged | [noun] The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc. GUV (7) [noun] A form of address, usually to an unknown male or a superior. An informal form of sir. GUY (7) [noun] An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November). | [noun] A person of eccentric appearance or dress; a "fright". | [noun] A man, fellow. | [noun] A guide; a leader or conductor. GYM (9) [noun] A sports facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise. | [noun] Physical education class | [verb] To go to the gym. GYP (9) [noun] (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc). | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off. | [verb] (sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately. | [noun] A college servant, one who would attend upon a number of students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks, distinct from a college porter or bedder. | [noun] Gypsophila. | [noun] Pain or discomfort.

GABS (7) [noun] Idle chatter. | [noun] The mouth or gob. | [noun] One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines. GABY (10) GADI (6) GADS (6) [noun] One who roams about idly; a gadabout. | [verb] To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. | [noun] A greedy and/or stupid person. GAED (6) GAEN (5) GAES (5) GAFF (11) [noun] A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat. | [noun] A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe. | [noun] A trick or con. | [noun] Rough or harsh treatment; criticism. | [noun] (especially Manchester and Cockney) A place of residence. GAGA (6) [adjective] Mentally senile. | [adjective] Crazy. | [adjective] Infatuated. | [noun] A variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon. GAGE (6) [noun] Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative). | [noun] Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom. | [verb] To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn. | [noun] A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard | [noun] A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica. | [noun] A quart pot. GAGS (6) [noun] A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap. | [noun] An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject. | [noun] A joke or other mischievous prank. GAIN (5) [noun] The act of gaining; acquisition. | [noun] What is gained. | [noun] The factor by which a signal is multiplied. | [preposition] Against. | [adjective] Straight, direct; near; short. | [noun] A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam. GAIT (5) [noun] Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. | [noun] One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training. | [verb] To teach a specific gait to a horse. | [noun] A sheaf of corn. GALA (5) [noun] Pomp, show, or festivity. | [noun] A showy and festive party. | [adjective] Celebratory; festive. | [noun] A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. GALE (5) [verb] To sing; charm; enchant. | [verb] To cry; groan; croak. | [verb] (of a person) To talk. | [noun] A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale. | [noun] A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens. | [noun] A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity. GALL (5) [noun] Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver. | [noun] The gall bladder. | [noun] Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances. | [noun] A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii. GALS (5) [noun] A young woman. | [noun] A galileo (a unit of acceleration). | [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints GAMA (7) GAMB (9) GAME (7) [noun] A playful or competitive activity. | [noun] A video game. | [noun] (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession. GAMP (9) [noun] An umbrella. GAMS (7) [noun] A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg. | [noun] Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod. | [noun] (by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships). GAMY (10) [adjective] Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat). | [adjective] Plucky, spirited or gritty | [adjective] Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive GANE (5) GANG (6) [verb] To go; walk; proceed. | [noun] A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose. | [noun] A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad. | [verb] (obsolete outside Northumbria) To go. | [verb] To participate in a gangbang. | [noun] The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore. GAOL (5) [noun] A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. | [noun] Confinement in a jail. | [noun] The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days). GAPE (7) [noun] An act of gaping; a yawn. | [noun] A large opening. | [noun] A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping. GAPS (7) [noun] An opening in anything made by breaking or parting. | [noun] An opening allowing passage or entrance. | [noun] An opening that implies a breach or defect. GAPY (10) GARB (7) [noun] Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. | [noun] A type of dress or clothing. | [noun] A guise, external appearance. | [noun] A wheat sheaf. GARS (5) [noun] A spear. | [noun] Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws. | [noun] A garfish, Belone belone. GASH (8) [noun] A deep cut. | [noun] A vulva. | [noun] A woman | [adjective] Ghastly; hideous GASP (7) [noun] A short, sudden intake of breath. | [noun] : A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper). | [verb] To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock. GAST (5) GATE (5) [noun] A doorlike structure outside a house. | [noun] Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. | [noun] Movable barrier. | [noun] A way, path. GATS (5) [noun] (in old westerns) A Gatling gun. | [noun] (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol. | [verb] To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm. GAUD (6) [noun] A cheap showy trinket | [noun] Trick; jest; sport | [noun] Deceit; fraud; artifice | [verb] To sport or keep festival. GAUM (7) GAUN (5) GAUR (5) [noun] An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition. GAVE (8) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. GAWK (12) [noun] A cuckoo. | [noun] A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person. | [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. GAWP (10) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. GAYS (8) [noun] (chiefly in plural or attributive) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian. | [noun] Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower. | [noun] An ornament, a knick-knack. GAZE (14) [noun] A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. | [noun] The object gazed on. | [noun] In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed. GEAR (5) [noun] Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor. | [noun] Clothing; garments. | [noun] Goods; property; household items. GECK (11) GEDS (6) [noun] The pike or luce. | [noun] A greedy person GEED (6) [verb] Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right. | [verb] To cause an animal to move in this way. | [verb] To agree; to harmonize. GEEK (9) [noun] A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior. | [noun] A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun. | [noun] (by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers. | [noun] A look. GEES (5) [noun] A gee-gee, a horse. | [verb] Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right. | [verb] To cause an animal to move in this way. GEEZ (14) [interjection] An exclamation denoting surprise or frustration. | [noun] Informal address to a male. GELD (6) [noun] Money. | [noun] A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant. | [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). GELS (5) [noun] A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal. | [noun] Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair. | [verb] To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc). GELT (5) [noun] A lunatic. | [noun] Gilding; gilt. | [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). | [noun] Money. | [noun] Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel. GEMS (7) [noun] A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine. | [noun] Any precious or highly valued thing or person. | [noun] Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram. GENE (5) [noun] A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color. | [noun] A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus. GENS (5) [noun] A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium. | [noun] A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line. | [noun] A member of the Gen Movement, a youth expression of the international Focolare Movement. GENT (5) [noun] A gentleman. | [adjective] Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful. | [adjective] Neat; pretty; elegant | [noun] Short for gentamicin. GENU (5) [noun] Knee | [noun] A knee-like bend. GERM (7) [noun] The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore. | [noun] A pathogenic microorganism. | [noun] The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. GEST (5) GETA (5) GETS (5) [noun] Offspring. | [noun] Lineage. | [noun] A difficult return or block of a shot. GEUM (7) [noun] Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants. GHAT (8) [noun] A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place. | [noun] A mountain range. | [noun] A mountain pass. GHEE (8) [noun] A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee. | [noun] Vegetable oil for cooking. GHIS (8) GIBE (7) [noun] Alternative spelling of gybe | [noun] Alternative spelling of jibe | [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe GIBS (7) [noun] A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place. | [noun] A castrated male cat or ferret. | [noun] A male cat; a tomcat. | [noun] The internal organs of certain computer game characters after being splattered to death. GIDS (6) GIED (6) GIEN (5) GIES (5) GIFT (8) [noun] Something given to another voluntarily, without charge. | [noun] A talent or natural ability. | [noun] Something gained incidentally, without effort. GIGA (6) GIGS (6) [noun] A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role, especially for a musician or performer. | [noun] (by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable. | [noun] A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals. GILD (6) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. | [noun] A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages. GILL (5) [noun] (animal anatomy) a breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals | [noun] (of a fish) a gill slit or gill cover | [noun] One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, on the surface of which the spore-producing organs are borne | [noun] A drink measure for spirits and wine (size varies regionally but it is about one quarter of a pint) | [noun] Rivulet | [noun] A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber | [noun] A leech | [noun] A female ferret GILT (5) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. | [noun] A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding. GIMP (9) [noun] A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe. | [noun] Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire. | [noun] The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself. | [noun] A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet. | [adjective] (Scotland and N England) Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant. GINK (9) [noun] (originally United States slang) A guy, a fellow, especially a foolish, unworldly, or socially inept man. GINS (5) [noun] A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails. | [noun] Gin rummy. | [noun] Drawing the best card or combination of cards. GIPS (7) GIRD (6) [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [verb] To encircle with, or as if with a belt. | [verb] To prepare oneself for an action. | [noun] A sarcastic remark. GIRL (5) [noun] A female child, adolescent, or a young woman. | [noun] A young female animal. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young woman GIRN (5) [noun] A vocalization similar to a cat's purring. | [verb] To grimace; to snarl. | [verb] To whinge, moan, complain. GIRO (5) [noun] (in Europe) A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions. | [noun] An unemployment benefit cheque. | [verb] To transfer funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions. GIRT (5) [noun] A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts. | [verb] To gird. | [verb] To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. | [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [adjective] Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big. GIST (5) [noun] The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith. | [noun] The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action. | [noun] Resting place (especially of animals), lodging. GITS (5) [noun] The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in casting. | [noun] A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying or childish person (usually a man). GIVE (8) [noun] The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilence. | [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. GLAD (6) [verb] To make glad | [adjective] Pleased, happy, gratified. | [adjective] Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness. GLED (6) GLEE (5) [noun] Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune. | [noun] Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. | [noun] An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry. GLEG (6) GLEN (5) [noun] A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills. GLEY (8) [noun] A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen. | [verb] To be converted into this kind of soil. | [verb] To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things. GLIA (5) [noun] The network of glial cells that supports nervous system tissue. GLIB (7) [verb] To make glib. | [adjective] Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow. | [adjective] Smooth or slippery. | [noun] A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in Ireland. | [verb] To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. GLIM (7) [noun] Brightness; splendour | [noun] A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire. | [noun] An eye. GLOB (7) [noun] A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance. | [noun] A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression. | [noun] A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway. GLOM (7) [verb] To steal, to grab. | [verb] To stare. | [verb] To attach. | [noun] Short for glomerulus. GLOP (7) [verb] To stare in amazement. | [noun] Any gooey substance. | [noun] A gooey blob of some substance. GLOW (8) [noun] The state of a glowing object. | [noun] The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings. | [noun] The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face). GLUE (5) [noun] A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance. | [noun] Anything that binds two things or people together. | [noun] Birdlime. GLUG (6) [noun] The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle. | [noun] The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard. | [verb] To flow in noisy bursts. GLUM (7) [adjective] Despondent; moody; sullen | [noun] Sullenness | [verb] To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. GLUT (5) [noun] An excess, too much. | [noun] That which is swallowed. | [noun] Something that fills up an opening. GNAR (5) GNAT (5) [noun] Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera. GNAW (8) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GNUS (5) [noun] A large antelope of the genus Connochaetes, native to Africa, having curved horns. GOAD (6) [noun] A long, pointed stick used to prod animals. | [noun] That which goads or incites; a stimulus. | [verb] To prod with a goad. GOAL (5) [noun] A result that one is attempting to achieve. | [noun] In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object. | [noun] The act of placing the object into the goal. GOAS (5) GOAT (5) [noun] A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra. | [noun] A lecherous man. | [noun] A scapegoat. GOBO (7) [noun] A disc placed between a light and the illuminated object or actor in order to diffuse the glare. | [noun] A template inserted over a light source in order to control the shape of the thrown light. | [noun] A device used to shield a microphone from extraneous sounds. | [noun] The taproot of young burdock plants, eaten as a root vegetable. GOBS (7) [noun] A lump of soft or sticky material. | [noun] The mouth. | [noun] Saliva or phlegm. GOBY (10) [noun] Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker. | [noun] A gudgeon, such as Gobio gobio. GODS (6) [noun] A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe. | [noun] A deity or supreme being; a supernatural, typically immortal, being with superior powers, to which personhood is attributed. | [noun] An idol. | [noun] The occupants of the gallery of a theatre. | [verb] To idolize. GOER (5) [noun] One who, or that which, goes. | [noun] Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully. | [noun] A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity. GOES (5) [noun] The act of going. | [noun] A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game). | [noun] An attempt, a try. GOGO (6) [noun] An elasticated hair band. | [noun] Grandmother; elderly woman. GOLD (6) [noun] A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au. | [noun] A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so. | [noun] A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold. | [adjective] (of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing. GOLF (8) [noun] A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes. | [noun] The letter G in the ICAO spelling alphabet. | [verb] To play the game of golf. GONE (5) [verb] To move: | [verb] (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). | [verb] To start; to begin (an action or process). GONG (6) [noun] A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer. | [noun] A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor. | [verb] To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong. | [noun] An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. | [noun] A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi. GOOD (6) [adjective] (of people) | [adjective] (of capabilities) | [adjective] (properties and qualities) | [adverb] Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly. | [noun] The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence. | [verb] To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve. | [verb] To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise. GOOF (8) [noun] A mistake or error. | [noun] A foolish and/or silly person; a goofball. | [noun] A child molester. GOOK (9) [noun] A person of Far Eastern or Oceanian descent, especially a Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese or Korean person. | [noun] A foreigner, especially an enemy soldier in wartime. | [noun] Grime or mud. GOON (5) [noun] A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon'). | [noun] A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish. | [noun] An enforcer or fighter. | [noun] A wine flagon or cask. GOOP (7) [noun] (usually uncountable) A thick, slimy substance; goo. | [noun] A silly, stupid, or boorish person. GOOS (5) GORE (5) [noun] Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air. | [noun] Murder, bloodshed, violence. | [noun] Dirt; mud; filth. | [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [noun] A triangular piece of land where roads meet. GORP (7) [noun] A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement for use while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc. GORY (8) [adjective] Covered with blood, very bloody | [adjective] Unpleasant GOSH (8) [interjection] (minced oath) A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm. GOUT (5) [noun] An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints. | [noun] (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch. | [noun] A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae. | [noun] Taste; relish GOWD (9) GOWK (12) [noun] A cuckoo. | [noun] A fool. | [verb] To make foolish; to stupefy. GOWN (8) [noun] A loose, flowing upper garment. | [noun] A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown. | [noun] The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc. GOYS (8) [noun] A non-Jew, a gentile. (See usage notes) GRAB (7) [noun] A sudden snatch at something. | [noun] An acquisition by violent or unjust means. | [noun] A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. | [noun] A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast. GRAD (6) [noun] A unit of angle equal to 0.9 degrees, so that there are 100 gradians in a right angle. | [noun] A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. | [noun] A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school. | [noun] A type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this. GRAM (7) [noun] A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g | [noun] A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea. | [noun] The seeds of these plants. | [noun] Grandmother | [adjective] Angry | [noun] A photograph or video shared on this service. GRAN (5) [noun] (usually affectionate) a grandmother | [noun] A grandfather GRAT (5) GRAY (8) [noun] An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white. | [noun] An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. | [noun] An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head. | [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy GREE (5) GREW (8) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. | [verb] To be frightened; to shudder with fear. GREY (8) [adjective] Having a color. | [adjective] Having a particular color or kind of color. | [adjective] Having prominent colors; colorful. GRID (6) [noun] A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle. | [noun] A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire. | [noun] A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters). GRIG (6) [noun] A dwarf. | [noun] A cricket or grasshopper. | [noun] A small or young eel. | [noun] Heath or heather. | [verb] To irritate or annoy. GRIM (7) [noun] Specter, ghost, haunting spirit | [verb] To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. | [adjective] Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding | [noun] Anger, wrath. GRIN (5) [noun] A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth. | [verb] To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth. | [verb] To express by grinning. | [noun] A snare; a gin. GRIP (7) [verb] To take hold of, particularly with the hand. | [verb] To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense. | [verb] To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief. | [noun] A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand. | [noun] A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain. | [noun] The griffin. GRIT (5) [noun] A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. | [noun] Inedible particles in food. | [noun] A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats. GROG (6) [noun] (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy. | [noun] (by extension) Any alcoholic beverage. | [noun] A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage. GROT (5) [noun] A grotto. | [noun] Any unpleasant substance or material. | [noun] A miserable person. GROW (8) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. GRUB (7) [noun] An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A short, thick man; a dwarf. GRUE (5) GRUM (7) GUAN (5) [noun] Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas. GUAR (5) [noun] An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans. GUCK (11) [noun] The hybrid offspring of a goose and a duck | [noun] An unpleasant sticky substance; goo, gunk. GUDE (6) GUFF (11) [noun] Nonsensical talk or thinking. | [noun] Superfluous information. | [noun] Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks. GUID (6) GULF (8) [noun] A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin. | [noun] That which swallows; the gullet. | [noun] That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy. GULL (5) [noun] A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae. | [noun] Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora. | [noun] A cheating trick; a fraud. GULP (7) [noun] The usual amount swallowed. | [noun] The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear. | [noun] An unspecified small number of bytes, often two. GULS (5) GUMS (7) [noun] (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth. | [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. GUNK (9) [noun] Dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance | [noun] A subculture of 21st century American males, combining elements of modern gothic culture with punk rock. | [noun] A member of the gunk subculture. GUNS (5) [noun] A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon. | [noun] A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm. | [noun] A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower). GURU (5) [noun] A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher. | [noun] (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor. GUSH (8) [noun] A sudden rapid outflow. | [verb] To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. | [verb] To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume. GUST (5) [noun] A strong, abrupt rush of wind. | [noun] (by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.). | [verb] To blow in gusts. | [noun] The physiological faculty of taste. | [verb] To taste. GUTS (5) [noun] The alimentary canal, especially the intestine. | [noun] The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged | [noun] The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc. GUVS (8) GUYS (8) [noun] An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November). | [noun] A person of eccentric appearance or dress; a "fright". | [noun] A man, fellow. GYBE (10) [noun] The act of gybing. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation. | [verb] To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind. | [noun] Alternative spelling of jibe GYMS (10) [noun] A sports facility specialized for lifting weights and exercise. | [noun] Physical education class | [verb] To go to the gym. GYPS (10) [noun] (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc). | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off. | [noun] A college servant, one who would attend upon a number of students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks, distinct from a college porter or bedder. GYRE (8) [noun] A swirling vortex. | [noun] A circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current. | [noun] A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. GYRI (8) [noun] A ridge or fold on the cerebral cortex. GYRO (8) [noun] A gyroscope | [noun] A gyrocompass | [noun] An autogyro | [noun] A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce. GYVE (11) [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. | [verb] To shackle, fetter, chain.

GABBY (13) [adjective] Inclined to talk too much, especially about trivia. GABLE (8) [noun] The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches). | [noun] A cable. GADDI (8) GADID (8) [noun] Any member of the family Gadidae of fish such as cod and pollack. GADIS (7) GAFFE (12) [noun] A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public. GAFFS (12) [noun] A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat. | [noun] A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe. | [noun] A trick or con. GAGED (8) [verb] To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn. | [verb] To wager, to bet. | [verb] To bind by pledge, or security; to engage. GAGER (7) GAGES (7) [noun] Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative). | [noun] Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom. | [noun] A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica. GAILY (9) [adverb] Merrily. | [adverb] Showily. GAINS (6) [noun] The act of gaining; acquisition. | [noun] What is gained. | [noun] The factor by which a signal is multiplied. GAITS (6) [noun] Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. | [noun] One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training. | [verb] To teach a specific gait to a horse. GALAH (9) [noun] A pink and grey species of cockatoo, Eolophus roseicapilla, native to Australia. | [noun] A fool, an idiot. GALAS (6) [noun] Pomp, show, or festivity. | [noun] A showy and festive party. | [noun] A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. GALAX (13) GALEA (6) [noun] A Roman helmet. | [noun] An organ or a part of a plant that is shaped like a galea (helmet). | [noun] A mouthpart found in some species of chewing insect, which is shaped like a galea (helmet). GALES (6) [noun] A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale. | [noun] An outburst, especially of laughter. | [noun] A light breeze. GALLS (6) [noun] Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver. | [noun] The gall bladder. | [noun] Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances. GALLY (9) GALOP (8) [noun] A lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of the polka, combining a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time. | [noun] The music for a dance of this kind. GAMAS (8) GAMAY (11) [noun] Any of several varieties of red grape used for making Beaujolais and other red wines. GAMBA (10) [noun] A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba. | [noun] A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold. | [noun] The metacarpus or metatarsus of ruminants, etc. GAMBE (10) GAMBS (10) GAMED (9) [verb] To gamble. | [verb] To play card games, board games, or video games. | [verb] To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable. GAMER (8) [noun] A person who plays any kind of game. | [noun] A person whose hobby is video games. | [noun] A person who games the system. | [adjective] Willing to participate. GAMES (8) [noun] A playful or competitive activity. | [noun] A video game. | [noun] (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession. GAMEY (11) [adjective] Having the smell, taste and texture of consumed game (meat). | [adjective] Plucky, spirited or gritty | [adjective] Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive GAMIC (10) GAMIN (8) [noun] A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally), a cheeky, street-smart boy. GAMMA (10) [noun] The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ). | [noun] The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ. | [noun] A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant). GAMMY (13) [adjective] Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs). | [noun] Grandmother. | [noun] A blowjob; fellatio. GAMPS (10) [noun] An umbrella. GAMUT (8) [noun] A (normally) complete range. | [noun] All the notes in the musical scale. | [noun] All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer. GANEF (9) [noun] A thief; a rascal or scoundrel. GANEV (9) GANGS (7) [verb] To go; walk; proceed. | [noun] A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose. | [noun] A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad. GANJA (13) [noun] Marijuana, as used for smoking. GANOF (9) GAOLS (6) [noun] A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. | [noun] Confinement in a jail. | [noun] The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days). GAPED (9) [verb] To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise. | [verb] To stare in wonder. | [verb] To open wide; to display a gap. GAPER (8) [noun] One who gapes; a starer. | [noun] Any of several species of burrowing clams. | [noun] The comber, a fish of the species Serranus cabrilla. GAPES (8) [noun] An act of gaping; a yawn. | [noun] A large opening. | [noun] A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping. GAPPY (13) GARBS (8) [noun] Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. | [noun] A type of dress or clothing. | [noun] A guise, external appearance. GARNI (6) GARTH (9) [noun] A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters | [noun] A close; a yard; a croft; a garden. | [noun] A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England GASES (6) [noun] Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly. | [noun] A chemical element or compound in such a state. | [noun] A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles. GASPS (8) [noun] A short, sudden intake of breath. | [noun] : A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper). | [verb] To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock. GASSY (9) [adjective] Having the nature of, or containing, gas. | [adjective] Of food or drink: tending to cause flatulence. | [adjective] Tending to be long-winded or wordy, especially in a boastful and vain manner. GASTS (6) GATED (7) [verb] To keep something inside by means of a closed gate. | [verb] To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out. | [verb] To open a closed ion channel. GATES (6) [noun] A doorlike structure outside a house. | [noun] Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. | [noun] Movable barrier. GATOR (6) [noun] Alligator. GAUDS (7) [noun] A cheap showy trinket | [noun] Trick; jest; sport | [noun] Deceit; fraud; artifice GAUDY (10) [noun] One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. | [adjective] Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner | [adjective] Fun; merry; festive | [noun] A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations. GAUGE (7) [noun] A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard | [noun] An act of measuring. | [noun] An estimate. GAULT (6) [noun] A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks. GAUMS (8) GAUNT (6) [adjective] Lean, angular and bony | [adjective] Haggard, drawn and emaciated | [adjective] Bleak, barren and desolate GAURS (6) [noun] An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bos gaurus), of large size and an untamable disposition. GAUSS (6) [noun] The unit of magnetic field strength in CGS systems of units, equal to 0.0001 tesla. GAUZE (15) [noun] A thin fabric with a loose, open weave. | [noun] A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing. | [noun] A thin woven metal or plastic mesh. GAUZY (18) [adjective] Having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy. | [adjective] Light; giving the effect of haze. GAVEL (9) [noun] Rent. | [noun] Usury; interest on money. | [noun] An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally. | [noun] A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction. | [noun] A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. | [noun] A gable. GAVOT (9) GAWKS (13) [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. | [verb] To stare conspicuously. GAWKY (16) [noun] An awkward, ungainly person. | [adjective] Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement GAWPS (11) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. GAWSY (12) GAYAL (9) [noun] Bos frontalis, a Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle. GAYER (9) [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Happy, joyful, and lively. | [adjective] Quick, fast. | [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Festive, bright, or colourful. GAYLY (12) GAZAR (15) [noun] A silk organza, a lightweight fabric with a plain weave. GAZED (16) [verb] To stare intently or earnestly. | [verb] To stare at. GAZER (15) GAZES (15) [noun] A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. | [noun] The object gazed on. | [noun] In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed. GEARS (6) [noun] Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor. | [noun] Clothing; garments. | [noun] Goods; property; household items. GECKO (12) [noun] Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces. | [verb] To move in the manner of a gecko; to attach to a vertical or upside-down surface. GECKS (12) GEEKS (10) [noun] A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior. | [noun] A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun. | [noun] (by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers. GEEKY (13) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a geek. GEESE (6) [noun] Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks. | [noun] A female goose (sense 1). | [noun] The flesh of the goose used as food. GEEST (6) GELDS (7) [noun] Money. | [noun] A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant. | [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). GELEE (6) GELID (7) [adjective] Very cold; icy or frosty. GELTS (6) GEMMA (10) [noun] A bud; an asexual reproductive structure, as found in liverworts and hydra, able to produce new individuals from a cluster of cells. GEMMY (13) GEMOT (8) GENES (6) [noun] A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color. | [noun] A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus. GENET (6) [noun] Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail. | [noun] The fur of this mammal, or any skin dressed in imitation of it. | [noun] A group of genetically identical individuals (plants, fungi, bacteria etc.) that have grown in a given location, all originating from asexual reproduction of a single ancestor; a group of ramets. | [noun] A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet. GENIC (8) [adjective] Of, relating to, produced by, or being a gene GENIE (6) [noun] A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form. | [noun] A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container. GENII (6) [noun] Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc. | [noun] Extraordinary mental capacity. | [noun] Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process. | [noun] A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form. GENIP (8) [noun] A succulent berry with a thick rind, the fruit of plants in the genus Genipa. GENOA (6) [noun] A staysail that resembles a jib but extends aft beyond the mast. | [noun] Genoa cake GENOM (8) GENRE (6) [noun] A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks. GENRO (6) GENTS (6) [noun] A gentleman. | [noun] A men's room: a lavatory intended for use by men. | [adjective] Men's: intended for use by men. GENUA (6) [noun] Knee | [noun] A knee-like bend. GENUS (6) [noun] A rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank. | [noun] A group with common attributes. | [noun] A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph. GEODE (7) [noun] A nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral or crystal matter on the inside wall. GEOID (7) [noun] (geodesy) The shape that the surface of the oceans of the Earth would take under the influence of the Earth's gravity and rotation alone, extending also through the continents, disregarding other factors such as winds and tides; that is, a surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation. GERAH (9) GERMS (8) [noun] The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore. | [noun] A pathogenic microorganism. | [noun] The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. GERMY (11) [adjective] That carries germs. GESSO (6) [noun] A mixture of plaster of Paris and glue used to prepare a surface for painting. | [noun] A work of art done in gesso. GESTE (6) GESTS (6) GETAS (6) GETUP (8) [noun] Enthusiastic and energetic drive or ambition | [noun] A costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual. | [noun] A fight or altercation. GEUMS (8) [noun] Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants. GHAST (9) GHATS (9) [noun] A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place. | [noun] A mountain range. | [noun] A mountain pass. GHAUT (9) GHAZI (18) [noun] A hero or champion, especially as a Muslim against non-Muslims; often used as a title. GHEES (9) [noun] A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee. | [noun] Vegetable oil for cooking. GHOST (9) [noun] The spirit; the soul of man. | [noun] The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death | [noun] Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image GHOUL (9) [noun] (Muslim demonology) A demon said to feed on corpses. | [noun] A graverobber. | [noun] A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive. GHYLL (12) [noun] A ravine. GIANT (6) [noun] A mythical human of very great size. | [noun] Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology. | [noun] A very tall and large person. GIBED (9) [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe | [verb] Alternative spelling of jibe GIBER (8) GIBES (8) [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe | [verb] Alternative spelling of jibe GIDDY (11) [verb] To make dizzy or unsteady. | [verb] To reel; to whirl. | [adjective] Dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down. GIFTS (9) [noun] Something given to another voluntarily, without charge. | [noun] A talent or natural ability. | [noun] Something gained incidentally, without effort. GIGAS (7) GIGHE (10) GIGOT (7) [noun] A leg of lamb or mutton. | [noun] Short for gigot sleeve. GIGUE (7) [noun] An Irish dance, derived from the jig, used in the Partita form (Baroque Period). GILDS (7) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. GILLS (6) [noun] (animal anatomy) a breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals | [noun] (of a fish) a gill slit or gill cover | [noun] One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, on the surface of which the spore-producing organs are borne GILLY (9) GILTS (6) [noun] Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding. | [noun] Money. | [noun] A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged) GIMEL (8) GIMME (10) [noun] That which is easily obtained, or certain to occur. GIMPS (10) [noun] A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe. | [noun] Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire. | [noun] The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself. GIMPY (13) GINKS (10) [noun] (originally United States slang) A guy, a fellow, especially a foolish, unworldly, or socially inept man. GINNY (9) GIPON (8) GIPSY (11) [noun] (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc). | [noun] An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A move in contra dancing in which two dancers walk in a circle around each other while maintaining eye contact (but not touching as in a swing). (Compare whole gyp, half gyp, and gypsy meltdown, in which this step precedes a swing.) GIRDS (7) [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [verb] To encircle with, or as if with a belt. | [verb] To prepare oneself for an action. GIRLS (6) [noun] A female child, adolescent, or a young woman. | [noun] A young female animal. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young woman GIRLY (9) [noun] Girl. | [adjective] Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, sweet; unmasculine. GIRNS (6) [verb] To grimace; to snarl. | [verb] To whinge, moan, complain. | [verb] To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition. GIRON (6) GIROS (6) [noun] (in Europe) A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions. | [noun] An unemployment benefit cheque. | [verb] To transfer funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions. | [noun] A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce. GIRSH (9) GIRTH (9) [noun] A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place. | [noun] The part of an animal around which the girth fits. | [noun] One's waistline circumference, most often a large one. GIRTS (6) [noun] A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts. | [verb] To gird. | [verb] To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. GISMO (8) [noun] Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term. GISTS (6) [noun] The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith. | [noun] The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action. | [noun] Resting place (especially of animals), lodging. GIVEN (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. GIVER (9) [noun] One who gives; a donor or contributor. GIVES (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. | [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. GIZMO (17) [noun] Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term. GLACE (8) GLADE (7) [noun] An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. | [noun] An everglade. | [noun] An open space in the ice on a river or lake. GLADS (7) [verb] To make glad GLADY (10) GLAIR (6) [noun] Egg-white, especially as used in various industrial preparations. | [noun] Any viscous, slimy substance. | [noun] A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd. GLAND (7) [noun] An organ that synthesizes a substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland). | [noun] A secretory structure on the surface of an organ. | [noun] A compressable cylindrical case and its contents around a shaft where it passes through a barrier, intended to prevent the passage of a fluid past the barrier, such as: GLANS (6) [noun] The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis. | [noun] The vascular body which forms the extremity of the clitoris. | [noun] The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits. GLARE (6) [noun] An intense, blinding light. | [noun] Showy brilliance; gaudiness. | [noun] An angry or fierce stare. GLARY (9) GLASS (6) [verb] To apply fibreglass to. | [noun] An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime. | [noun] A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material. GLAZE (15) [noun] The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See glaze (transitive verb). | [noun] A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint. | [noun] A smooth edible coating applied to food. GLAZY (18) GLEAM (8) [noun] A small or indistinct shaft or stream of light. | [noun] A glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something. | [noun] Brightness or shininess; splendor. GLEAN (6) [noun] A collection made by gleaning. | [verb] To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering. | [verb] To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard). | [noun] Cleaning; afterbirth GLEBA (8) GLEBE (8) [noun] Turf; soil; ground; sod. | [noun] In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses. | [noun] A meadow, land or fields GLEDE (7) GLEDS (7) GLEED (7) GLEEK (10) GLEES (6) [noun] Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune. | [noun] Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. | [noun] An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry. GLEET (6) [noun] (except Scots) Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk. | [noun] (except Scots) Any slimy, viscous substance. | [noun] A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhoea. GLENS (6) [noun] A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills. GLEYS (9) [noun] A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen. GLIAL (6) GLIAS (6) GLIDE (7) [noun] The act of gliding. | [noun] A transitional sound, especially a semivowel. | [noun] An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact. GLIFF (12) GLIME (8) GLIMS (8) [noun] Brightness; splendour | [noun] A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire. | [noun] An eye. GLINT (6) [noun] A short flash of light. | [verb] To flash or gleam briefly. | [verb] To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. GLITZ (15) [noun] Garish, brilliant showiness. GLOAM (8) GLOAT (6) [noun] An act or instance of gloating. | [verb] To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune. | [verb] To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel. GLOBE (8) [noun] Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object. | [noun] The planet Earth. | [noun] A spherical model of Earth or any planet. GLOBS (8) [noun] A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance. | [noun] A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression. | [noun] A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway. GLOGG (8) [noun] A Scandinavian version of vin chaud or mulled wine; a hot punch made of red wine, brandy and sherry flavoured with almonds, raisins and orange peel. GLOMS (8) [verb] To steal, to grab. | [verb] To stare. | [verb] To attach. GLOOM (8) [noun] Darkness, dimness or obscurity. | [noun] A melancholic, depressing or despondent atmosphere. | [noun] Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. GLOPS (8) [verb] To stare in amazement. | [noun] Any gooey substance. | [noun] A gooey blob of some substance. GLORY (9) [noun] Great or overwhelming beauty or splendour. | [noun] Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown. | [noun] That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour. GLOSS (6) [noun] A surface shine or luster/lustre | [noun] A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance | [verb] To give a gloss or sheen to. | [noun] A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text. | [verb] To add a gloss to (a text). GLOST (6) [noun] Lead glazing used for pottery. GLOUT (6) GLOVE (9) [noun] An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers. | [noun] A baseball mitt. | [noun] The ability to catch a hit ball. GLOWS (9) [noun] The state of a glowing object. | [noun] The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings. | [noun] The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face). GLOZE (15) [noun] A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary. | [noun] Flattery. | [noun] (False) appearance. GLUED (7) [verb] To join or attach something using glue. | [verb] To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively. GLUER (6) GLUES (6) [noun] A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance. | [noun] Anything that binds two things or people together. | [noun] Birdlime. GLUEY (9) [adjective] Viscous and adhesive, as glue. GLUGS (7) [noun] The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle. | [noun] The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard. GLUME (8) [noun] A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae). GLUON (6) [noun] A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force. GLUTS (6) [noun] An excess, too much. | [noun] That which is swallowed. | [noun] Something that fills up an opening. GLYPH (14) [noun] A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea. | [noun] Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information. | [noun] A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style. GNARL (6) [noun] A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree. | [noun] Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs. | [verb] To knot or twist something. | [verb] To snarl or growl; to gnar. GNARR (6) GNARS (6) GNASH (9) [noun] A sudden snapping of the teeth. | [verb] To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger. | [verb] To grind between the teeth. GNATS (6) [noun] Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera. GNAWN (9) GNAWS (9) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GNOME (8) [noun] A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying. | [noun] (magic, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth. | [noun] (fantasy literature) One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually even smaller than dwarves and more focussed on engineering than mining. GOADS (7) [noun] A long, pointed stick used to prod animals. | [noun] That which goads or incites; a stimulus. | [verb] To prod with a goad. GOALS (6) [noun] A result that one is attempting to achieve. | [noun] In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object. | [noun] The act of placing the object into the goal. GOATS (6) [noun] A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra. | [noun] A lecherous man. | [noun] A scapegoat. GOBAN (8) GOBOS (8) [noun] A disc placed between a light and the illuminated object or actor in order to diffuse the glare. | [noun] A template inserted over a light source in order to control the shape of the thrown light. | [noun] A device used to shield a microphone from extraneous sounds. GODET (7) [noun] A drinking cup. | [noun] A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset. | [noun] A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing. GODLY (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a god | [adjective] Devoted to a god or God; devout; righteous. | [adjective] Gloriously good. GOERS (6) [noun] One who, or that which, goes. | [noun] Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully. | [noun] A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity. GOFER (9) [noun] A worker who runs errands; an errand boy. GOGOS (7) GOING (7) [verb] To move: | [verb] (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). | [verb] To start; to begin (an action or process). GOLDS (7) [noun] A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au. | [noun] A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so. | [noun] A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold. GOLEM (8) [noun] A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic. | [noun] (by extension) A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic. GOLFS (9) [verb] To play the game of golf. | [verb] To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf) GOLLY (9) [interjection] God! | [noun] A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel. | [noun] (racist) A black person. | [noun] A galosh. | [noun] (juvenile) Chewing gum. GOMBO (10) GONAD (7) [noun] A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The testicles. GONEF (9) GONER (6) [noun] Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case. GONGS (7) [noun] A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer. | [noun] A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor. | [verb] To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong. GONIA (6) GONIF (9) [noun] A thief; a rascal or scoundrel. GONOF (9) GONZO (15) [noun] Gonzo journalism or a journalist who produces such journalism. | [noun] A wild or crazy person. | [adjective] Using an unconventional, exaggerated and highly subjective style, often when the reporter takes part in the events of the story. GOODS (7) [noun] The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence. | [noun] A result that is positive in the view of the speaker. | [noun] The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc. GOODY (10) [noun] A good character in a story, often a hero. | [noun] A small amount of something good to eat. | [noun] Any small, usually free, item. GOOEY (9) [adjective] Of or relating to goo | [adjective] Soft, sticky and viscous GOOFS (9) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To engage in mischief. GOOFY (12) [adjective] Silly, quirky | [noun] One who rides with the right foot forward. | [adjective] Riding with the right foot forward. GOOKS (10) [noun] A person of Far Eastern or Oceanian descent, especially a Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese or Korean person. | [noun] A foreigner, especially an enemy soldier in wartime. | [noun] Grime or mud. GOOKY (13) GOONS (6) [noun] A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence (also known as a 'hired goon'). | [noun] A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish. | [noun] An enforcer or fighter. GOONY (9) GOOPS (8) [noun] (usually uncountable) A thick, slimy substance; goo. | [noun] A silly, stupid, or boorish person. GOOPY (11) GOOSE (6) [noun] Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks. | [noun] A female goose (sense 1). | [noun] The flesh of the goose used as food. GOOSY (9) [noun] A goose. | [noun] A foolish person; a silly. | [adjective] Characteristic of a goose; anserine GORAL (6) [noun] A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus. GORED (7) [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [verb] To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear. | [verb] To cut in a triangular form. GORES (6) [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [verb] To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear. | [noun] A triangular piece of land where roads meet. GORGE (7) GORPS (8) GORSE (6) [noun] Evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having spiny leaves and yellow flowers. GORSY (9) GOUGE (7) [noun] Senses relating to cutting tools. | [noun] A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp. | [noun] (originally United States) An act of gouging. GOURD (7) [noun] Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae). | [noun] A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita. | [noun] The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration. GOUTS (6) [noun] An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints. | [noun] (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch. | [noun] A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae. GOUTY (9) [adjective] Suffering from gout. GOWAN (9) [noun] The common daisy. | [noun] Decomposed granite. GOWDS (10) GOWKS (13) [noun] A cuckoo. | [noun] A fool. GOWNS (9) [noun] A loose, flowing upper garment. | [noun] A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown. | [noun] The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc. GOXES (13) GOYIM (11) [noun] A non-Jew, a gentile. (See usage notes) GRAAL (6) GRABS (8) [noun] A sudden snatch at something. | [noun] An acquisition by violent or unjust means. | [noun] A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. GRACE (8) [noun] Charming, pleasing qualities. | [noun] A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal. | [noun] In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules. GRADE (7) [noun] A rating. | [noun] The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score. | [noun] A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality. GRADS (7) [noun] A type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this. | [noun] A unit of angle equal to 0.9 degrees, so that there are 100 gradians in a right angle. | [noun] A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution. GRAFT (9) [noun] A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. | [noun] A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. | [noun] A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty. | [noun] A ditch, a canal. | [noun] Corruption in official life. GRAIL (6) [noun] The Holy Grail. | [noun] The object of an extended or difficult quest.http//www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grail | [noun] A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. | [noun] Small particles of earth; gravel. | [noun] One of the small feathers of a hawk. GRAIN (6) [noun] The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley. | [noun] Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa. | [noun] A single seed of grass food crops. | [noun] A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant. GRAMA (8) GRAMP (10) [noun] Grandpa, grandfather. GRAMS (8) [noun] A photograph or video shared on this service. | [noun] A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g | [noun] Grandmother | [noun] Grandmother GRANA (6) [noun] A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis. GRAND (7) [noun] (plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.) | [noun] (plural "grands") A grand piano | [adjective] Of a large size or extent; great. | [noun] A grandparent or grandchild. GRANS (6) [noun] (usually affectionate) a grandmother | [noun] A grandfather GRANT (6) [noun] The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission. | [noun] The yielding or admission of something in dispute. | [noun] The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. GRAPE (8) [noun] A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis. | [noun] A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis. | [noun] A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes. GRAPH (11) [noun] (applied mathematics) A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers. | [noun] A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m, y)\in\R^{m+1}, where y=f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m) for a given function f: \R^m\rightarrow\R. | [noun] (formally) An ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V; (less formally) a set of vertices (or nodes) together with a set of edges that connect (some of) the vertices. GRAPY (11) GRASP (8) [noun] (sometimes figurative) Grip. | [noun] Understanding. | [noun] That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability. GRASS (6) [noun] Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain. | [noun] Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses. | [noun] A lawn. GRATE (6) [noun] A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot | [noun] A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning | [verb] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars | [verb] To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater | [adjective] Serving to gratify; agreeable. | [adjective] Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big. GRAVE (9) [noun] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial | [noun] Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. | [noun] (by extension) Death, destruction. | [verb] To dig. | [noun] A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`). | [noun] A count, prefect, or person holding office. | [verb] To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose. GRAVY (12) [noun] A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked. | [noun] A type of gravy. | [noun] (Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta. GRAYS (9) [noun] An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white. | [noun] An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. | [noun] An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head. GRAZE (15) [noun] The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing. | [noun] A light abrasion; a slight scratch. | [noun] The act of animals feeding from pasture. GREAT (6) [noun] A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim. | [noun] The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division. | [noun] (in combinations such as "two-greats", "three-greats" etc.) An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships. GREBE (8) [noun] Any of several waterbirds in the cosmopolitan family Podicipedidae. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes. GREED (7) [noun] A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions. | [verb] To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire. GREEK (10) [noun] An inhabitant, resident, or person of descent from Greece. | [noun] Unintelligible speech or text, such as foreign speech or text, or regarding subjects the listener is not familiar with, such as mathematics or technical jargon; or statements that the listener does not understand or agree with. | [noun] A member of a college fraternity or sorority, which are characterised by being named after Greek letters. (See also Greek system.) GREEN (6) [adjective] Having green as its color. | [adjective] (of people) Sickly, unwell. | [adjective] Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen. | [noun] The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters. | [verb] To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. GREES (6) GREET (6) [verb] To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or over the phone/internet | [verb] To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy) | [verb] To accost; to address. | [adjective] (obsolete outside Scotland) Great. | [noun] Mourning, weeping, lamentation. GREGO (7) GREYS (9) [noun] An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white. | [noun] An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. | [noun] An extraterrestrial humanoid with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head. GRIDE (7) GRIDS (7) [noun] A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle. | [noun] A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire. | [noun] A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters). GRIEF (9) [noun] Suffering, hardship. | [noun] Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. | [noun] Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial. GRIFF (12) [noun] Griffin, (white) newcomer | [noun] Grasp; reach | [noun] An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods. | [noun] Marijuana. GRIFT (9) [noun] A confidence game or swindle. | [verb] To obtain illegally, as by con game. | [verb] To obtain money illegally. GRIGS (7) [noun] A dwarf. | [noun] A cricket or grasshopper. | [noun] A small or young eel. GRILL (6) [noun] A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack. | [noun] On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it. | [noun] A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English | [verb] To make angry; provoke; incite. | [noun] Harm. GRIME (8) [noun] Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove. | [noun] A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop. | [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRIMY (11) [adjective] Stained or covered with grime. | [adjective] From the urban musical genre called grime. GRIND (7) [noun] The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. | [noun] Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground. | [noun] A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans. | [noun] A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands. GRINS (6) [noun] A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth. | [verb] To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth. | [verb] To express by grinning. GRIOT (6) [noun] A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet. | [noun] A Haitian dish of fried pork. GRIPE (8) [noun] A complaint, often a petty or trivial one. | [noun] A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems. | [noun] Grasp; clutch; grip GRIPS (8) [verb] To take hold of, particularly with the hand. | [verb] To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense. | [verb] To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief. GRIPT (8) GRIPY (11) GRIST (6) [noun] Grain that is to be ground in a mill. | [noun] A group of bees. | [noun] Supply; provision. GRITH (9) GRITS (6) [noun] (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge. | [verb] Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger. GROAN (6) [noun] A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief. | [noun] A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration, disapproval, or ecstasy. | [noun] (of an object) A low creaking sound from applied pressure or weight. GROAT (6) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Hulled grain. | [noun] Any of various old coins of England and Scotland. | [noun] A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins. GROGS (7) [noun] (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy. | [noun] (by extension) Any alcoholic beverage. | [noun] A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage. GROIN (6) [noun] The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region. | [noun] The area adjoining this fold or depression. | [noun] The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults | [verb] To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur. | [noun] An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater. GROOM (8) [noun] A man who is about to marry. | [noun] A person who cares for horses. | [noun] One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department. GROPE (8) [noun] An act of groping, especially sexually. | [noun] An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel | [verb] To feel with or use the hands; to handle. GROSS (6) [noun] Twelve dozen = 144. | [noun] The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net. | [noun] The bulk, the mass, the masses. GROSZ (15) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Polish zloty. GROTS (6) [noun] A grotto. | [noun] Any unpleasant substance or material. | [noun] A miserable person. GROUP (8) [noun] A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. | [noun] A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse. | [noun] An effective divisor on a curve. GROUT (6) [noun] A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry. | [noun] Coarse meal; groats. | [noun] (typically used in the plural) Dregs, sediment. GROVE (9) [noun] A small forest. | [noun] An orchard of fruit trees. | [noun] (Druidism) A place of worship. GROWL (9) [noun] A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal. | [noun] (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a person's stomach when hungry. | [noun] (by extension) An aggressive grumbling. GROWN (9) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. GROWS (9) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. GRUBS (8) [noun] An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A short, thick man; a dwarf. GRUEL (6) [noun] A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill. | [verb] To exhaust; use up; disable; to punish. GRUES (6) GRUFF (12) [verb] To speak gruffly. | [adjective] Having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature. | [adjective] Hoarse-voiced. GRUME (8) [noun] A thick semisolid | [noun] A clot (of blood) GRUMP (10) [noun] A habitually grumpy or complaining person. | [noun] A grumpy mood. | [verb] To complain. GRUNT (6) [noun] A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak. | [noun] The snorting cry of a pig. | [noun] Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae. GUACO (8) GUANO (6) [noun] Dung from a sea bird or from a bat. | [noun] A variety of seabird. GUANS (6) [noun] Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas. GUARD (7) [noun] A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something. | [noun] A garda; a police officer. | [noun] A squad responsible for protecting something. GUARS (6) [noun] An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans. GUAVA (9) [noun] A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava. | [noun] Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color. | [noun] A medium reddish-pink colour, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink). GUCKS (12) GUDES (7) GUESS (6) [verb] To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion. | [verb] To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly. | [verb] To suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility). | [noun] A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support. GUEST (6) [noun] A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another. | [noun] A patron or customer in a hotel etc. | [noun] An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast. GUFFS (12) [noun] Nonsensical talk or thinking. | [noun] Superfluous information. | [noun] Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks. GUIDE (7) [noun] Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation. | [noun] A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. | [noun] A sign that guides people; guidepost. | [verb] To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. GUIDS (7) GUILD (7) [noun] A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages. | [noun] A corporation. | [noun] A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits. GUILE (6) [noun] Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception. | [noun] Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty. | [verb] To deceive, beguile, bewile. GUILT (6) [noun] Responsibility for wrongdoing. | [noun] The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings. | [noun] The regret of having done wrong. | [verb] To commit offenses; act criminally. GUIRO (6) [noun] A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound. | [noun] A genre of traditional Cuban music, used in santería rituals. | [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a gourd surrounded by a net of beads. GUISE (6) [noun] Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.) | [noun] External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape. | [noun] Misleading appearance; cover, cloak. GULAG (7) [noun] A prison camp. | [noun] The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period. | [verb] To force into this prison or a similar system. GULAR (6) [noun] A plate or scale in the throat region of the body of a fish or reptile (especially a snake). | [adjective] Particularly of an animal: of, pertaining to, or located at the gula or the throat. | [noun] Ficus racemosa, a species of plant native to India, southeast Asia, and Australia. GULCH (11) [noun] A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully. | [noun] An act of gulching or gulping. | [noun] A glutton. GULES (6) [noun] The throat; the gullet. | [noun] Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines. | [adjective] In blazon, of the colour red. GULFS (9) [noun] A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin. | [noun] That which swallows; the gullet. | [noun] That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy. GULFY (12) GULLS (6) [noun] A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae. | [noun] Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora. | [noun] A cheating trick; a fraud. GULLY (9) [noun] A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside. | [noun] A small valley. | [noun] A drop kerb. | [noun] (northern UK) A large knife. GULPS (8) [noun] The usual amount swallowed. | [noun] The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear. | [noun] An unspecified small number of bytes, often two. GULPY (11) GUMBO (10) [noun] A soup or stew made with okra. | [noun] A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy. | [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. GUMMA (10) [noun] A soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis. GUMMY (13) [noun] A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth. | [adjective] Showing the gums. | [noun] A species of shark, Mustelus antarcticus, endemic to southern and south-eastern Australia, the meat of which is sold as flake. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A gummi candy. GUNKS (10) GUNKY (13) [adjective] Greasy, messy or dirty. GUNNY (9) [noun] A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp. | [noun] A gunny sack. | [noun] A gunnery sergeant. GUPPY (13) [noun] A tiny freshwater fish, Poecilia reticulata, popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males. | [noun] By extension, any tiny fish. | [noun] A tube holding paintballs before they are loaded into the gun. GURGE (7) GURRY (9) [noun] A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time. | [noun] The time interval indicated by striking the gurry. Originally, this was twenty-two and a half minutes, but later, under British influence, changed to an hour. | [noun] A small fort. | [noun] Fishing offal GURSH (9) GURUS (6) [noun] A Hindu or Sikh spiritual teacher. | [noun] (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor. GUSHY (12) [adjective] Gushing; effusive and often emotional. | [adjective] Tending to gush, to produce a large flow of liquid. GUSSY (9) [verb] To dress up or decorate in a showy way GUSTO (6) [noun] Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor. GUSTS (6) [noun] A strong, abrupt rush of wind. | [noun] (by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.). | [verb] To blow in gusts. GUSTY (9) [adjective] (of wind) Blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous. | [adjective] (by extension, metaphoric) Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression | [adjective] (metaphoric) Bombastic, verbose. | [adjective] With gusto GUTSY (9) [adjective] Marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; having guts | [adjective] Not showing due respect GUTTA (6) GUTTY (9) [adjective] Charged or sprinkled with drops. | [noun] One who works in a slaughterhouse cutting out the internal organs. | [adjective] Gutsy; brave. | [noun] An urchin or delinquent. GUYED (10) [adjective] Fitted with or attached to a guy. | [adjective] Fitted to serve as a guy. | [verb] To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November. GUYOT (9) [noun] A flat-topped seamount. GYBED (12) [verb] To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind. | [verb] Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other. | [verb] Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel. GYBES (11) [noun] The act of gybing. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation. | [noun] Alternative spelling of jibe GYPSY (14) [noun] (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc). | [adjective] (sometimes offensive) Of or belonging to the Romani people or one of it sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichel, etc). | [noun] An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny. GYRAL (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a gyrus | [adjective] Moving circularly or spirally; gyratory; whirling. GYRED (10) [verb] To whirl GYRES (9) [noun] A swirling vortex. | [noun] A circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current. | [noun] A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. GYRON (9) [noun] A triangular form having an angle at the fess point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon. GYROS (9) [noun] A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce. | [noun] A gyroscope | [noun] A gyrocompass | [noun] A gyroscope GYRUS (9) [noun] A ridge or fold on the cerebral cortex. GYVED (13) GYVES (12) [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.

GABBED (12) [verb] To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie. | [verb] To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects. | [verb] To speak or tell falsely. GABBER (11) [noun] A liar; a deceiver. | [noun] One who is addicted to idle talk. | [noun] A subgenre of hardcore techno characterised by an intense, distorted kick sound and controversial lyrics or samples. GABBLE (11) [noun] Confused or unintelligible speech. | [verb] To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning. | [verb] To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity. GABBRO (11) [noun] Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite. GABIES (9) GABION (9) [noun] A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag). | [noun] A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride. | [noun] A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks. GABLED (10) GABLES (9) [noun] The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches). | [noun] A cable. GABOON (9) [noun] A receptacle for spit; a spittoon, a spitbox; a spit bucket. GADDED (10) [verb] To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. GADDER (9) GADDIS (9) GADFLY (14) [noun] Any dipterous insect of the family Oestridae, commonly known as botflies. | [noun] A horsefly: any of various species of fly, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals and sucking their blood. | [noun] One who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation by proving an irritant. GADGET (9) [noun] A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey. | [noun] Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated. | [noun] Any consumer electronics product. GADIDS (9) [noun] Any member of the family Gadidae of fish such as cod and pollack. GADOID (9) [noun] Any fish of the family Gadidae | [adjective] Of or pertaining to cod or to the Gadidae family of related fish. GAEING (8) GAFFED (14) [verb] To use a gaff, especially to land a fish. | [verb] To cheat or hoax. | [verb] To gamble. GAFFER (13) [noun] A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production. | [noun] A glassblower. | [noun] An old man. GAFFES (13) [noun] A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public. GAGAKU (12) GAGERS (8) GAGGED (10) [verb] To experience the vomiting reflex. | [verb] To cause to heave with nausea. | [verb] To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth. GAGGER (9) GAGGLE (9) [noun] (collective) A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water. | [noun] (by extension) Any group or gathering of related things. | [verb] To make a noise like a goose; to cackle. GAGING (9) [verb] To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn. | [verb] To wager, to bet. | [verb] To bind by pledge, or security; to engage. GAGMAN (10) GAGMEN (10) GAIETY (10) [noun] The state of being happy or merry. | [noun] Merrymaking or festivity. GAIJIN (14) [noun] (from the perspective of a Japanese person) A non-Japanese person. GAINED (8) [verb] To acquire possession of. | [verb] To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress. | [verb] To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition. GAINER (7) GAINLY (10) [adjective] Proper; suitable; becoming. | [adjective] Ready to help; kindly; gracious. | [adjective] (of conduct) Graceful; tactful GAINST (7) [preposition] Against GAITED (8) GAITER (7) [noun] A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep. | [noun] A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe. | [noun] Part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop. GALAGO (8) [noun] Any of several species of small, nocturnal and arboreal African primates, of the genus Galago, with a catlike head and very large, translucent eyes. GALAHS (10) [noun] A pink and grey species of cockatoo, Eolophus roseicapilla, native to Australia. | [noun] A fool, an idiot. GALAXY (17) [noun] The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth. | [noun] Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe. | [noun] Any print or pattern reminiscent of a galaxy, generally consisting of blending, semiopaque patches of vibrant color on a dark background. GALEAE (7) [noun] A Roman helmet. | [noun] An organ or a part of a plant that is shaped like a galea (helmet). | [noun] A mouthpart found in some species of chewing insect, which is shaped like a galea (helmet). GALEAS (7) [noun] A type of rowable vessel of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to a galley but larger, and normally equipped with sails. GALENA (7) [noun] A mineral, lead sulphide (PbS), mined as an ore for lead. | [noun] A remedy or antidote for poison; theriac. GALERE (7) GALIOT (7) [noun] A light galley. GALLED (8) [verb] To bother or trouble. | [verb] To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury. | [verb] To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin. GALLET (7) GALLEY (10) [noun] A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually referring to rowed warships used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era. | [noun] A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure. | [noun] One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war. GALLIC (9) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or derived from galls. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to gallic acid or its derivatives. | [adjective] Relating to, or containing, gallium. GALLON (7) [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints | [noun] Exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon | [noun] 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon") GALLOP (9) [noun] The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously. | [noun] An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop. | [verb] (of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop. GALLUS (7) GALOOT (7) [noun] A clumsy or uncouth person. GALOPS (9) [noun] A lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of the polka, combining a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time. | [noun] The music for a dance of this kind. GALORE (7) [noun] An abundance; plenty. | [adjective] In abundance. GALOSH (10) [noun] A waterproof overshoe used to provide protection from rain or snow. | [noun] A waterproof rubber boot, intended to be worn in wet or muddy conditions. | [verb] To walk while wearing, or as if wearing, galoshes; to splash about. GALYAC (12) GALYAK (14) GAMAYS (12) [noun] Any of several varieties of red grape used for making Beaujolais and other red wines. GAMBAS (11) [noun] A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba. | [noun] A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold. GAMBES (11) GAMBIA (11) GAMBIR (11) [noun] Uncaria gambir, a plant from Indonesia. | [noun] An astringent substance prepared from the leaves of the plant, used in tanning and dyeing. GAMBIT (11) [noun] An opening in chess, in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage. | [noun] Any ploy or stratagem. | [noun] A remark intended to open a conversation. GAMBLE (11) [noun] A bet or wager. | [noun] A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain. | [noun] A risky venture. GAMBOL (11) [noun] An instance of running or skipping about playfully. | [noun] An instance of more general frisking or frolicking. | [verb] To move about playfully; to frolic. GAMELY (12) [adjective] Sportive; lively; joyful. | [adjective] (hunting, fishing, etc.) Of or pertaining to game. | [adverb] In a game or plucky manner; in a willing and spirited fashion. GAMERS (9) [noun] A person who plays any kind of game. | [noun] A person whose hobby is video games. | [noun] A person who games the system. GAMEST (9) [adjective] Willing to participate. | [adjective] (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely. | [adjective] Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above. GAMETE (9) [noun] A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes. GAMIER (9) GAMILY (12) GAMINE (9) [noun] A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl. | [noun] A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman. | [adjective] (of a girl) Having a boyish, mischievous charm; tomboyish. GAMING (10) [verb] To gamble. | [verb] To play card games, board games, or video games. | [verb] To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable. GAMINS (9) [noun] A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally), a cheeky, street-smart boy. GAMMAS (11) [noun] The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ). | [noun] The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ. | [noun] A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant). GAMMED (12) GAMMER (11) [noun] An old woman. GAMMON (11) [noun] A cut of quick-cured pork leg. | [verb] To cure bacon by salting. | [noun] A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone. | [noun] A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning). | [noun] Chatter, ridiculous nonsense. | [noun] A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively. GAMUTS (9) [noun] A (normally) complete range. | [noun] All the notes in the musical scale. | [noun] All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer. GANDER (8) [noun] A male goose. | [noun] A fool, simpleton. | [noun] (used only with “have”, “get” and “take”) A glance, look. GANEFS (10) [noun] A thief; a rascal or scoundrel. GANEVS (10) GANGED (9) [verb] To go; walk; proceed. | [verb] To attach similar items together to form a larger unit. | [verb] To participate in a gangbang. GANGER (8) [noun] One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker. | [noun] A horse that goes quickly. | [noun] One who oversees a gang of workmen. GANGLY (11) [adjective] Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness. GANGUE (8) [noun] The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore. GANJAH (17) GANJAS (14) GANNET (7) [noun] Any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family Sulidae. They have black and white bodies and long pointed wings, and hunt for fish by plunge diving and pursuing their prey underwater. | [noun] A voracious eater; a glutton. GANOFS (10) GANOID (8) [noun] One of the Ganoidei, a disused taxonomic grouping of fishes, including the bowfin, gars, and sturgeons. | [adjective] Having a smooth, shining surface, as if polished or enameled: specifically applied to those scales or plates of fishes which are generally of an angular form and composed of a bony or hard horny tissue overlaid with enamel. | [adjective] Having ganoid scales or plates, as a fish; specifically, of or pertaining to the Ganoidei. GANTRY (10) [noun] A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something. | [noun] A supporting framework for a barrel. | [noun] A gantry crane or gantry scaffold. GAOLED (8) [verb] To imprison. GAOLER (7) [noun] One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison. GAPERS (9) [noun] One who gapes; a starer. | [noun] Any of several species of burrowing clams. | [noun] The comber, a fish of the species Serranus cabrilla. GAPING (10) [verb] To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise. | [verb] To stare in wonder. | [verb] To open wide; to display a gap. | [noun] The act of one who gapes. GAPPED (12) GARAGE (8) [noun] A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items. | [noun] (20th century) A place where cars are serviced and repaired. | [noun] A petrol filling station. GARBED (10) [verb] To dress in garb. GARBLE (9) [noun] Confused or unintelligible speech. | [noun] Refuse; rubbish. | [noun] Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings. GARCON (9) [noun] A male waiter (especially at a French restaurant). GARDEN (8) [noun] An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. | [noun] The grounds at the front or back of a house. | [noun] The twentieth Lenormand card. GARGET (8) [noun] The throat. | [noun] An inflammation on a cow's or sheep's udder. | [noun] A distemper in pigs accompanied by staggering and loss of appetite. GARGLE (8) [noun] A liquid used for gargling | [noun] The sound of gargling | [noun] Lager, drink | [noun] A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters. GARISH (10) [adjective] Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste. GARLIC (9) [noun] A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking. | [verb] To flavour with garlic GARNER (7) [noun] A granary; a store of grain. | [noun] An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something. | [verb] To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary. GARNET (7) [noun] A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives. | [noun] A dark red color, like that of the gemstone. | [adjective] Of a dark red colour. | [noun] A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out. | [verb] To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused. GAROTE (7) GARRED (8) GARRET (7) [noun] An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house. GARRON (7) [noun] A small and usually disdained type of horse, typically bred in Scotland and Ireland. GARTER (7) [noun] A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking. | [noun] A bendlet. | [verb] To fasten with a garter GARTHS (10) [noun] A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters | [noun] A close; a yard; a croft; a garden. | [noun] A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England GARVEY (13) GASBAG (10) [noun] A bag or bladder to hold a reservoir of gas, as in a hot-air balloon. | [noun] A person who is overly garrulous or prone to making empty, unsupportable statements; a windbag. | [verb] To speak foolishly, pompously, or at length; to blather. GASCON (9) GASHED (11) [verb] To make a deep, long cut; to slash. | [adjective] Having gashes; slashed. GASHER (10) GASHES (10) [noun] A deep cut. | [noun] A vulva. | [noun] A woman GASIFY (13) [verb] To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes. GASKET (11) [noun] A length of rope used for reefing a sail, or holding a stowed sail in place. | [noun] Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression. | [noun] A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration. GASKIN (11) [noun] (in the plural) Trousers, hose. | [noun] Part of the hind leg of a horse, between the stifle and the hock. | [noun] A gasket. GASLIT (7) [verb] To manipulate (someone) psychologically such that they question their own memory, perception, and sanity, thereby evoking in them cognitive dissonance and low self-esteem. | [adjective] Illuminated by burning gas. GASMAN (9) [noun] A worker for a company that supplies gas (in the sense of the gaseous fuel), especially one who visits premises to read the meter, test appliances etc. | [noun] A man employed in the manufacture of gas. | [noun] The man who controls the lights of the stage. GASMEN (9) [noun] A worker for a company that supplies gas (in the sense of the gaseous fuel), especially one who visits premises to read the meter, test appliances etc. | [noun] A man employed in the manufacture of gas. | [noun] The man who controls the lights of the stage. GASPED (10) [verb] To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock. | [verb] To breathe laboriously or convulsively. | [verb] To speak in a breathless manner. GASPER (9) [noun] Agent noun of gasp; a person or animal that gasps. | [noun] A cigarette. | [noun] (BDSM) One who is aroused by asphyxiation. GASSED (8) [verb] To kill with poisonous gas. | [verb] To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter. | [verb] To impose upon by talking boastfully. GASSER (7) [adjective] Comical, zany; fun, amusing | [noun] One who gasses, or poisons with gas. | [noun] Something highly entertaining or remarkable. GASSES (7) [noun] Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly. | [noun] A chemical element or compound in such a state. | [noun] A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles. GASTED (8) GASTER (7) GATEAU (7) [noun] A rich, usually iced, cake. | [noun] A dish of minced meat made up like a pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould. GATHER (10) [noun] A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. | [noun] The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. | [noun] The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb). GATING (8) [verb] To keep something inside by means of a closed gate. | [verb] To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out. | [verb] To open a closed ion channel. GATORS (7) [noun] Alligator. GAUCHE (12) [adjective] Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling. | [adjective] Skewed, not plane. | [adjective] Describing a torsion angle of 60°. GAUCHO (12) [noun] A cowboy of the South American pampas. GAUGED (9) [verb] To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of. | [verb] To estimate. | [verb] To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of. GAUGER (8) GAUGES (8) [noun] A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard | [noun] An act of measuring. | [noun] An estimate. GAULTS (7) [noun] A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks. GAUMED (10) GAUZES (16) [noun] A thin fabric with a loose, open weave. | [noun] A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing. | [noun] A thin woven metal or plastic mesh. GAVAGE (11) [noun] A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras | [noun] A process of force-feeding cattle for veal | [noun] Feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach GAVELS (10) [noun] Rent. | [noun] Usury; interest on money. | [noun] An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally. GAVIAL (10) [noun] The crocodilian Gavialis gangeticus; any species of the family Gavialidae. GAVOTS (10) GAWKED (15) [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. | [verb] To stare conspicuously. GAWKER (14) GAWPED (13) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. GAWPER (12) GAWSIE (10) GAYALS (10) [noun] Bos frontalis, a Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle. GAYEST (10) [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Happy, joyful, and lively. | [adjective] Quick, fast. | [adjective] (possibly obsolete) Festive, bright, or colourful. GAYETY (13) [noun] The state of being happy or merry. | [noun] Merrymaking or festivity. GAZABO (18) GAZARS (16) GAZEBO (18) [noun] A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn. GAZERS (16) GAZING (17) [verb] To stare intently or earnestly. | [verb] To stare at. | [noun] The act by which somebody gazes. GAZUMP (20) [noun] The act of gazumping. | [verb] To swindle; to extort. | [verb] To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one. | [noun] An automobile. GEARED (8) [verb] To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio. | [verb] To be in, or come into, gear. | [verb] To dress; to put gear on; to harness. GECKED (14) GECKOS (13) [noun] Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces. | [verb] To move in the manner of a gecko; to attach to a vertical or upside-down surface. GEEGAW (11) [noun] A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration. GEEING (8) [verb] Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right. | [verb] To cause an animal to move in this way. | [verb] To agree; to harmonize. GEESTS (7) GEEZER (16) [noun] (dated in US) A male person. | [noun] (chiefly Cockney) Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy. | [noun] Term of address for a male. GEISHA (10) [noun] A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy. GELADA (8) [noun] A species of Old World monkey, Theropithecus gelada, distinguished from baboons by the bright patch of skin on their chests. GELANT (7) GELATE (7) GELATI (7) [noun] Gelato, Italian style ice-cream; a serving of gelato, often in a cone. | [noun] An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form. GELATO (7) [noun] An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form. GELDED (9) [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). | [verb] To deprive of anything essential; to weaken. | [adjective] Castrated. GELDER (8) GELEES (7) GELLED (8) [verb] To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc). | [verb] To become a gel. | [verb] To develop a rapport. GEMMAE (11) [noun] A bud; an asexual reproductive structure, as found in liverworts and hydra, able to produce new individuals from a cluster of cells. GEMMED (12) [verb] To adorn with, or as if with, gems. GEMOTE (9) GEMOTS (9) GENDER (8) [noun] Class; kind. | [noun] (grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate. | [noun] (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species). | [verb] To engender. GENERA (7) [noun] A rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank. | [noun] A group with common attributes. | [noun] A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph. GENETS (7) [noun] Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail. | [noun] The fur of this mammal, or any skin dressed in imitation of it. | [noun] A group of genetically identical individuals (plants, fungi, bacteria etc.) that have grown in a given location, all originating from asexual reproduction of a single ancestor; a group of ramets. GENEVA (10) GENIAL (7) [adjective] Friendly and cheerful. | [adjective] (especially of weather) Pleasantly mild and warm. | [adjective] Marked by genius. | [adjective] Relating to the chin; genian. GENIES (7) [noun] A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form. | [noun] A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container. GENIPS (9) [noun] A succulent berry with a thick rind, the fruit of plants in the genus Genipa. GENIUS (7) [noun] Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc. | [noun] Extraordinary mental capacity. | [noun] Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process. GENOAS (7) [noun] A staysail that resembles a jib but extends aft beyond the mast. | [noun] Genoa cake GENOME (9) [noun] The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism. GENOMS (9) GENRES (7) [noun] A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks. GENROS (7) GENTES (7) [noun] A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium. | [noun] A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line. GENTIL (7) GENTLE (7) [noun] A person of high birth. | [noun] A maggot used as bait by anglers. | [noun] A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil. GENTLY (10) [adverb] In a gentle manner GENTOO (7) GENTRY (10) [noun] Birth; condition; rank by birth. | [noun] Courtesy; civility; complaisance. | [noun] People of education and good breeding. GEODES (8) [noun] A nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral or crystal matter on the inside wall. GEODIC (10) GEOIDS (8) GERAHS (10) GERBIL (9) [noun] One of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus and certain other genera in subfamily Gerbillinae, with leaping powers resembling the jerboa, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe. | [verb] To rotate inside a monowheel or similar apparatus due to sudden acceleration or braking. | [verb] To insert a small animal into one's rectum (a sexual practice in urban myth). GERENT (7) GERMAN (9) [noun] A near relative. | [adjective] Having the same mother and father; a full (brother or sister). | [adjective] Being born to one’s blood aunt or uncle, a first (cousin). | [noun] An elaborate round dance, often with a waltz movement. GERMEN (9) GERUND (8) [noun] (grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some modern texts such as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language) | [noun] (grammar) In some languages such as Dutch, Italian or Russian, a verbal form similar to a present participle, but functioning as an adverb to form adverbial phrases or continuous tense. These constructions have various names besides gerund, depending on the language, such as conjunctive participles, active participles, adverbial participles, transgressives, etc. GESTES (7) GESTIC (9) GETTER (7) [noun] One who gets. | [noun] A function used to retrieve the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the setter. | [noun] A material which is included in a vacuum system or device for removing gas by sorption. GETUPS (9) [noun] Enthusiastic and energetic drive or ambition | [noun] A costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual. | [noun] A fight or altercation. GEWGAW (14) [noun] A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration. | [adjective] Showy; unreal; pretentious. GEYSER (10) [noun] A boiling natural spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam. | [noun] An instantaneous, and often dangerous, hot water heater. | [noun] A domestic water boiler. GHARRI (10) GHARRY (13) [noun] A wheeled cart or carriage (usually horsedrawn), used especially in Myanmar. | [noun] A jeep or small truck for conveying troops. GHAUTS (10) GHAZIS (19) [noun] A hero or champion, especially as a Muslim against non-Muslims; often used as a title. GHERAO (10) [noun] A protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc. until demands are met. | [verb] To surround for this purpose. GHETTO (10) [noun] An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) | [noun] An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race. | [noun] An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. GHIBLI (12) [noun] (Libya) sirocco GHOSTS (10) [noun] The spirit; the soul of man. | [noun] The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death | [noun] Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image GHOSTY (13) GHOULS (10) [noun] (Muslim demonology) A demon said to feed on corpses. | [noun] A graverobber. | [noun] A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive. GHYLLS (13) [noun] A ravine. GIANTS (7) [noun] A mythical human of very great size. | [noun] Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology. | [noun] A very tall and large person. GIAOUR (7) [noun] A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians. GIBBED (12) [verb] To fasten in place with a gib. | [verb] To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs. | [verb] To install plasterboard. GIBBER (11) [noun] Gibberish, unintelligible speech. | [verb] To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently. | [noun] A boulder, a stone; a mass of stone. | [noun] A balky horse. GIBBET (11) [noun] An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display. | [noun] The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib. | [noun] A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal. GIBBON (11) [noun] A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch. GIBERS (9) GIBING (10) [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe | [verb] Alternative spelling of jibe | [noun] A gibe. GIBLET (9) [noun] (usually in the plural) the edible viscera of a bird GIBSON (9) GIDDAP (11) [interjection] (directed at a horse) Move on!, go faster! GIEING (8) GIFTED (11) [verb] To give as a gift or donation. | [verb] To give away, to concede easily. | [adjective] Endowed with special, in particular intellectual, abilities. GIGGED (10) [verb] To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear. | [verb] To engage in musical performances. | [verb] To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending. GIGGLE (9) [noun] A high-pitched, silly laugh. | [noun] Fun; an amusing episode. | [verb] To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way. GIGGLY (12) [adjective] Prone to giggling. GIGLET (8) GIGLOT (8) GIGOLO (8) [noun] A man who has a sexual relationship with a woman from whom he receives payment. | [noun] A hired escort or dancing partner for a woman. GIGOTS (8) [noun] A leg of lamb or mutton. | [noun] Short for gigot sleeve. GIGUES (8) [noun] An Irish dance, derived from the jig, used in the Partita form (Baroque Period). GILDED (9) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. GILDER (8) GILLED (8) [adjective] Having gills GILLER (7) GILLIE (7) [noun] A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief. | [noun] A fishing and hunting guide; a man or boy who attends to a person who is fishing or hunting, especially in Scotland. | [verb] To be a gillie, a fishing or hunting guide, for (someone). | [noun] A gill of an alcoholic drink. GIMBAL (11) [noun] A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped. | [verb] To suspend using a gimbal or gimbals. | [verb] To move a reaction engine about on a gimbal so as to obtain pitching and yawing correction moments. GIMELS (9) GIMLET (9) [noun] A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes. | [noun] A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice. | [verb] To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet). GIMMAL (11) GIMMES (11) [noun] That which is easily obtained, or certain to occur. GIMMIE (11) GIMPED (12) [verb] (of yarn, cord, thread, etc.) To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped. | [verb] To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves. | [verb] To limp; to hobble. GINGAL (8) GINGER (8) [noun] The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant and acarminative. | [noun] The plant that produces this rhizome. | [noun] Other species belonging to the same family, Zingiberaceae, especially those of the genus Zingiber | [verb] To move gingerly, very careful and cautious. | [noun] A homosexual. GINGKO (12) [noun] Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds. | [noun] The seed of the ginkgo tree. GINKGO (12) [noun] Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds. | [noun] The seed of the ginkgo tree. GINNED (8) [verb] To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin. | [verb] To trap something in a gin. | [adjective] Drunk GINNER (7) GIPONS (9) GIPPED (12) GIPPER (11) GIRDED (9) [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [verb] To encircle with, or as if with a belt. | [verb] To prepare oneself for an action. GIRDER (8) [noun] A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure. | [noun] One who girds; a satirist. GIRDLE (8) [noun] That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference | [noun] A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery. | [noun] The zodiac; also, the equator. | [noun] A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked. GIRLIE (7) [noun] A magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or semi-nude photographs of women. | [noun] A young girl. | [adjective] Of entertainment, involving attractive women or images thereof, usually nude or wearing skimpy clothing. GIRNED (8) [verb] To grimace; to snarl. | [verb] To whinge, moan, complain. | [verb] To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition. GIRONS (7) GIRTED (8) GIRTHS (10) [noun] A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place. | [noun] The part of an animal around which the girth fits. | [noun] One's waistline circumference, most often a large one. GISMOS (9) [noun] Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term. GITANO (7) GITTIN (7) GIVENS (10) [noun] A condition that is assumed to be true without further evaluation. GIVERS (10) [noun] One who gives; a donor or contributor. GIVING (11) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. GIZMOS (18) [noun] Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term. GLACES (9) GLACIS (9) [noun] A gentle incline in front of a fortification. | [noun] The angled armour plate on the front of a tank; glacis plate. | [noun] An erosional or depositional landform, with little slope. GLADES (8) [noun] An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. | [noun] An everglade. | [noun] An open space in the ice on a river or lake. GLADLY (11) [adverb] In a glad manner; happily. | [adverb] Willingly; certainly. GLAIRE (7) GLAIRS (7) GLAIRY (10) GLAIVE (10) [noun] A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head. | [noun] A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve. | [noun] A sword, particularly a broadsword. GLAMOR (9) [noun] Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seems beauteous. | [noun] Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal). | [noun] Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing. GLANCE (9) [noun] A brief or cursory look. | [noun] A deflection. | [noun] A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side. GLANDS (8) [noun] An organ that synthesizes a substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland). | [noun] A secretory structure on the surface of an organ. | [noun] A compressable cylindrical case and its contents around a shaft where it passes through a barrier, intended to prevent the passage of a fluid past the barrier, such as: GLARED (8) [verb] To stare angrily. | [verb] To shine brightly. | [verb] To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid. GLARES (7) [noun] An intense, blinding light. | [noun] Showy brilliance; gaudiness. | [noun] An angry or fierce stare. GLASSY (10) [noun] Glass marble. | [adjective] Of or like glass, especially in being smooth and somewhat reflective. | [adjective] Including a lot of glass. GLAZED (17) [verb] To install windows. | [verb] To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating. | [verb] To become glazed or glassy. GLAZER (16) GLAZES (16) [noun] The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See glaze (transitive verb). | [noun] A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint. | [noun] A smooth edible coating applied to food. GLEAMS (9) [noun] A small or indistinct shaft or stream of light. | [noun] A glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something. | [noun] Brightness or shininess; splendor. GLEAMY (12) [adjective] Shiny, bright, glowing GLEANS (7) [verb] To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering. | [verb] To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard). | [verb] To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit. GLEBAE (9) GLEBES (9) [noun] Turf; soil; ground; sod. | [noun] In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses. | [noun] A meadow, land or fields GLEDES (8) GLEEDS (8) GLEEKS (11) GLEETS (7) GLEETY (10) GLEGLY (11) GLEYED (11) GLIBLY (12) GLIDED (9) [verb] To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly. | [verb] To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish. | [verb] To cause to glide. GLIDER (8) [noun] The act of gliding. | [noun] A transitional sound, especially a semivowel. | [noun] An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact. GLIDES (8) [noun] The act of gliding. | [noun] A transitional sound, especially a semivowel. | [noun] An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact. GLIFFS (13) GLIMED (10) GLIMES (9) GLINTS (7) [noun] A short flash of light. GLIOMA (9) [noun] A tumour that arises from glial cells in the brain or spinal cord GLITCH (12) [noun] A problem affecting function. | [noun] An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time. | [noun] A bug or an exploit. GLITZY (19) [adjective] Brilliantly showy. GLOAMS (9) GLOATS (7) [noun] An act or instance of gloating. | [verb] To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune. | [verb] To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel. GLOBAL (9) [noun] A globally scoped identifier. | [adjective] Concerning all parts of the world. | [adjective] Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal: GLOBBY (14) GLOBED (10) [verb] To become spherical. | [verb] To make spherical. GLOBES (9) [noun] Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object. | [noun] The planet Earth. | [noun] A spherical model of Earth or any planet. GLOBIN (9) GLOGGS (9) GLOMUS (9) GLOOMS (9) [noun] Darkness, dimness or obscurity. | [noun] A melancholic, depressing or despondent atmosphere. | [noun] Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. GLOOMY (12) [adjective] Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening. | [adjective] Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. GLOPPY (14) GLORIA (7) [noun] A lightweight fabric used for umbrellas and dresses. | [noun] A doxology. GLOSSA (7) GLOSSY (10) [noun] A glossy magazine. | [noun] A glossy photograph. | [noun] A film depicting people with glamorous lifestyles. GLOSTS (7) GLOUTS (7) GLOVED (11) [verb] To catch the ball in a baseball mitt. | [verb] To put a glove or gloves on. | [verb] To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball. GLOVER (10) [noun] A person who makes or sells gloves. GLOVES (10) [noun] An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers. | [noun] A baseball mitt. | [noun] The ability to catch a hit ball. GLOWED (11) [verb] To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated. | [verb] To radiate some emotional quality like light. | [verb] To gaze especially passionately at something. GLOWER (10) [noun] An angry glare or stare. | [verb] To look or stare with anger. | [noun] That which glows or emits light. GLOZED (17) [verb] To extenuate, explain away, gloss over. | [verb] To use flattering language. | [verb] To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation. GLOZES (16) [noun] A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary. | [noun] Flattery. | [noun] (False) appearance. GLUCAN (9) [noun] Any polysaccharide that is a polymer of glucose GLUERS (7) GLUIER (7) [adjective] Viscous and adhesive, as glue. GLUILY (10) GLUING (8) [verb] To join or attach something using glue. | [verb] To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively. | [noun] The act of attaching something with glue. GLUMES (9) [noun] A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae). GLUMLY (12) GLUMPY (14) GLUNCH (12) GLUONS (7) [noun] A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force. GLUTEI (7) [noun] One of the several muscles of nates, which arises from a pelvis and inserted into a femur. | [noun] Short for gluteus maximus, the large muscles in the human buttocks. GLUTEN (7) [noun] Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours"). | [noun] Any gluey, sticky substance. | [noun] The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread. GLYCAN (12) [noun] (cabrohydrate) Any polysaccharide or oligosaccharide, especially one that is part of a glycoprotein or glycolipid. GLYCIN (12) GLYCOL (12) [noun] Any aliphatic diol. | [noun] A thick, colourless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds and used as an antifreeze; ethylene glycol. GLYCYL (15) GLYPHS (15) [noun] A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea. | [noun] Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information. | [noun] A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style. GNARLS (7) [noun] A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree. | [noun] Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs. | [verb] To knot or twist something. GNARLY (10) [adjective] Having or characterized by gnarls; gnarled. | [adjective] Excellent; attractive. | [adjective] Dangerous; difficult. GNARRS (7) GNATTY (10) GNAWED (11) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GNAWER (10) GNEISS (7) [noun] A common and widely-distributed metamorphic rock having bands or veins, but not schistose. GNOMES (9) [noun] A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying. | [noun] (magic, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth. | [noun] (fantasy literature) One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually even smaller than dwarves and more focussed on engineering than mining. GNOMIC (11) [adjective] Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings). | [adjective] (of a saying or aphorism) Mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise. | [adjective] (grammar) Expressing general truths or aphorisms. GNOMON (9) [noun] An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial. | [noun] An object such as a pillar used by an observer to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun (that is, the altitude of the sun when it reaches the observer's meridian), for the purpose of determining the observer's latitude. | [noun] The index of the hour circle of a globe. GNOSES (7) GNOSIS (7) [noun] (gnosticism) an immanent form of knowledge or transcendent insight, such as sought by the Gnostics | [noun] Act or process of knowing | [noun] An altered state of awareness in which the will is magically effective GOADED (9) [verb] To prod with a goad. | [verb] To encourage or stimulate. | [verb] To incite or provoke. GOALED (8) GOALIE (7) [noun] A goalkeeper or goaltender. | [verb] To act as a goalie, to tend the goals, to mind the net. GOANNA (7) [noun] Any of various monitor lizards native to Australia. GOATEE (7) [noun] A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin. GOBANG (10) GOBANS (9) GOBBED (12) [verb] To gather into a lump. | [verb] To spit, especially to spit phlegm. | [verb] To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine. GOBBET (11) [noun] A quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch. | [noun] A lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat. | [noun] An extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, discussion, or translation in an examination. GOBBLE (11) [noun] Fellatio; blowjob | [noun] An act of eating hastily or greedily. | [verb] To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up) | [noun] The sound of a turkey. GOBIES (9) [noun] Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker. | [noun] A gudgeon, such as Gobio gobio. GOBLET (9) [noun] A drinking vessel with a foot and stem. GOBLIN (9) [noun] One of various hostile supernatural creatures, now especially (fantasy literature) a malevolent and grotesque diminutive humanoid. GOBOES (9) GOBONY (12) [adjective] Compony GODDAM (11) [noun] (Gallicism, chiefly in the plural) An English person, from the perspective of a French person or in the context of French history. | [interjection] An expression of anger, surprise, intense excitment or frustration. GODDED (10) GODETS (8) [noun] A drinking cup. | [noun] A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset. | [noun] A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing. GODOWN (11) [noun] A warehouse. GODSON (8) [noun] A male child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent. GODWIT (11) [noun] Any of four species of long-billed, migratory wading birds in the genus Limosa, of the family Scolopacidae. GOFERS (10) [noun] A worker who runs errands; an errand boy. GOFFER (13) [verb] To make wavy; to crimp. | [noun] Soft drink; non-alcoholic drink GOGGLE (9) [noun] A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye. | [noun] (in the plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses. | [verb] To stare (at something) with wide eyes. GOGGLY (12) GOGLET (8) GOINGS (8) [noun] A departure. | [noun] The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc. | [noun] Progress. GOITER (7) [noun] An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland. GOITRE (7) [noun] An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland. GOLDEN (8) [noun] Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia. | [adjective] Made of, or relating to, gold. | [adjective] Having a colour or other richness suggestive of gold. | [verb] To become gold or golden (in colour). GOLDER (8) GOLEMS (9) [noun] A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic. | [noun] (by extension) A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic. GOLFED (11) [verb] To play the game of golf. | [verb] To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf) | [adjective] Having had its source code made as short as possible, as in code golf. GOLFER (10) [noun] Someone who plays golf. GOLOSH (10) GOMBOS (11) GOMUTI (9) GONADS (8) [noun] A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The testicles. GONEFS (10) GONERS (7) [noun] Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case. GONGED (9) [verb] To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong. | [verb] To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device. | [verb] To give an award or medal to. GONIFF (13) [noun] A thief; a rascal or scoundrel. GONIFS (10) [noun] A thief; a rascal or scoundrel. GONION (7) GONIUM (9) GONOFS (10) GONOPH (12) GOOBER (9) [noun] The language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe. | [noun] A person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe. | [noun] A native or resident of the state of Georgia in the United States of America. GOODBY (13) [noun] An utterance of goodbye, the wishing of farewell to someone. GOODIE (8) [noun] A good character in a story, often a hero. | [interjection] Expression of pleasure; yippee. GOODLY (11) [adjective] Good; pleasing in appearance; attractive; comely; graceful; pleasant; desirable. | [adjective] Quite large; considerable; sufficient; adequate; more than enough. | [adverb] In a goodly way; courteously, graciously. GOOFED (11) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To engage in mischief. GOOGLY (11) [noun] A ball, bowled by a leg-break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery. | [adjective] (of the eyes) Bulging. | [adjective] (usually of eyes, sometimes of persons) Appearing to be amorous, flirtatious. GOOGOL (8) [numeral] The number 10^{100}, or ten to the power of a hundred. GOOIER (7) [adjective] Of or relating to goo | [adjective] Soft, sticky and viscous GOONEY (10) GOONIE (7) GOORAL (7) GOOSED (8) [verb] To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters. | [verb] To stimulate, to spur. | [verb] To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator. GOOSES (7) [verb] To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters. | [verb] To stimulate, to spur. | [verb] To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator. GOOSEY (10) [noun] A goose. | [noun] A foolish person; a silly. | [adjective] Characteristic of a goose; anserine GOPHER (12) [noun] A small burrowing rodent, especially in the family Geomyidae. | [noun] The gopher tortoise. | [noun] The gopher rockfish. | [noun] A worker who runs errands; an errand boy. GORALS (7) [noun] A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus. GORGED (9) [adjective] With a stomach stuffed full of food. | [adjective] With the neck collared or encircled by an object. | [adjective] Having a gorge or throat. GORGER (8) [noun] One who gorges | [noun] Someone who is not a Romani, Sinti, Gypsy, or Traveller GORGES (8) GORGET (8) [noun] A piece of armour for the throat. | [noun] A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple. | [noun] An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc. GORGON (8) [noun] A vicious female monster from Greek mythology with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. One of the three sisters: Medusa, Stheno and Euryale | [noun] An intimidating, ugly, or disgusting woman; anything hideous or horrid. | [adjective] Like a gorgon; very ugly or terrifying. GORHEN (10) GORIER (7) [adjective] Covered with blood, very bloody | [adjective] Unpleasant GORILY (10) GORING (8) [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [verb] To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear. | [verb] To cut in a triangular form. GORSES (7) [noun] Evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having spiny leaves and yellow flowers. GOSPEL (9) [noun] The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the life, crucifixion, death, resurrection, and teachings of Jesus. | [noun] An account of the life, crucifixion, death, resurrection, and teachings of Jesus, generally written during the first several centuries of the Common Era. | [noun] The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments. GOSSAN (7) [noun] Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein GOSSIP (9) [noun] Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business. | [noun] Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present. | [noun] Idle conversation in general. GOTHIC (12) [adjective] Of or relating to the Goths or their language. | [adjective] Barbarous, rude, unpolished, belonging to the “Dark Ages”, medieval as opposed to classical. | [adjective] Of or relating to the architectural style favored in Western Europe in the 12th to 16th centuries, with high-pointed arches, clustered columns, etc. GOTTEN (7) [verb] (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | [verb] To receive. | [verb] (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes. GOUGED (9) [verb] To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. | [verb] To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price. | [verb] To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket. GOUGER (8) GOUGES (8) [noun] Senses relating to cutting tools. | [noun] A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp. | [noun] (originally United States) An act of gouging. GOURDE (8) [noun] The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes. GOURDS (8) [noun] Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae). | [noun] A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita. | [noun] The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration. GOVERN (10) [noun] The act of governing | [verb] To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in. | [verb] To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain. GOWANS (10) [noun] The common daisy. | [noun] Decomposed granite. GOWANY (13) GOWNED (11) [verb] To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown. GOYISH (13) GRAALS (7) GRABBY (14) [adjective] Tending to grab, especially rudely or greedily. GRABEN (9) [noun] An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area. GRACED (10) [verb] To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. | [verb] To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour. | [verb] To supply with heavenly grace. GRACES (9) [noun] Charming, pleasing qualities. | [noun] A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal. | [noun] In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules. GRADED (9) [verb] To assign scores to the components of an academic test. | [verb] To assign a score to overall academic performance. | [verb] To organize in grades. GRADER (8) [noun] A machine used in road maintenance and construction for leveling large surfaces. | [noun] One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated. | [noun] (in combination) One who belongs to a certain grade at school. GRADES (8) [noun] A rating. | [noun] The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score. | [noun] A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality. GRADIN (8) [noun] Any of a series of terraced steps or seats, as in an arena or an altar. GRADUS (8) [noun] A handbook used as an aid in a difficult art or practice, specifically, a dictionary of Greek or Latin prosody used as a guide in writing of poetry in Greek or Latin. GRAFTS (10) [noun] A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. | [noun] A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. | [noun] A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty. GRAHAM (12) [noun] Flour made by grinding wheat berries including the bran. | [noun] A graham cracker. GRAILS (7) [noun] The Holy Grail. | [noun] The object of an extended or difficult quest.http//www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grail | [noun] A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. GRAINS (7) [noun] Pigeons' dung used in tanning. See grainer. | [noun] The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley. | [noun] Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa. GRAINY (10) [adjective] Resembling grains; granular. | [adjective] Coarsely ground or gritty. GRAMAS (9) GRAMME (11) [noun] Gram (unit of mass) GRAMPS (11) [noun] Grandpa, grandfather. | [noun] (by extension) Old man. GRANDS (8) [noun] (plural "grand") A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.) | [noun] (plural "grands") A grand piano | [noun] A grandparent or grandchild. GRANGE (8) [noun] A granary. | [noun] A farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse or manor. | [noun] A lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization. GRANNY (10) [noun] A grandmother. | [noun] An elderly woman. | [noun] (knots) A granny knot. GRANTS (7) [noun] The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission. | [noun] The yielding or admission of something in dispute. | [noun] The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. GRANUM (9) [noun] A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis. GRAPES (9) [noun] A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis. | [noun] A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis. | [noun] A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes. GRAPEY (12) GRAPHS (12) [noun] (applied mathematics) A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers. | [noun] A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m, y)\in\R^{m+1}, where y=f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m) for a given function f: \R^m\rightarrow\R. | [noun] (formally) An ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V; (less formally) a set of vertices (or nodes) together with a set of edges that connect (some of) the vertices. GRAPPA (11) [noun] An Italian grape-based spirit of between 80 and 100 proof, made from the distillation of pomace. | [noun] A variety or serving of grappa. GRASPS (9) [noun] (sometimes figurative) Grip. | [noun] Understanding. | [noun] That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability. GRASSY (10) [adjective] Covered with grass. | [adjective] Resembling grass. GRATED (8) [verb] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars | [verb] To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater | [verb] To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something GRATER (7) [noun] A tool with which one grates, especially cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump GRATES (7) [noun] A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot | [noun] A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning | [verb] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars GRATIN (7) [noun] The top crust of a dish, consisting of breadcrumbs or grated cheese heated under a grill; the dish itself. GRATIS (7) [adjective] Free, without charge. | [adverb] Free, without charge. GRAVED (11) [verb] To dig. | [verb] To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. | [verb] To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. GRAVEL (10) [noun] Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast. | [noun] A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics. | [noun] A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale GRAVEN (10) [verb] To dig. | [verb] To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. | [verb] To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. | [verb] To make graven or engraved | [verb] To make or become grave (serious or sombre) GRAVER (10) [noun] A burin | [noun] A carver, sculptor, or engraver | [adjective] Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful. GRAVES (10) [noun] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial | [noun] Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. | [noun] (by extension) Death, destruction. GRAVID (11) [adjective] Pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically. GRAYED (11) [verb] To become gray. | [verb] To cause to become gray. | [verb] To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region) GRAYER (10) [adjective] Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember. | [adjective] Dreary, gloomy. | [adjective] Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality. GRAYLY (13) GRAZED (17) [verb] To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. | [verb] To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture) | [verb] To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. GRAZER (16) GRAZES (16) [noun] The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing. | [noun] A light abrasion; a slight scratch. | [noun] The act of animals feeding from pasture. GREASE (7) [noun] Animal fat in a melted or soft state | [noun] (extension) Any oily or fatty matter. | [noun] Shorn but not yet cleansed wool GREASY (10) [adjective] Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease. | [adjective] Containing a lot of grease or fat. | [adjective] Shady, sketchy, dodgy, detestable, unethical. GREATS (7) [noun] A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim. | [noun] The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division. | [noun] (in combinations such as "two-greats", "three-greats" etc.) An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships. GREAVE (10) [noun] A bush; a tree; a grove. | [noun] A bough; a branch. | [noun] A ditch or trench. | [noun] A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin. | [verb] To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave. GREBES (9) [noun] Any of several waterbirds in the cosmopolitan family Podicipedidae. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes. GREEDS (8) GREEDY (11) [adjective] Having greed; consumed by selfish desires. | [adjective] Prone to overeat. | [adjective] Tending to match as much text as possible. GREENS (7) [noun] The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters. | [noun] (sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist. | [noun] A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole. | [verb] To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. GREENY (10) [noun] An environmentalist; someone who shows concern for the environment. | [noun] (by extension) A member of the Green Party. | [noun] (Wyoming) A person from Colorado; after the color of the Colorado license plate. GREETS (7) [verb] To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or over the phone/internet | [verb] To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy) | [verb] To accost; to address. GREGOS (8) GREIGE (8) [adjective] (of textiles) Unfinished; not fully processed; neither bleached nor dyed. | [noun] A colour between grey and beige, closely akin to taupe. | [adjective] Of a colour between grey and beige. GREMMY (14) GREYED (11) [verb] To become grey. | [verb] To cause to become grey. | [verb] To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region. GREYER (10) [adjective] Having a color. | [adjective] Having a particular color or kind of color. | [adjective] Having prominent colors; colorful. GREYLY (13) GRIDED (9) GRIDES (8) GRIEFS (10) [noun] Suffering, hardship. | [noun] Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. | [noun] Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial. GRIEVE (10) [verb] To cause sorrow or distress to. | [verb] To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for. | [verb] To experience grief. | [noun] A governor of a town or province. GRIFFE (13) GRIFFS (13) GRIFTS (10) [noun] A confidence game or swindle. | [verb] To obtain illegally, as by con game. | [verb] To obtain money illegally. GRIGRI (8) GRILLE (7) [noun] A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack. | [noun] On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it. | [noun] A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English GRILLS (7) [noun] A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack. | [noun] On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it. | [noun] A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English GRILSE (7) [noun] A young salmon after its first return from the sea. GRIMED (10) [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRIMES (9) [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRIMLY (12) [adjective] Grim-looking, grim-natured. | [adverb] In a grim manner. GRINCH (12) [noun] A grouch or killjoy. | [noun] A person who aggressively sets out to ruin the Christmas holidays for others. GRINDS (8) [noun] The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. | [noun] Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground. | [noun] A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans. GRINGO (8) [noun] A white person from an English-speaking country, particularly the United States. GRIOTS (7) [noun] A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet. | [noun] A Haitian dish of fried pork. GRIPED (10) [verb] To complain; to whine. | [verb] To annoy or bother. | [verb] To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm. GRIPER (9) GRIPES (9) [noun] A complaint, often a petty or trivial one. | [noun] A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems. | [noun] Grasp; clutch; grip GRIPEY (12) GRIPPE (11) [noun] Influenza, the flu. GRIPPY (14) [adjective] Having a tight grip, or tending to grip well. | [adjective] Tight-fisted, greedy, stingy. | [adjective] Afflicted with, or relating to, grippe, or influenza. GRISLY (10) [adjective] Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying. | [adverb] In a horrible or terrible manner; in a terrifying way. GRISON (7) [noun] A small, carnivorous South American mammal, of the genus Galictis, somewhat resembling a weasel. GRISTS (7) GRITHS (10) GRITTY (10) [adjective] Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles. | [adjective] Spirited; resolute; unyielding. | [adjective] Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence. GRIVET (10) [noun] An Old World monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face. GROANS (7) [noun] A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief. | [noun] A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration, disapproval, or ecstasy. | [noun] (of an object) A low creaking sound from applied pressure or weight. GROATS (7) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Hulled grain. | [noun] Any of various old coins of England and Scotland. | [noun] A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins. GROCER (9) [noun] A person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery. | [verb] To sell groceries; to act as a grocer. GROGGY (12) [adjective] Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc. | [adjective] Of a horse: bearing wholly on its heels when trotting. GROINS (7) [noun] The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region. | [noun] The area adjoining this fold or depression. | [noun] The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults GROOMS (9) [noun] A man who is about to marry. | [noun] A person who cares for horses. | [noun] One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department. GROOVE (10) [noun] A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression. | [noun] A fixed routine. | [noun] The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit. GROOVY (13) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or having grooves. | [adjective] Set in one's ways. | [noun] A trendy and fashionable person. GROPED (10) [verb] To feel with or use the hands; to handle. | [verb] To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see. | [verb] To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually. GROPER (9) [noun] Agent noun of grope; one who gropes. | [noun] An employee of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially those who perform inspections on passengers. | [noun] Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. GROPES (9) [noun] An act of groping, especially sexually. | [noun] An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel | [verb] To feel with or use the hands; to handle. GROSZE (16) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Polish zloty. GROSZY (19) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Polish zloty. GROTTO (7) [noun] A small cave. | [noun] An artificial cavern-like retreat. | [noun] A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure. GROTTY (10) [adjective] Unpleasant, dirty, slovenly or offensive GROUCH (12) [noun] A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor. | [noun] One who is grumpy or irritable. | [verb] To be grumpy or irritable; to complain. GROUND (8) [noun] The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground. | [noun] Terrain. | [noun] Soil, earth. | [verb] To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion. GROUPS (9) [noun] A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. | [noun] A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse. | [noun] An effective divisor on a curve. GROUSE (7) [noun] Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere. | [verb] To seek or shoot grouse. | [noun] A cause for complaint. | [adjective] Excellent. GROUTS (7) [verb] To insert mortar between tiles. GROUTY (10) GROVED (11) GROVEL (10) [verb] To be prone on the ground. | [verb] To crawl. | [verb] To abase oneself before another person. GROVES (10) [noun] A small forest. | [noun] An orchard of fruit trees. | [noun] (Druidism) A place of worship. GROWER (10) [noun] A farmer; one who grows things. | [noun] Something that grows. | [noun] Someone or something who becomes more likeable over time GROWLS (10) [noun] A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal. | [noun] (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a person's stomach when hungry. | [noun] (by extension) An aggressive grumbling. GROWLY (13) [adjective] Resembling the sound of a growl; throaty GROWTH (13) [noun] An increase in size, number, value, or strength. | [noun] The act of growing, getting bigger or higher. | [noun] Something that grows or has grown. GROYNE (10) [noun] An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater. GRUBBY (14) [noun] Any species of Cottus; a sculpin. | [adjective] Dirty, unwashed, unclean. | [adjective] Having grubs in it. GRUDGE (9) [noun] Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to a past misdeed or mistreatment. | [verb] To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something). | [verb] To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied. GRUELS (7) GRUFFS (13) GRUFFY (16) GRUGRU (8) GRUMES (9) [noun] A thick semisolid | [noun] A clot (of blood) GRUMPS (11) [noun] A habitually grumpy or complaining person. | [noun] A grumpy mood. | [verb] To complain. GRUMPY (14) [adjective] Dissatisfied and irritable. GRUNGE (8) [noun] Dirt or filth, especially when difficult to clean. | [noun] The state of being filthy; grubbiness. | [noun] A subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington, which melds punk and metal. GRUNGY (11) [adjective] Dirty; shabby; in disrepair. | [adjective] Of or relating to grunge music. GRUNTS (7) [noun] A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak. | [noun] The snorting cry of a pig. | [noun] Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae. GRUTCH (12) GUACOS (9) GUAIAC (9) [noun] A paper treated with alpha-guaiaconic acid, used in tests to detect blood in the faeces. GUANAY (10) GUANIN (7) GUANOS (7) [noun] Dung from a sea bird or from a bat. | [noun] A variety of seabird. GUARDS (8) [noun] A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something. | [noun] A garda; a police officer. | [noun] A squad responsible for protecting something. GUAVAS (10) [noun] A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava. | [noun] Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color. | [noun] A medium reddish-pink colour, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink). GUENON (7) [noun] An Old World monkey of the genus Cercopithecus. GUESTS (7) [noun] A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another. | [noun] A patron or customer in a hotel etc. | [noun] An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast. GUFFAW (16) [noun] A boisterous laugh. | [verb] To laugh boisterously. GUGGLE (9) GUGLET (8) GUIDED (9) [verb] To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. | [verb] To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot. | [verb] To exert control or influence over someone or something. GUIDER (8) [noun] One who guides. GUIDES (8) [noun] Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation. | [noun] A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. | [noun] A sign that guides people; guidepost. GUIDON (8) [noun] A small pennant or banner carried by infantry soldiers to direct troop movement. | [noun] A soldier assigned to carry such a banner. GUILDS (8) [noun] A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages. | [noun] A corporation. | [noun] A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits. GUILED (8) GUILES (7) GUILTS (7) [verb] To commit offenses; act criminally. | [verb] To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour. GUILTY (10) [noun] A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge. | [noun] A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime. | [noun] One who is declared guilty of a crime. GUIMPE (11) [noun] Gimp; a narrow flat braid or reinforced cord of fabric used for ornamental trimming. | [noun] A kind of short, high-necked blouse with sleeves of the late Victorian era, designed to be worn under a low-cut dress, jumper, or pinafore dress. | [noun] A kind of short chemisette or yoke insert made of lace, embroidery, or the like, worn with a low-necked dress. GUINEA (7) [noun] A person of Italian descent. | [noun] A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings. | [noun] Any of several African birds of the family Numididae (6 species) resembling partridges. GUIROS (7) [noun] A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound. | [noun] A genre of traditional Cuban music, used in santería rituals. | [noun] A musical instrument consisting of a gourd surrounded by a net of beads. GUISED (8) GUISES (7) [noun] Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.) | [noun] External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape. | [noun] Misleading appearance; cover, cloak. GUITAR (7) [noun] A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick). | [noun] Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard. | [verb] To play the guitar. GULAGS (8) [noun] A prison camp. | [noun] The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period. GULDEN (8) [noun] An old currency of the Netherlands (and its overseas territory the Netherlands Antilles). GULFED (11) GULLED (8) [verb] To deceive or cheat. | [verb] To mislead. | [verb] To trick and defraud. GULLET (7) [noun] The throat or esophagus. | [noun] The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested. | [noun] The space between the teeth of a saw blade. GULLEY (10) [noun] A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside. | [noun] A small valley. | [noun] A drop kerb. GULPED (10) [verb] To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow. | [verb] To react nervously by swallowing. GULPER (9) [noun] One who gulps. | [noun] A gulper eel. GUMBOS (11) [noun] A soup or stew made with okra. | [noun] A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy. | [noun] The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus. GUMMAS (11) [noun] A soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis. GUMMED (12) [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. | [verb] (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to. GUMMER (11) GUNDOG (9) [noun] A breed of dog used by hunters to find, flush out and retrieve birds and other game. GUNITE (7) [noun] A form of shotcrete in which a dry cementitious mixture is blown through a hose to the nozzle, with water injected only at the point of application. GUNMAN (9) [noun] A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer. GUNMEN (9) [noun] A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer. GUNNED (8) [verb] (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm. | [verb] To speed something up. | [verb] To offer vigorous support to a person or cause. GUNNEL (7) [noun] A small eel-shaped marine fish of the family Pholidae, especially Pholis gunnellus. | [noun] The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck. GUNNEN (7) GUNNER (7) [noun] Artillery soldier, or such who holds private rank. Abbreviated Gnr. | [noun] A person who operates a gun. | [noun] An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition. | [noun] (Cebu) The person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session. GUNSEL (7) [noun] (dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother. | [noun] A promiscuous woman, slut, whore. | [noun] A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman. | [noun] A gun-carrying hoodlum or other criminal. GURGED (9) GURGES (8) GURGLE (8) [noun] A gurgling sound. | [verb] To flow with a bubbling sound. | [verb] To make such a sound. GURNET (7) GURNEY (10) [noun] A stretcher having wheeled legs. GUSHED (11) [verb] To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. | [verb] To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume. | [verb] (especially of a woman) To ejaculate during orgasm. GUSHER (10) [noun] One who gushes (makes an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment). | [noun] An oil well that has a natural flow and so requires no pumping. GUSHES (10) [noun] A sudden rapid outflow. | [verb] To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. | [verb] To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume. GUSSET (7) [noun] A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet. | [noun] A small piece of mail, providing some protection where two plates of armor are joined, usually at the elbows, under the shoulders, and behind the knees. | [noun] (machinery) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler. GUSSIE (7) GUSTED (8) [verb] To blow in gusts. | [verb] To taste. | [verb] To have a relish for. GUTTAE (7) GUTTED (8) [verb] To eviscerate. | [verb] To remove or destroy the most important parts of. | [adjective] Eviscerated. GUTTER (7) [noun] A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water. | [noun] A ditch along the side of a road. | [noun] A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough. | [noun] One who or that which guts. GUTTLE (7) GUYING (11) [verb] To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November. | [verb] To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo. | [verb] To play in a comedic manner. GUYOTS (10) [noun] A flat-topped seamount. GUZZLE (25) [noun] Drink; intoxicating liquor. | [noun] A drinking bout; a debauch. | [noun] An insatiable thing or person. GWEDUC (13) GYBING (13) [verb] To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind. | [verb] Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other. | [verb] Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel. GYPPED (15) [verb] (sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately. GYPPER (14) GYPSUM (14) [noun] A mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. GYRASE (10) GYRATE (10) [verb] To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve. | [adjective] Having coils or convolutions GYRENE (10) GYRING (11) [verb] To whirl GYRONS (10) [noun] A triangular form having an angle at the fess point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon. GYROSE (10) GYVING (14)

GABBARD (13) GABBART (12) GABBERS (12) [noun] A liar; a deceiver. | [noun] One who is addicted to idle talk. | [noun] A subgenre of hardcore techno characterised by an intense, distorted kick sound and controversial lyrics or samples. GABBIER (12) [adjective] Inclined to talk too much, especially about trivia. GABBING (13) [verb] To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie. | [verb] To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects. | [verb] To speak or tell falsely. GABBLED (13) [verb] To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning. | [verb] To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity. GABBLER (12) GABBLES (12) [verb] To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning. | [verb] To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity. GABBROS (12) [noun] Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite. GABELLE (10) GABFEST (13) [noun] An occasion (such as a meeting) where people talk at length. GABIONS (10) [noun] A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag). | [noun] A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride. | [noun] A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks. GABLING (11) GABOONS (10) [noun] A receptacle for spit; a spittoon, a spitbox; a spit bucket. GADDERS (10) GADDING (11) [verb] To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. | [noun] The act of one who gads, or moves about frivolously. GADGETS (10) [noun] A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey. | [noun] Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated. | [noun] Any consumer electronics product. GADGETY (13) GADOIDS (10) [noun] Any fish of the family Gadidae GADROON (9) [noun] Any of a series of raised decorative curves used as adornments on the necks of vases, silverware, etc. | [noun] A godroon. GADWALL (12) [noun] A common, widespread dabbling duck which breeds in the northern hemisphere (Mareca strepera, syn. Anas strepera). GAFFERS (14) [noun] A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production. | [noun] A glassblower. | [noun] An old man. GAFFING (15) [verb] To use a gaff, especially to land a fish. | [verb] To cheat or hoax. | [verb] To gamble. GAGAKUS (13) GAGGERS (10) GAGGING (11) [verb] To experience the vomiting reflex. | [verb] To cause to heave with nausea. | [verb] To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth. GAGGLED (11) GAGGLES (10) [noun] (collective) A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water. | [noun] (by extension) Any group or gathering of related things. | [verb] To make a noise like a goose; to cackle. GAGSTER (9) [noun] Joker; comedian GAHNITE (11) GAINERS (8) GAINFUL (11) [adjective] Contrary. | [adjective] Disposed to taking advantage of. | [adjective] Troublesome; fractious; hard to handle. | [adjective] Providing gain; profitable. GAINING (9) [verb] To acquire possession of. | [verb] To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress. | [verb] To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition. GAINSAY (11) [verb] To say something in contradiction to. GAITERS (8) [noun] A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep. | [noun] A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe. | [noun] Part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop. GAITING (9) GALABIA (10) GALAGOS (9) [noun] Any of several species of small, nocturnal and arboreal African primates, of the genus Galago, with a catlike head and very large, translucent eyes. GALATEA (8) GALAXES (15) GALEATE (8) GALENAS (8) GALENIC (10) [adjective] Of, or containing galena GALERES (8) GALILEE (8) [noun] A narthex, particularly in the United Kingdom and the Church of England; a vestibule, a fully-enclosed yet porch-like structure, leading to the main body of an English ecclesiastical building. | [noun] In certain Syriac Christian churches, the baptistry. GALIOTS (8) [noun] A light galley. GALIPOT (10) [noun] An unrefined turpentine obtained from some European pines GALLANT (8) [adjective] Brave, valiant. | [adjective] Honorable. | [adjective] Grand, noble. | [noun] A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women. GALLATE (8) [noun] Any oxoanion of gallium | [noun] Any salt or ester of gallic acid GALLEIN (8) GALLEON (8) [noun] A large, three masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks. GALLERY (11) [noun] An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art. | [noun] An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art. | [noun] The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium. GALLETA (8) GALLETS (8) GALLEYS (11) [noun] A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually referring to rowed warships used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era. | [noun] A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure. | [noun] One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war. GALLFLY (14) GALLIED (9) GALLIES (8) GALLING (9) [verb] To bother or trouble. | [verb] To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury. | [verb] To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin. GALLIOT (8) [noun] A light galley. GALLIUM (10) [noun] A chemical element (symbol Ga) with an atomic number of 31; a soft bluish metal. GALLNUT (8) GALLONS (8) [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints | [noun] Exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon | [noun] 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon") GALLOON (8) [noun] A braided trimming with bullion thread, used on men's coats in the eighteenth century, on women's apparel in the nineteenth, and on such furnishings as draperies or cushions. GALLOOT (8) GALLOPS (10) [noun] The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously. | [noun] An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop. | [verb] (of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop. GALLOUS (8) [adjective] Fit to be hanged; wicked; mischievous GALLOWS (11) [noun] Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging. | [noun] A wretch who deserves to be hanged. | [noun] The rest for the tympan when raised. | [verb] To frighten or terrify. GALOOTS (8) [noun] A clumsy or uncouth person. GALOPED (11) GALORES (8) GALOSHE (11) GALUMPH (15) [verb] To move heavily and clumsily, or with a sense of prancing and triumph. GALYACS (13) GALYAKS (15) GAMBADE (13) [noun] The leap of a horse | [noun] A prank or frolic GAMBADO (13) [noun] (usually plural) Either of a pair of protective leather gaiters on a saddle. | [noun] (in the plural) gamashes; spatterdashes | [noun] A gambade (leaping movement). GAMBIAS (12) GAMBIER (12) [noun] Uncaria gambir, a plant from Indonesia. | [noun] An astringent substance prepared from the leaves of the plant, used in tanning and dyeing. GAMBIRS (12) GAMBITS (12) [noun] An opening in chess, in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage. | [noun] Any ploy or stratagem. | [noun] A remark intended to open a conversation. GAMBLED (13) [verb] To take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome. | [verb] To play risky games, especially casino games, for monetary gain. | [verb] To risk (something) for potential gain. GAMBLER (12) [noun] One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles. | [noun] One who takes significant risks. GAMBLES (12) [noun] A bet or wager. | [noun] A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain. | [noun] A risky venture. GAMBOGE (13) [noun] One of several species of trees of the genus Garcinia found in South and Southeastern Asia, especially Garcinia xanthochymus. | [noun] The resin of the gamboge tree; a preparation of the resin used as a pigment or for medicinal purposes. | [noun] A deep yellow colour. GAMBOLS (12) [noun] An instance of running or skipping about playfully. | [noun] An instance of more general frisking or frolicking. GAMBREL (12) [noun] The hind leg of a horse. | [noun] (chiefly historical and obsolete outside dialectal) A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering. | [noun] A gambrel roof. GAMELAN (10) [noun] A genre of music of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs and a bamboo flute (called a siuling). | [noun] The name of the ensemble performing this style of music. GAMETES (10) [noun] A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes. GAMETIC (12) GAMIEST (10) GAMINES (10) [noun] A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl. | [noun] A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman. GAMINGS (11) GAMMERS (12) [noun] An old woman. GAMMIER (12) [adjective] Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs). GAMMING (13) GAMMONS (12) [noun] A cut of quick-cured pork leg. | [noun] A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone. | [noun] Backgammon (the game itself). GANACHE (13) [noun] A rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze. GANDERS (9) [noun] A male goose. | [noun] A fool, simpleton. | [noun] (used only with “have”, “get” and “take”) A glance, look. GANGERS (9) [noun] One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker. | [noun] A horse that goes quickly. | [noun] One who oversees a gang of workmen. GANGING (10) [verb] To go; walk; proceed. | [verb] To attach similar items together to form a larger unit. | [verb] To participate in a gangbang. GANGLIA (9) [noun] An encapsulated collection of nerve-cell bodies, located outside the brain and spinal cord. | [noun] Any of certain masses of gray matter in the brain, as the basal ganglia. | [noun] (by extension) A centre of intellectual or industrial force, activity, etc. GANGREL (9) GANGUES (9) GANGWAY (15) [noun] A passageway through which to enter or leave, such as one between seating areas in an auditorium, or between two buildings. | [noun] An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship. | [noun] A temporary passageway, such as one made of planks. GANJAHS (18) GANNETS (8) [noun] Any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family Sulidae. They have black and white bodies and long pointed wings, and hunt for fish by plunge diving and pursuing their prey underwater. | [noun] A voracious eater; a glutton. GANOIDS (9) [noun] One of the Ganoidei, a disused taxonomic grouping of fishes, including the bowfin, gars, and sturgeons. GANTLET (8) GAOLERS (8) [noun] One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison. GAOLING (9) [noun] An instance of a person being gaoled. | [verb] To imprison. GAPOSIS (10) GAPPIER (12) GAPPING (13) [verb] To notch, as a sword or knife. | [verb] To make an opening in; to breach. | [verb] To check the size of a gap. GARAGED (10) [verb] To store in a garage. | [adjective] (in combination) Having a specified kind or number of garages. GARAGES (9) [noun] A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items. | [noun] (20th century) A place where cars are serviced and repaired. | [noun] A petrol filling station. GARBAGE (11) [noun] Food waste material of any kind. | [noun] Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind. | [noun] A place or receptacle for waste material. GARBING (11) [verb] To dress in garb. GARBLED (11) [verb] To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert | [verb] To make false by mutilation or addition | [verb] To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt GARBLER (10) GARBLES (10) [verb] To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert | [verb] To make false by mutilation or addition | [verb] To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt GARBOIL (10) GARCONS (10) [noun] A male waiter (especially at a French restaurant). GARDANT (9) GARDENS (9) [noun] An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. | [noun] The grounds at the front or back of a house. | [noun] The twentieth Lenormand card. GARFISH (14) [noun] Any fish of the needlefish family Belonidae, with a long narrow body and needle-shaped jaws, especially the European species Belone belone. | [noun] Any North or Central American fish of the family Lepisosteidae. GARGETS (9) GARGETY (12) GARGLED (10) [verb] To clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs | [verb] To make a sound like the one made while gargling | [verb] To clean a specific part of the body by gargling (almost always throat or mouth) GARGLER (9) GARGLES (9) [noun] A liquid used for gargling | [noun] The sound of gargling | [noun] Lager, drink GARIGUE (9) GARLAND (9) [noun] A wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration. | [noun] An accolade or mark of honour. | [noun] A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe. GARLICS (10) GARMENT (10) [noun] A single item of clothing. | [noun] Short for temple garment. | [verb] To clothe in a garment. GARNERS (8) [noun] A granary; a store of grain. | [noun] An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something. | [verb] To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary. GARNETS (8) [noun] A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives. | [noun] A dark red color, like that of the gemstone. | [noun] A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out. | [noun] An old Russian dry measure, approximately 3.28 litres. GARNISH (11) [noun] A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types. | [noun] Pewter vessels in general. | [noun] Something added for embellishment. GAROTED (9) GAROTES (8) GAROTTE (8) [noun] A cord, wire or similar used for strangulation. | [noun] An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation. | [verb] To execute by strangulation. GARPIKE (14) [noun] A gar or garfish: GARRETS (8) [noun] An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house. GARRING (9) GARRONS (8) [noun] A small and usually disdained type of horse, typically bred in Scotland and Ireland. GARROTE (8) [noun] An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation | [noun] Something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation | [verb] To execute by strangulation GARTERS (8) [noun] A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking. | [noun] A bendlet. GARVEYS (14) GASBAGS (11) [noun] A bag or bladder to hold a reservoir of gas, as in a hot-air balloon. | [noun] A person who is overly garrulous or prone to making empty, unsupportable statements; a windbag. GASCONS (10) GASEOUS (8) [adjective] Relating to, or existing as, gas. | [adjective] Of a liquid containing bubbles: gassy. | [adjective] Tenuous or indefinite. GASHEST (11) GASHING (12) [verb] To make a deep, long cut; to slash. | [noun] The act of making a gash, or cut. | [noun] The roughing operation for worm gears. GASKETS (12) [noun] A length of rope used for reefing a sail, or holding a stowed sail in place. | [noun] Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression. | [noun] A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration. GASKING (13) GASKINS (12) [noun] (in the plural) Trousers, hose. | [noun] Part of the hind leg of a horse, between the stifle and the hock. | [noun] A gasket. GASLESS (8) GASOHOL (11) [noun] Gasoline mixed with ethyl alcohol GASPERS (10) [noun] Agent noun of gasp; a person or animal that gasps. | [noun] A cigarette. | [noun] (BDSM) One who is aroused by asphyxiation. GASPING (11) [verb] To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock. | [verb] To breathe laboriously or convulsively. | [verb] To speak in a breathless manner. GASSERS (8) [noun] One who gasses, or poisons with gas. | [noun] Something highly entertaining or remarkable. | [noun] A kind of hot rod based on production models from the 1930s to mid-1960s, stripped of extraneous weight and jacked up using a truck beam axle to provide better weight distribution on acceleration. GASSIER (8) [adjective] Having the nature of, or containing, gas. | [adjective] Of food or drink: tending to cause flatulence. | [adjective] Tending to be long-winded or wordy, especially in a boastful and vain manner. GASSILY (11) GASSING (9) [verb] To kill with poisonous gas. | [verb] To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter. | [verb] To impose upon by talking boastfully. GASTERS (8) GASTING (9) GASTRAL (8) GASTREA (8) GASTRIC (10) [adjective] Of or relating to the stomach. GASTRIN (8) [noun] A hormone that stimulates the production of gastric acid in the stomach GATEAUX (15) [noun] A rich, usually iced, cake. | [noun] A dish of minced meat made up like a pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould. GATEMAN (10) [noun] A gatekeeper; a person who guards a gate. GATEMEN (10) [noun] A gatekeeper; a person who guards a gate. GATEWAY (14) [noun] An entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate. | [noun] Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another. | [noun] A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines. GATHERS (11) [noun] A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. | [noun] The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. | [noun] The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb). GAUCHER (13) GAUCHOS (13) [noun] A cowboy of the South American pampas. GAUDERY (12) GAUDIER (9) [adjective] Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner | [adjective] Fun; merry; festive GAUDIES (9) [noun] One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. | [noun] A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations. GAUDILY (12) GAUFFER (14) [verb] To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. | [verb] In fine bookbinding, to decorate the edges of a text block with a heated iron. GAUGERS (9) GAUGING (10) [verb] To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of. | [verb] To estimate. | [verb] To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of. GAUMING (11) GAUNTER (8) [adjective] Lean, angular and bony | [adjective] Haggard, drawn and emaciated | [adjective] Bleak, barren and desolate GAUNTLY (11) GAUNTRY (11) GAUSSES (8) [noun] The unit of magnetic field strength in CGS systems of units, equal to 0.0001 tesla. GAUZIER (17) [adjective] Having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy. | [adjective] Light; giving the effect of haze. GAUZILY (20) GAVAGES (12) GAVELED (12) [verb] To divide or distribute according to the gavel system. | [verb] To use a gavel. GAVIALS (11) [noun] The crocodilian Gavialis gangeticus; any species of the family Gavialidae. GAVOTTE (11) [noun] A French dance, in either 4/4 or 2/2 time. | [verb] To perform this dance. GAWKERS (15) GAWKIER (15) [adjective] Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement GAWKIES (15) GAWKILY (18) GAWKING (16) [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. | [verb] To stare conspicuously. GAWKISH (18) GAWPERS (13) GAWPING (14) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. | [noun] The action of the verb gawp. | [adjective] That gawps or gawp. GAYNESS (11) [noun] The state of being gay (colorful or festive); display or dressiness. | [noun] The state of being gay (cheerful); gaiety. | [noun] The state of being gay (homosexual); homosexuality. GAZABOS (19) GAZANIA (17) [noun] Any flowering plant of the genus Gazania, native to southern Africa. GAZEBOS (19) [noun] A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn. GAZELLE (17) [noun] An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa) or Procapra (native to Asia), capable of running at high speeds for long periods. GAZETTE (17) [noun] A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; especially, the official journal published by the British government, containing legal and state notices. | [verb] To publish in a gazette. | [verb] To announce the status of in an official gazette. This pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies. GAZUMPS (21) [noun] The act of gazumping. | [verb] To swindle; to extort. | [verb] To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one. GEARBOX (17) [noun] An enclosed gear train. | [noun] That part of a car's transmission containing the train of gears, and to which the gear lever is connected. GEARING (9) [verb] To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio. | [verb] To be in, or come into, gear. | [verb] To dress; to put gear on; to harness. GECKING (15) GECKOES (14) [noun] Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces. GEEGAWS (12) [noun] A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration. GEEKIER (12) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a geek. GEEZERS (17) [noun] (dated in US) A male person. | [noun] (chiefly Cockney) Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy. | [noun] Term of address for a male. GEISHAS (11) [noun] A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy. GELABLE (10) GELADAS (9) [noun] A species of Old World monkey, Theropithecus gelada, distinguished from baboons by the bright patch of skin on their chests. GELANTS (8) GELATED (9) GELATES (8) GELATIN (8) [noun] A protein derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen extracted from animal skin, bones, cartilage, ligaments, etc. | [noun] An edible jelly made from this material. | [noun] A thin, translucent membrane used as a filter for photography or for theatrical lighting effects. GELATOS (8) [noun] An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form. GELDERS (9) GELDING (10) [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). | [verb] To deprive of anything essential; to weaken. | [noun] A castrated male horse. GELIDLY (12) GELLANT (8) GELLING (9) [verb] To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc). | [verb] To become a gel. | [verb] To develop a rapport. GEMINAL (10) [adjective] Describing identical atoms or groups attached to the same atom in a molecule GEMLIKE (14) GEMMATE (12) GEMMIER (12) GEMMILY (15) GEMMING (13) [verb] To adorn with, or as if with, gems. GEMMULE (12) [noun] A small gemma or bud of dormant embryonic cells produced by some freshwater sponges. | [noun] A hypothetical particle once thought to be the basis of heredity according to pangenesis theory. GEMOTES (10) GEMSBOK (16) [noun] A large African antelope (Oryx gazella). GENDERS (9) [noun] Class; kind. | [noun] (grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate. | [noun] (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species). GENERAL (8) [noun] A general fact or proposition; a generality. | [noun] The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces. | [noun] A great strategist or tactician. GENERIC (10) [noun] A product sold under a generic name. | [noun] A wine that is a blend of several wines, or made from a blend of several grape varieties. | [noun] (grammar) A term that specifies neither male nor female. GENESES (8) GENESIS (8) [noun] The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being. GENETIC (10) [adjective] Relating to genetics or genes. | [adjective] Caused by genes. | [adjective] Of or relating to origin (genesis). GENETTE (8) GENEVAS (11) GENIPAP (12) [noun] The North and South American tree Genipa americana of the family Rubiaceae. | [noun] The fruit of this tree, oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice. GENITAL (8) [noun] The genitalia. | [adjective] Of, or relating to biological reproduction. | [adjective] Of, or relating to the genitalia. GENITOR (8) [noun] A biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring. | [noun] A generator; an originator | [noun] (in the plural) The genitals GENOISE (8) GENOMES (10) [noun] The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism. GENOMIC (12) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a genome. GENSENG (9) GENTEEL (8) [adjective] Affectedly proper or refined; somewhat prudish refinement; excessively polite. | [adjective] Polite and well-mannered. | [adjective] Stylish or elegant. GENTIAN (8) [noun] Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers. | [noun] The dried roots and rhizome of a European gentian (Gentiana lutea), used as a tonic. GENTILE (8) [noun] A non-Jewish person. | [noun] (grammar) A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country. | [adjective] Non-Jewish. GENTLED (9) [verb] To become gentle | [verb] To ennoble | [verb] (animal husbandry) to break; to tame; to domesticate GENTLER (8) [adjective] Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition. | [adjective] Soft and mild rather than hard or severe. | [adjective] Docile and easily managed. GENTLES (8) [verb] To become gentle | [verb] To ennoble | [verb] (animal husbandry) to break; to tame; to domesticate GENTOOS (8) GENUINE (8) [adjective] Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native | [adjective] Not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated GENUSES (8) GEODESY (12) [noun] The discipline which deals with the measurement and representation of Earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, Earth tides, and crustal motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space GEODUCK (15) [noun] The species of large saltwater clam Panopea generosa, native to the northeast Pacific coasts from Alaska to Washington State, distinguished by its deep burrowing and long unprotected siphon; a member of the species; its flesh as a seafood. | [noun] Other species of Panopea, especially Panopea zelandica, native to the coasts of New Zealand. GEOIDAL (9) GEOLOGY (12) [noun] The science that studies the structure of the earth (or other planets), together with its origin and development, especially by examination of its rocks. | [noun] The geological structure of a region. GEORGIC (11) [noun] A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating land, etc. | [adjective] Relating to rural affairs. GERBERA (10) [noun] A daisy of the genus Gerbera. GERBILS (10) [noun] One of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus and certain other genera in subfamily Gerbillinae, with leaping powers resembling the jerboa, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe. | [verb] To rotate inside a monowheel or similar apparatus due to sudden acceleration or braking. | [verb] To insert a small animal into one's rectum (a sexual practice in urban myth). GERENTS (8) GERENUK (12) [noun] A type of long-necked gazelle, Litocranius walleri, native to central and eastern Africa. GERMANE (10) [adjective] Related to the topic being discussed or considered. | [noun] Germanium tetrahydride, GeH4 | [noun] (especially in combination) Any organic derivative of this compound. GERMANS (10) [noun] A near relative. | [noun] An elaborate round dance, often with a waltz movement. | [noun] A social party at which the german is danced. GERMENS (10) GERMIER (10) [adjective] That carries germs. GERMINA (10) GERUNDS (9) [noun] (grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some modern texts such as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language) | [noun] (grammar) In some languages such as Dutch, Italian or Russian, a verbal form similar to a present participle, but functioning as an adverb to form adverbial phrases or continuous tense. These constructions have various names besides gerund, depending on the language, such as conjunctive participles, active participles, adverbial participles, transgressives, etc. GESSOED (9) GESSOES (8) [noun] A mixture of plaster of Paris and glue used to prepare a surface for painting. | [noun] A work of art done in gesso. GESTALT (8) [noun] A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being) | [noun] Shape, form GESTAPO (10) GESTATE (8) [verb] To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery. | [verb] (by analogy) To develop an idea. GESTURE (8) [noun] A motion of the limbs or body, especially one made to emphasize speech. | [noun] An act or a remark made as a formality or as a sign of attitude. | [noun] The manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture. GETABLE (10) GETAWAY (14) [noun] A means of escape. | [noun] The effecting of an escape. | [noun] A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one. GETTERS (8) [noun] One who gets. | [noun] A function used to retrieve the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the setter. | [noun] A material which is included in a vacuum system or device for removing gas by sorption. GETTING (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | [verb] To receive. | [verb] (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes. GEWGAWS (15) [noun] A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration. GEYSERS (11) [noun] A boiling natural spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam. | [noun] An instantaneous, and often dangerous, hot water heater. | [noun] A domestic water boiler. GHARIAL (11) [noun] A gavial. GHARRIS (11) GHASTLY (14) [adjective] Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal. | [adjective] Horrifyingly shocking. | [adjective] Extremely bad. GHAZIES (20) GHERKIN (15) [noun] A small cucumber, often pickled whole. | [noun] The penis. GHETTOS (11) [noun] An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) | [noun] An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race. | [noun] An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. GHIBLIS (13) GHILLIE (11) [noun] A low-cut type of shoe with decorative lacing. | [noun] A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief. | [noun] A fishing and hunting guide; a man or boy who attends to a person who is fishing or hunting, especially in Scotland. GHOSTED (12) [verb] To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition. | [verb] To die; to expire. | [verb] To ghostwrite. GHOSTLY (14) [adjective] Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits. | [adjective] Spooky; frightening. | [adjective] Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual. GHOULIE (11) GIAOURS (8) [noun] A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians. GIBBERS (12) [verb] To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently. GIBBETS (12) [noun] An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display. | [noun] The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib. | [noun] A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal. GIBBING (13) [verb] To fasten in place with a gib. | [verb] To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs. | [verb] To install plasterboard. GIBBONS (12) [noun] A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch. GIBBOSE (12) GIBBOUS (12) [adjective] Characterized by convexity; protuberant. | [adjective] Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter. | [adjective] Humpbacked. GIBLETS (10) [noun] The internal organs of poultry birds, used as food. GIBSONS (10) GIDDIED (11) [verb] To make dizzy or unsteady. | [verb] To reel; to whirl. GIDDIER (10) [adjective] Dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down. | [adjective] Causing dizziness: causing dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness. | [adjective] Lightheartedly silly, or joyfully elated. GIDDIES (10) [verb] To make dizzy or unsteady. | [verb] To reel; to whirl. GIDDILY (13) GIDDYAP (15) GIDDYUP (15) [verb] To cause a horse or similar mount to speed up. | [verb] (by extension) To start moving or move faster; to get a move on. | [interjection] (directed at a horse) Move on!, go faster! GIFTING (12) [verb] To give as a gift or donation. | [verb] To give away, to concede easily. | [noun] A divine gift. GIGABIT (11) [noun] 109 bits, a thousand million (1,000,000,000) bits. | [noun] 230 (1,073,741,824) bits. GIGATON (9) [noun] A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many billion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy. | [noun] One billion tons. GIGGING (11) [verb] To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear. | [verb] To engage in musical performances. | [verb] To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending. GIGGLED (11) [verb] To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way. GIGGLER (10) GIGGLES (10) [noun] A high-pitched, silly laugh. | [noun] Fun; an amusing episode. | [verb] To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way. GIGLETS (9) GIGLOTS (9) GIGOLOS (9) [noun] A man who has a sexual relationship with a woman from whom he receives payment. | [noun] A hired escort or dancing partner for a woman. GILBERT (10) GILDERS (9) GILDING (10) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. GILLERS (8) GILLIED (9) GILLIES (8) [noun] A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief. | [noun] A fishing and hunting guide; a man or boy who attends to a person who is fishing or hunting, especially in Scotland. | [noun] A gill of an alcoholic drink. GILLING (9) [verb] To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it | [verb] To catch (a fish) in a gillnet | [verb] To be or become entangled in a gillnet GILLNET (8) [noun] A vertical net, often resting on the sea floor, which entangles fish in the netting, frequently by the gills. | [verb] To fish using a gillnet. GIMBALS (12) [noun] A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped. GIMLETS (10) [noun] A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes. | [noun] A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice. | [verb] To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet). GIMMALS (12) GIMMICK (18) [noun] A trick or device used to attain some end. | [noun] A clever ploy or strategy. | [noun] A gimmick capacitor. GIMMIES (12) GIMPIER (12) GIMPING (13) [verb] (of yarn, cord, thread, etc.) To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped. | [verb] To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves. | [verb] To limp; to hobble. GINGALL (9) GINGALS (9) GINGELI (9) GINGELY (12) GINGERS (9) [noun] The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant and acarminative. | [noun] The plant that produces this rhizome. | [noun] Other species belonging to the same family, Zingiberaceae, especially those of the genus Zingiber GINGERY (12) GINGHAM (14) [noun] A cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks GINGILI (9) GINGIVA (12) [noun] The gum, consisting of the tissue surrounding the roots of the teeth and covering the jawbone. GINKGOS (13) [noun] Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds. | [noun] The seed of the ginkgo tree. GINNERS (8) GINNIER (8) GINNING (9) [verb] To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin. | [verb] To trap something in a gin. | [verb] To begin. GINSENG (9) [noun] Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal properties. | [noun] The root of such a plant, or an extract of these roots. GIPPERS (12) GIPPING (13) GIPSIED (11) GIPSIES (10) [noun] (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc). | [noun] An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A move in contra dancing in which two dancers walk in a circle around each other while maintaining eye contact (but not touching as in a swing). (Compare whole gyp, half gyp, and gypsy meltdown, in which this step precedes a swing.) GIRAFFE (14) [noun] A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns, so-called; strictly speaking the horn-like projections are ossicones. | [noun] A giraffe unicycle. | [noun] A laugh. GIRASOL (8) [noun] A fire opal. GIRDERS (9) [noun] A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure. | [noun] One who girds; a satirist. GIRDING (10) [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [verb] To encircle with, or as if with a belt. | [verb] To prepare oneself for an action. GIRDLED (10) [verb] To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means. | [verb] To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark. GIRDLER (9) [noun] A person who made girdles. | [noun] Any of several insects that remove rings of bark for nest material. GIRDLES (9) [noun] That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference | [noun] A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery. | [noun] The zodiac; also, the equator. GIRLIES (8) [noun] A magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or semi-nude photographs of women. | [noun] A young girl. GIRLISH (11) [adjective] Like (that of) a girl; feminine. | [adjective] Of or relating to girlhood. GIRNING (9) [verb] To grimace; to snarl. | [verb] To whinge, moan, complain. | [verb] To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition. GIROSOL (8) GIRSHES (11) GIRTHED (12) [adjective] Of a sizeable girth; portly. GIRTING (9) GISARME (10) GITANOS (8) GITTERN (8) [noun] A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain. | [verb] To play on the gittern. GIZZARD (27) [noun] A portion of the esophagus of either a bird or an annelid that contains ingested grit and is used to grind up ingested food before it is transferred to the stomach. GJETOST (15) [noun] Brunost GLACEED (11) GLACIAL (10) [noun] A glacial period (colloquially known as an ice age). | [adjective] Of, or relating to glaciers. | [adjective] Very slow. GLACIER (10) [noun] A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill. GLADDED (11) [verb] To make glad GLADDEN (10) [verb] To cause (something) to become more glad. | [verb] To become more glad in one's disposition. GLADDER (10) [adjective] Pleased, happy, gratified. | [adjective] Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness. GLADIER (9) GLAIKET (12) GLAIKIT (12) [adjective] Senseless; silly, foolish. GLAIRED (9) GLAIRES (8) GLAIVED (12) GLAIVES (11) [noun] A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head. | [noun] A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve. | [noun] A sword, particularly a broadsword. GLAMORS (10) GLAMOUR (10) [noun] Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seems beauteous. | [noun] Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal). | [noun] Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing. GLANCED (11) [verb] To look briefly (at something). | [verb] To graze a surface. | [verb] To sparkle. GLANCER (10) GLANCES (10) [noun] A brief or cursory look. | [noun] A deflection. | [noun] A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side. GLANDES (9) [noun] The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis. | [noun] The vascular body which forms the extremity of the clitoris. | [noun] The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits. GLARIER (8) GLARING (9) [verb] To stare angrily. | [verb] To shine brightly. | [verb] To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid. GLASSED (9) [verb] To apply fibreglass to. | [verb] To fit with glass; to glaze. | [verb] To enclose in glass. GLASSES (8) [verb] To apply fibreglass to. | [noun] An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime. | [noun] A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material. GLASSIE (8) GLAZERS (17) GLAZIER (17) [noun] One who glazes; a craftsman who works with glass, fitting windows, etc. | [adjective] Having the appearance of a glaze; glazed. GLAZING (18) [verb] To install windows. | [verb] To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating. | [verb] To become glazed or glassy. GLEAMED (11) [verb] To shine; to glitter; to glisten. | [verb] To be briefly but strongly apparent. | [verb] To disgorge filth, as a hawk. GLEAMER (10) GLEANED (9) [verb] To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering. | [verb] To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard). | [verb] To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit. GLEANER (8) GLEEFUL (11) [adjective] Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful. GLEEKED (13) GLEEMAN (10) [noun] A professional singer, bard, or other entertainer. GLEEMEN (10) [noun] A professional singer, bard, or other entertainer. GLEETED (9) GLENOID (9) GLEYING (12) GLIADIN (9) GLIBBER (12) [adjective] Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow. | [adjective] Smooth or slippery. | [adjective] Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued. GLIDERS (9) [noun] The act of gliding. | [noun] A transitional sound, especially a semivowel. | [noun] An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact. GLIDING (10) [verb] To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly. | [verb] To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish. | [verb] To cause to glide. GLIMING (11) GLIMMER (12) [noun] A faint light; a dim glow. | [noun] A flash of light. | [noun] A faint or remote possibility. GLIMPSE (12) [noun] A brief look, glance, or peek. | [noun] A sudden flash. | [noun] A faint idea; an inkling. GLINTED (9) [verb] To flash or gleam briefly. | [verb] To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. | [verb] To cause to flash or gleam; to reflect. GLIOMAS (10) [noun] A tumour that arises from glial cells in the brain or spinal cord GLISTEN (8) [noun] A glistening shine from a wet surface. | [verb] (of a wet or greasy surface) To reflect light with a glittering luster; to sparkle, coruscate, glint or flash. GLISTER (8) [noun] A brilliant flash; a glint | [verb] To gleam, glisten or coruscate. | [noun] A medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository. GLITCHY (16) [adjective] Prone to glitches. | [adjective] Characteristic of glitch or error. GLITTER (8) [noun] A bright, sparkling light; shininess or brilliance. | [noun] A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork. | [noun] Glitz. GLITZES (17) [noun] Garish, brilliant showiness. GLOATED (9) [verb] To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune. | [verb] To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel. GLOATER (8) GLOBATE (10) GLOBING (11) [verb] To become spherical. | [verb] To make spherical. GLOBINS (10) GLOBOID (11) GLOBOSE (10) [adjective] Having a globular form. GLOBOUS (10) GLOBULE (10) [noun] A small round particle of substance; a drop. GLOCHID (14) [noun] A small, detachable, irritant spine occurring in dense clusters in the areoles of certain cacti such as the prickly pear. GLOMERA (10) GLOMMED (13) [verb] To steal, to grab. | [verb] To stare. | [verb] To attach. GLONOIN (8) GLOOMED (11) [verb] To be dark or gloomy. | [verb] To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent. | [verb] To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. GLOPPED (13) [verb] To stare in amazement. | [verb] To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily. | [verb] To swallow greedily. GLORIAS (8) [noun] A lightweight fabric used for umbrellas and dresses. | [noun] A doxology. GLORIED (9) [adjective] Illustrious, honourable | [verb] To exult with joy; to rejoice. | [verb] To boast; to be proud. GLORIES (8) [noun] Great or overwhelming beauty or splendour. | [noun] Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown. | [noun] That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour. GLORIFY (14) [verb] To exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone). | [verb] To make (something) appear to be more glorious than it is; regard something or someone as excellent baselessly. | [verb] To worship or extol. GLOSSAE (8) GLOSSAL (8) [adjective] Of, or relating to the tongue. GLOSSAS (8) GLOSSED (9) [verb] To give a gloss or sheen to. | [verb] To make (something) attractive by deception | [verb] To become shiny. GLOSSER (8) GLOSSES (8) [noun] A surface shine or luster/lustre | [noun] A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance | [noun] A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text. GLOTTAL (8) [noun] A sound made with the glottis | [adjective] Of or relating to the glottis. | [adjective] Articulated with the glottis. GLOTTIC (10) GLOTTIS (8) [noun] The opening between the true vocal cords, located in the larynx. GLOUTED (9) GLOVERS (11) [noun] A person who makes or sells gloves. GLOVING (12) [verb] To catch the ball in a baseball mitt. | [verb] To put a glove or gloves on. | [verb] To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball. GLOWERS (11) [noun] An angry glare or stare. | [verb] To look or stare with anger. | [noun] That which glows or emits light. GLOWFLY (17) GLOWING (12) [verb] To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated. | [verb] To radiate some emotional quality like light. | [verb] To gaze especially passionately at something. GLOZING (18) [verb] To extenuate, explain away, gloss over. | [verb] To use flattering language. | [verb] To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation. GLUCANS (10) [noun] Any polysaccharide that is a polymer of glucose GLUCOSE (10) [noun] A simple monosaccharide (sugar) with a molecular formula of C6H12O6; it is a principle source of energy for cellular metabolism. GLUEING (9) [verb] To join or attach something using glue. | [verb] To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively. GLUEPOT (10) [noun] A pot for holding glue. | [noun] A muddy playing field. GLUGGED (11) [verb] To flow in noisy bursts. | [verb] To quickly swallow liquid. GLUIEST (8) [adjective] Viscous and adhesive, as glue. GLUMMER (12) [adjective] Despondent; moody; sullen GLUTEAL (8) [noun] Any of the muscles of the buttocks, gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus | [adjective] Relating to the buttocks GLUTENS (8) GLUTEUS (8) [noun] One of the several muscles of nates, which arises from a pelvis and inserted into a femur. | [noun] Short for gluteus maximus, the large muscles in the human buttocks. GLUTTED (9) [verb] To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate. | [verb] To eat gluttonously or to satiety. GLUTTON (8) [noun] One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer. | [noun] One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess | [noun] The wolverine, Gulo gulo. GLYCANS (13) [noun] (cabrohydrate) Any polysaccharide or oligosaccharide, especially one that is part of a glycoprotein or glycolipid. GLYCINE (13) [noun] A nonessential amino acid, amino-acetic acid, C2H5NO2 found in most proteins but especially in sugar cane; the simplest amino acid. GLYCINS (13) GLYCOLS (13) [noun] Any aliphatic diol. | [noun] A thick, colourless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds and used as an antifreeze; ethylene glycol. GLYCYLS (16) GLYPHIC (18) GLYPTIC (15) [adjective] Of or pertaining to engraving, especially on precious stones. GNARLED (9) [verb] To knot or twist something. | [verb] To snarl or growl; to gnar. | [adjective] Knotty and misshapen. | [verb] To knot or twist something. GNARRED (9) GNASHED (12) [verb] To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger. | [verb] To grind between the teeth. | [verb] To run away. GNASHES (11) [verb] To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger. | [verb] To grind between the teeth. | [verb] To run away. GNATHAL (11) GNATHIC (13) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the jaw. GNAWERS (11) GNAWING (12) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GNOCCHI (15) [noun] Italian pasta-like dumplings made of potato or semolina. GNOMISH (13) GNOMIST (10) GNOMONS (10) [noun] An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial. | [noun] An object such as a pillar used by an observer to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun (that is, the altitude of the sun when it reaches the observer's meridian), for the purpose of determining the observer's latitude. | [noun] The index of the hour circle of a globe. GNOSTIC (10) [noun] A believer in Gnosticism | [adjective] Of, or relating to, intellectual or spiritual knowledge | [adjective] Of, or relating to Gnosticism GOADING (10) [verb] To prod with a goad. | [verb] To encourage or stimulate. | [verb] To incite or provoke. GOALIES (8) [noun] A goalkeeper or goaltender. GOALING (9) GOANNAS (8) [noun] Any of various monitor lizards native to Australia. GOATEED (9) GOATEES (8) [noun] A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin. GOATISH (11) GOBANGS (11) GOBBETS (12) [noun] A quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch. | [noun] A lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat. | [noun] An extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, discussion, or translation in an examination. GOBBING (13) [verb] To gather into a lump. | [verb] To spit, especially to spit phlegm. | [verb] To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine. GOBBLED (13) [verb] To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up) | [verb] To make the sound of a turkey. GOBBLER (12) [noun] A turkey. | [noun] One who eats food very quickly, without decorum. GOBBLES (12) [noun] Fellatio; blowjob | [noun] An act of eating hastily or greedily. | [verb] To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up) GOBIOID (11) GOBLETS (10) [noun] A drinking vessel with a foot and stem. GOBLINS (10) [noun] One of various hostile supernatural creatures, now especially (fantasy literature) a malevolent and grotesque diminutive humanoid. GOBONEE (10) GODDAMN (12) [adjective] Damned by God. | [adjective] Used as an intensifier. | [interjection] An expression of anger, surprise, intense excitment or frustration. GODDAMS (12) GODDESS (10) [noun] A female deity. | [noun] A woman honored or adored as physically attractive or of superior charm and intelligence. | [noun] A woman of substantial authority or influence. GODDING (11) GODHEAD (13) [noun] Divinity or godhood, divine essence or nature. | [noun] God. | [noun] Any deity or idol. GODHOOD (13) GODLESS (9) [adjective] Not acknowledging any deity or god; without belief in any deity or god. | [adjective] Evil, wicked, worldly. GODLIER (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a god | [adjective] Devoted to a god or God; devout; righteous. | [adjective] Gloriously good. GODLIKE (13) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a god. | [adjective] Characteristic of a god. GODLILY (12) GODLING (10) GODOWNS (12) [noun] A warehouse. GODROON (9) GODSEND (10) [noun] An unexpected good fortune or benefit; a windfall. GODSHIP (14) GODSONS (9) [noun] A male child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent. GODWITS (12) [noun] Any of four species of long-billed, migratory wading birds in the genus Limosa, of the family Scolopacidae. GOFFERS (14) [verb] To make wavy; to crimp. GOGGLED (11) [verb] To stare (at something) with wide eyes. | [verb] To roll the eyes. | [adjective] Wearing goggles. GOGGLER (10) GOGGLES (10) [noun] Protective eyewear set in a flexible frame to fit snugly against the face. | [noun] Blinds for shying horses. | [noun] A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye. | [verb] To stare (at something) with wide eyes. GOGLETS (9) GOITERS (8) [noun] An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland. GOITRES (8) [noun] An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland. GOLDARN (9) GOLDBUG (12) GOLDEST (9) GOLDEYE (12) GOLDURN (9) GOLFERS (11) [noun] Someone who plays golf. GOLFING (12) [verb] To play the game of golf. | [verb] To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf) | [noun] A session of playing golf. GOLIARD (9) GOLOSHE (11) GOMERAL (10) GOMEREL (10) GOMERIL (10) GOMUTIS (10) GONADAL (9) GONADIC (11) GONDOLA (9) [noun] A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice. | [noun] A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo. | [noun] A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel. GONGING (10) [verb] To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong. | [verb] To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device. | [verb] To give an award or medal to. GONIDIA (9) GONIDIC (11) GONIFFS (14) [noun] A thief; a rascal or scoundrel. GONOPHS (13) GOOBERS (10) [noun] The language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe. | [noun] A person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe. | [noun] A native or resident of the state of Georgia in the United States of America. GOODBYE (14) [noun] An utterance of goodbye, the wishing of farewell to someone. | [verb] To say goodbye; to wish somebody farewell on parting. | [interjection] Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing. GOODBYS (14) [noun] An utterance of goodbye, the wishing of farewell to someone. GOODIES (9) [noun] A good character in a story, often a hero. | [noun] A small amount of something good to eat. | [noun] Any small, usually free, item. GOODISH (12) [adjective] Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable. | [adjective] Considerable; goodly. GOODMAN (11) [noun] A familiar appellation of civility. | [noun] A husband; the master of a house or family. GOODMEN (11) [noun] A familiar appellation of civility. | [noun] A husband; the master of a house or family. GOOFIER (11) [adjective] Silly, quirky GOOFILY (14) GOOFING (12) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To engage in mischief. GOOGOLS (9) GOOIEST (8) [adjective] Of or relating to goo | [adjective] Soft, sticky and viscous GOOMBAH (15) [noun] A person of Italian descent. | [noun] A companion, pal, close friend, or associate, used especially among Italian-American men. It sometimes has the connotation of an older friend who acts as a patron, protector or adviser. | [noun] A style of music from Guinea-Bissau which is primarily vocal and percussive. GOOMBAY (15) [noun] (Bahamas) A type of traditional Bahamian drum. | [noun] (Bahamas) A genre of folk music played with this drum. | [noun] (Bahamas) A dance associated with this music genre. GOONEYS (11) GOONIES (8) GOOPIER (10) GOORALS (8) GOOSIER (8) [adjective] Characteristic of a goose; anserine | [adjective] Foolish; silly GOOSING (9) [verb] To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters. | [verb] To stimulate, to spur. | [verb] To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator. GOPHERS (13) [noun] A worker who runs errands; an errand boy. | [noun] A small burrowing rodent, especially in the family Geomyidae. | [noun] The gopher tortoise. GORCOCK (16) [noun] The red grouse. GORGERS (9) [noun] One who gorges | [noun] Someone who is not a Romani, Sinti, Gypsy, or Traveller GORGETS (9) [noun] A piece of armour for the throat. | [noun] A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple. | [noun] An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc. GORGING (10) [noun] The act of one who gorges, or eats to satiety. GORGONS (9) [noun] A vicious female monster from Greek mythology with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. One of the three sisters: Medusa, Stheno and Euryale | [noun] An intimidating, ugly, or disgusting woman; anything hideous or horrid. GORHENS (11) GORIEST (8) [adjective] Covered with blood, very bloody | [adjective] Unpleasant GORILLA (8) [noun] The largest of the apes, native to the forests of central Africa, and known for their trait of knuckle-walking. | [noun] A big and brutish man or a thug; a goon or ruffian. | [noun] A powerful person or organization; a heavyweight or behemoth. GORMAND (11) GORSIER (8) GOSHAWK (18) [noun] Any of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter. GOSLING (9) [noun] A young goose. | [noun] A callow), or foolish and naive, young person. | [noun] A catkin on nut trees and pines. GOSPELS (10) [noun] The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the life, crucifixion, death, resurrection, and teachings of Jesus. | [noun] An account of the life, crucifixion, death, resurrection, and teachings of Jesus, generally written during the first several centuries of the Common Era. | [noun] The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments. GOSPORT (10) GOSSANS (8) GOSSIPS (10) [noun] Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business. | [noun] Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present. | [noun] Idle conversation in general. GOSSIPY (13) [adjective] Prone to gossip. GOSSOON (8) [noun] A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey. GOTHICS (13) GOTHITE (11) GOUACHE (13) [noun] A thick, opaque watercolour paint made with gum containing an inert white pigment to make it opaque. | [noun] A painting made with this paint. GOUGERS (9) GOUGING (10) [verb] To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. | [verb] To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price. | [verb] To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket. GOULASH (11) [noun] A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika. | [noun] A style of play in which the cards are not thoroughly shuffled between consecutive deals, so as to make the suits less evenly distributed between the players. GOURAMI (10) [noun] An edible freshwater fish of the family Osphronemidae. GOURDES (9) [noun] The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes. GOURMET (10) [noun] A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously. | [adjective] (of food and drink) Fine; of superior quality. GOUTIER (8) GOUTILY (11) GOVERNS (11) [verb] To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in. | [verb] To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain. | [verb] To exercise a deciding or determining influence on. GOWANED (12) GOWNING (12) [verb] To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown. GRABBED (13) [verb] To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch. | [verb] To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something). | [verb] To restrain someone; to arrest. GRABBER (12) GRABBLE (12) [noun] A method of fishing using a line with several hooks fastened to it along with a lead weight so that the hooks sit on the bottom. | [verb] To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something. | [verb] To search in a similar way using an implement. GRABENS (10) [noun] An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area. GRACILE (10) [adjective] Lean, slender, thin. | [adjective] Graceful or gracefully slender. GRACING (11) [verb] To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. | [verb] To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour. | [verb] To supply with heavenly grace. GRACKLE (14) [noun] Any of several American blackbirds of the genus Quiscalus, and related genera, having iridescent plumage. | [noun] (formerly) Any of several Asian myna birds of the genus Gracula. GRADATE (9) [verb] To change imperceptibly from one gradation of tone etc. to another. | [verb] To arrange in order of grades. | [verb] To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration. GRADERS (9) [noun] A machine used in road maintenance and construction for leveling large surfaces. | [noun] One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated. | [noun] (in combination) One who belongs to a certain grade at school. GRADINE (9) [noun] A toothed chisel used by sculptors | [noun] Any member like a step, such as the raised back of an altar; a gradin. GRADING (10) [verb] To assign scores to the components of an academic test. | [verb] To assign a score to overall academic performance. | [verb] To organize in grades. GRADINS (9) [noun] Any of a series of terraced steps or seats, as in an arena or an altar. GRADUAL (9) [noun] An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps. | [noun] A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass. | [adjective] Proceeding or advancing by small, slow, regular steps or degrees GRAFTED (12) [verb] To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon. | [verb] To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting. | [verb] To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union. GRAFTER (11) GRAHAMS (13) GRAINED (9) [verb] To feed grain to. | [verb] To make granular; to form into grains. | [verb] To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate. GRAINER (8) GRAMARY (13) GRAMMAR (12) [noun] A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language. | [noun] The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax). | [noun] A book describing the rules of grammar of a language. GRAMMES (12) [noun] Gram (unit of mass) GRAMPUS (12) [noun] The killer whale, Orcinus orca. | [noun] Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus, with a blunt nose. | [noun] The hellbender salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis. GRANARY (11) [noun] A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed. | [noun] A fertile, grain-growing region. GRANDAD (10) [noun] Grandfather | [noun] A familiar or disparaging term of address to an old man. GRANDAM (11) [noun] Grandmother | [noun] Old lady, elderly woman GRANDEE (9) [noun] A high-ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal. | [noun] (by extension) A person of high rank. | [noun] The title for a high ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal. GRANDER (9) [adjective] Of a large size or extent; great. | [adjective] Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent. | [adjective] Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name. GRANDLY (12) [adverb] In a grand manner. | [adverb] To the greatest extent. GRANDMA (11) [noun] Grandmother GRANDPA (11) [noun] Grandfather GRANGER (9) GRANGES (9) [noun] A granary. | [noun] A farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse or manor. | [noun] A lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization. GRANITA (8) [noun] An Italian dessert of fruit purée etc. on crushed ice. GRANITE (8) [noun] A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown. | [noun] Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough. GRANNIE (8) [noun] A grandmother. | [noun] An elderly woman. | [noun] (knots) A granny knot. GRANOLA (8) [noun] A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients. | [adjective] (of a person) Eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment, and having liberal views. GRANTED (9) [verb] (ditransitive) to give (permission or wish) | [verb] (ditransitive) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give. | [verb] To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true. GRANTEE (8) [noun] The person to whom something is granted. GRANTER (8) GRANTOR (8) [noun] A person who grants something. GRANULE (8) [noun] A tiny grain, a small particle. | [noun] A small structure in a cell. | [noun] A particle from 2 to 4 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale GRAPERY (13) GRAPHED (14) [verb] To draw a graph. | [verb] To draw a graph of a function. GRAPHIC (15) [noun] A drawing or picture. | [noun] (mostly in plural) A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc. | [adjective] Drawn, pictorial. GRAPIER (10) GRAPLIN (10) GRAPNEL (10) [noun] A small anchor, having more than two flukes, used for anchoring a small vessel. | [noun] A device with a multiple hook at one end and attached to a rope, which is thrown or hooked over a firm mooring to secure an object attached to the other end of the rope. | [noun] A grappling iron. GRAPPAS (12) [noun] An Italian grape-based spirit of between 80 and 100 proof, made from the distillation of pomace. | [noun] A variety or serving of grappa. GRAPPLE (12) [noun] A close hand-to-hand struggle; the act of grappling. | [verb] To seize something and hold it firmly. | [verb] To wrestle or tussle. | [noun] A tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something. GRASPED (11) [verb] To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand. | [verb] To understand. | [verb] To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance. GRASPER (10) GRASSED (9) [verb] To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.). | [verb] To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities. | [verb] To cover with grass or with turf. GRASSES (8) [noun] Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain. | [noun] Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses. | [noun] A lawn. GRATERS (8) [noun] A tool with which one grates, especially cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump GRATIFY (14) [verb] To please. | [verb] To make content; to satisfy. GRATINE (8) GRATING (9) [verb] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars | [verb] To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater | [verb] To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something GRATINS (8) [noun] The top crust of a dish, consisting of breadcrumbs or grated cheese heated under a grill; the dish itself. GRAUPEL (10) [noun] A precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake. | [noun] The result of this process, a small ball of rime. GRAVELS (11) [verb] To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc. | [verb] To puzzle or annoy | [verb] To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand. GRAVELY (14) [adverb] In a grave or serious manner. | [adjective] Characterised by gravel, pebbles, or small stones. GRAVERS (11) [noun] A burin | [noun] A carver, sculptor, or engraver GRAVEST (11) [verb] To dig. | [verb] To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. | [verb] To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. GRAVIDA (12) GRAVIES (11) [noun] A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked. | [noun] A type of gravy. | [noun] (Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta. GRAVING (12) [verb] To dig. | [verb] To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. | [verb] To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. GRAVITY (14) [noun] The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness. | [noun] The state or condition of being grave; seriousness. | [noun] The lowness of a note. GRAVLAX (18) [noun] Salmon dry-cured in salt, seasoned with dill and sugar, and served usually thinly sliced as an appetizer. GRAVURE (11) [noun] A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder. | [noun] A style of Japanese softcore; glamour photography. GRAYEST (11) [adjective] Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember. | [adjective] Dreary, gloomy. | [adjective] Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality. GRAYING (12) [verb] To become gray. | [verb] To cause to become gray. | [verb] To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region) GRAYISH (14) GRAYLAG (12) [noun] A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak. GRAYOUT (11) GRAZERS (17) GRAZIER (17) [noun] One who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property. | [noun] The owner of a large property on which sheep or cattle graze. GRAZING (18) [verb] To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. | [verb] To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture) | [verb] To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. GREASED (9) [verb] To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate. | [verb] To bribe. | [verb] To cause to go easily; to facilitate. GREASER (8) [noun] Someone or something that greases (applies grease). | [noun] A mechanic. | [noun] A biker, a tough. GREASES (8) [noun] Animal fat in a melted or soft state | [noun] (extension) Any oily or fatty matter. | [noun] Shorn but not yet cleansed wool GREATEN (8) GREATER (8) [adjective] Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big. | [adjective] Of larger size or more importance than others of its kind. | [adjective] (qualifying nouns of family relationship) Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s). [see Derived terms] GREATLY (11) [adverb] To a great extent or degree. | [adverb] Nobly; magnanimously. GREAVED (12) GREAVES (11) [noun] The unmeltable residue left after animal fat has been rendered. | [noun] A bush; a tree; a grove. | [noun] A bough; a branch. GRECIZE (19) [verb] To render Grecian, or cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form. | [verb] To translate into Greek. | [verb] To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech. GREEING (9) GREENED (9) [verb] To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. | [verb] To become or grow green in colour. | [verb] To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.). GREENER (8) [adjective] Having green as its color. | [adjective] (of people) Sickly, unwell. | [adjective] Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen. GREENIE (8) [noun] An environmentalist; someone who shows concern for the environment. | [noun] (by extension) A member of the Green Party. | [noun] (Wyoming) A person from Colorado; after the color of the Colorado license plate. GREENLY (11) GREENTH (11) GREETED (9) [verb] To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or over the phone/internet | [verb] To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy) | [verb] To accost; to address. GREETER (8) [noun] A person who greets people on their arrival. | [noun] (tourism) A volunteer who shows tourists around their home city or region for free. | [noun] One who weeps or mourns. GREIGES (9) GREISEN (8) [noun] A highly altered granitic rock containing quartz and mica. GREMIAL (10) GREMLIN (10) [noun] A mythical creature reputed to be mischievously inclined to damage or dismantle machinery. | [noun] (by extension) Any mysterious, unknown source of trouble or mischief. | [noun] A young inexperienced surfer. GREMMIE (12) GRENADE (9) [noun] A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched from a grenade launcher. | [noun] A pomegranate. | [noun] A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top. GREYEST (11) [adjective] Having a color. | [adjective] Having a particular color or kind of color. | [adjective] Having prominent colors; colorful. GREYHEN (14) GREYING (12) [verb] To become grey. | [verb] To cause to become grey. | [verb] To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region. GREYISH (14) GREYLAG (12) [noun] A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak. GRIBBLE (12) [noun] Any of various wood-boring marine crustaceans of the genus Limnoria, especially Limnoria lignorum, which cause damage to underwater wooden structures. GRIDDER (10) [noun] One who makes use of grids. GRIDDLE (10) [noun] A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked. | [verb] To use a griddle, cook on a griddle GRIDING (10) GRIEVED (12) [verb] To cause sorrow or distress to. | [verb] To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for. | [verb] To experience grief. GRIEVER (11) GRIEVES (11) [verb] To cause sorrow or distress to. | [verb] To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for. | [verb] To experience grief. GRIFFES (14) GRIFFIN (14) [noun] A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle. | [noun] A large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. | [noun] An English variety of apple. GRIFFON (14) [noun] A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle. | [noun] A large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. | [noun] An English variety of apple. GRIFTED (12) [verb] To obtain illegally, as by con game. | [verb] To obtain money illegally. | [verb] To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means. GRIFTER (11) [noun] A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games. GRIGRIS (9) GRILLED (9) [verb] To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue. | [verb] To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – broil, salamander. | [verb] To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly. | [adjective] Fitted with a grille. GRILLER (8) GRILLES (8) [noun] A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack. | [noun] On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it. | [noun] A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English GRILSES (8) [noun] A young salmon after its first return from the sea. GRIMACE (12) [noun] A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain. | [noun] Affectation, pretence. | [verb] To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces. GRIMIER (10) [adjective] Stained or covered with grime. | [adjective] From the urban musical genre called grime. GRIMILY (13) GRIMING (11) [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRIMMER (12) [adjective] Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding | [adjective] Rigid and unrelenting | [adjective] Ghastly or sinister GRINDED (10) GRINDER (9) [noun] One who grinds something, such as the teeth. | [noun] (anatomical) A molar. | [noun] A power tool with a spinning abrasive disc, used for grinding, smoothing, and shaping materials, usually metal. GRINGOS (9) [noun] A white person from an English-speaking country, particularly the United States. GRINNED (9) [verb] To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth. | [verb] To express by grinning. | [verb] To show the teeth, like a snarling dog. GRINNER (8) GRIPERS (10) GRIPIER (10) GRIPING (11) [verb] To complain; to whine. | [verb] To annoy or bother. | [verb] To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm. GRIPMAN (12) GRIPMEN (12) GRIPPED (13) [verb] To take hold of, particularly with the hand. | [verb] To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense. | [verb] To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief. GRIPPER (12) GRIPPES (12) GRIPPLE (12) GRISKIN (12) [noun] A lean cut of meat from the loin of a pig. | [noun] The bones, particularly the spine, of a pig. GRISONS (8) [noun] A small, carnivorous South American mammal, of the genus Galictis, somewhat resembling a weasel. GRISTLE (8) [noun] Cartilage; now especially: cartilage present, as a tough substance, in meat. | [noun] (from obsolete scientific theory) Bone not yet hardened by age and hard work. GRISTLY (11) [adjective] Resembling or containing gristle. GRITTED (9) [verb] Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger. | [verb] To cover with grit. | [verb] To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. GRIVETS (11) [noun] An Old World monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face. GRIZZLE (26) [noun] A dark grey colour. | [noun] Grey hair. | [noun] A grey wig. | [verb] To cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child. GRIZZLY (29) [noun] A grizzly bear. | [noun] In hydraulic mining, a grating used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices. | [adjective] Grey-haired, greyish. | [adjective] Crying or whingeing in a bad-tempered or irritable way. GROANED (9) [verb] To make a groan. | [verb] To strive after earnestly, as if with groans. GROANER (8) GROCERS (10) [noun] A person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery. GROCERY (13) [noun] (usually groceries) retail foodstuffs and other household supplies. | [noun] A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store. | [verb] To go grocery shopping. GROGRAM (11) [noun] A strong, rough fabric made up of a mixture of silk, and mohair or wool. | [noun] A garment made from this fabric. GROINED (9) [verb] To deliver a blow to the genitals of. | [verb] To build with groins. | [verb] (literary) To hollow out, to excavate. GROMMET (12) [noun] A reinforced eyelet, or a small metal or plastic ring used to reinforce an eyelet. | [noun] A ring formed of a single strand of rope, laid in three times round, fastening the upper edge of a sail to its stay. | [noun] (flags) An eyelet at the hoist end of a flag, used to fasten the flag to its halyard. GROOMED (11) [verb] To attend to one's appearance and clothing. | [verb] To care for (horses or other animals) by brushing and cleaning them. | [verb] To prepare (someone) for election or appointment. GROOMER (10) GROOVED (12) [verb] To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow. | [verb] To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music. | [adjective] Having grooves GROOVER (11) GROOVES (11) [noun] A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression. | [noun] A fixed routine. | [noun] The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit. GROPERS (10) [noun] Agent noun of grope; one who gropes. | [noun] An employee of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially those who perform inspections on passengers. | [noun] Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. GROPING (11) [verb] To feel with or use the hands; to handle. | [verb] To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see. | [verb] To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually. GROSSED (9) [verb] To earn money, not including expenses. GROSSER (8) [adjective] (of behaviour considered to be wrong) Highly or conspicuously offensive. | [adjective] (of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts. | [adjective] Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed. GROSSES (8) [noun] Twelve dozen = 144. | [noun] The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net. | [noun] The bulk, the mass, the masses. GROSSLY (11) [adverb] In a gross manner; without delicacy. | [adverb] Roughly; approximately; inexactly; sketchily. GROTTOS (8) [noun] A small cave. | [noun] An artificial cavern-like retreat. | [noun] A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure. GROUCHY (16) [adjective] (originally student slang) Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain. GROUNDS (9) [noun] The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground. | [noun] Terrain. | [noun] Soil, earth. | [noun] Basis or justification for something. | [noun] The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered. GROUPED (11) [verb] To put together to form a group. | [verb] To come together to form a group. GROUPER (10) [noun] Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas. | [noun] One who groups things. GROUPIE (10) [noun] A fan, especially a young female fan of a male singer or rock group; a person who seeks intimacy (most often physical, sometimes emotional) with a celebrity, usually a rock 'n' roll artist or band member. | [noun] A group photo including the photographer; a group self-portrait. GROUSED (9) [verb] To seek or shoot grouse. | [verb] To complain or grumble. GROUSER (8) GROUSES (8) [noun] Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere. | [noun] A cause for complaint. GROUTED (9) [verb] To insert mortar between tiles. GROUTER (8) [noun] One who grouts. GROVELS (11) [verb] To be prone on the ground. | [verb] To crawl. | [verb] To abase oneself before another person. GROWERS (11) [noun] A farmer; one who grows things. | [noun] Something that grows. | [noun] Someone or something who becomes more likeable over time GROWING (12) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. GROWLED (12) [verb] To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. | [verb] Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound. | [verb] To send a user a message via the Growl software library. GROWLER (11) [noun] A person, creature or thing that growls. | [noun] A horse-drawn cab with four wheels. | [noun] A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water. GROWNUP (13) [noun] An adult (used especially by children). | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or suitable for adults. | [adjective] Adult; fully developed; mature. GROWTHS (14) [noun] An increase in size, number, value, or strength. | [noun] The act of growing, getting bigger or higher. | [noun] Something that grows or has grown. GROWTHY (17) GROYNES (11) [noun] An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater. GRUBBED (13) [verb] To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food. | [verb] To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up. | [verb] To supply with food. GRUBBER (12) [noun] One who grubs. | [noun] A machine or tool of the nature of a grub axe, grub hook, etc. | [noun] An attacking short distance kick in behind the defence in which the ball is bounced along the ground, using the uneven bounce of the ball to make it difficult for the defence to retrieve. GRUDGED (11) [verb] To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something). | [verb] To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied. | [verb] To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. GRUDGER (10) GRUDGES (10) [noun] Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to a past misdeed or mistreatment. | [verb] To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something). | [verb] To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied. GRUELED (9) GRUELER (8) GRUFFED (15) GRUFFER (14) [adjective] Having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature. | [adjective] Hoarse-voiced. GRUFFLY (17) GRUGRUS (9) GRUMBLE (12) [noun] A low thundering, rumbling or growling sound. | [noun] The sound made by a hungry stomach. | [noun] A surly complaint. GRUMBLY (15) [adjective] Given to grumbling GRUMMER (12) GRUMMET (12) GRUMOSE (10) GRUMOUS (10) GRUMPED (13) [verb] To complain. | [verb] To be grumpy. GRUMPHY (18) GRUNGES (9) GRUNION (8) [noun] Either of two small fish, of the genus Leuresthes, found along the coast of Mexico and southern California, that spawn in the wet sand at certain high tides. GRUNTED (9) [verb] (of a person) To make a grunt or grunts. | [verb] (of a pig) To make a grunt or grunts. | [verb] To break wind; to fart. GRUNTER (8) [noun] One who grunts. | [noun] Any of a group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when caught. | [noun] A pig. GRUNTLE (8) GRUSHIE (11) GRUTTEN (8) GRUYERE (11) [noun] Gruyère cheese GRYPHON (16) [noun] A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle. | [noun] A large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. | [noun] An English variety of apple. GUAIACS (10) GUANACO (10) [noun] A South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae. GUANASE (8) GUANAYS (11) GUANINE (8) [noun] A substance first obtained from guano; it is a nucleic base and pairs with cytosine in DNA and RNA (by means of three hydrogen bonds). GUANINS (8) GUARANI (8) [noun] The currency of Paraguay, divided into 100 céntimos GUARDED (10) [verb] To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend. | [verb] To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like. | [verb] To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety. GUARDER (9) GUAYULE (11) [noun] Parthenium argentatum, a flowering shrub in the aster family. GUDGEON (10) [noun] A small freshwater fish, Gobio gobio, that is native to Eurasia. | [noun] Any of various similar small fish of the family Eleotridae, often used as bait. | [noun] A person apt to take the bait; one easily cheated or duped; also, an idiot. | [noun] A circular or cylindrical fitting, often made of metal, into which a pin or pintle fits to create a hinge or pivoting joint. GUENONS (8) [noun] An Old World monkey of the genus Cercopithecus. GUERDON (9) [noun] A reward, prize or recompense for a service; an accolade. | [verb] To give such a reward to. GUESSED (9) [verb] To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion. | [verb] To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly. | [verb] To suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility). GUESSER (8) GUESSES (8) [verb] To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion. | [verb] To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly. | [verb] To suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility). GUESTED (9) [verb] To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast | [verb] As a musician, to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band) | [verb] To receive or entertain hospitably. GUFFAWS (17) [noun] A boisterous laugh. | [verb] To laugh boisterously. GUGGLED (11) GUGGLES (10) GUGLETS (9) GUIDERS (9) [noun] One who guides. GUIDING (10) [verb] To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. | [verb] To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot. | [verb] To exert control or influence over someone or something. GUIDONS (9) [noun] A small pennant or banner carried by infantry soldiers to direct troop movement. | [noun] A soldier assigned to carry such a banner. GUILDER (9) [noun] The former currency unit in the Netherlands, divided into 100 cents. | [noun] The former currency unit in Suriname, divided into 100 cents. | [noun] The current currency unit in the islands in the former Netherlands Antilles, divided into 100 cents. | [noun] One who gilds; especially one whose occupation is to overlay things with gold. GUILING (9) GUIMPES (12) [noun] Gimp; a narrow flat braid or reinforced cord of fabric used for ornamental trimming. | [noun] A kind of short, high-necked blouse with sleeves of the late Victorian era, designed to be worn under a low-cut dress, jumper, or pinafore dress. | [noun] A kind of short chemisette or yoke insert made of lace, embroidery, or the like, worn with a low-necked dress. GUINEAS (8) [noun] A person of Italian descent. | [noun] A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings. | [noun] Any of several African birds of the family Numididae (6 species) resembling partridges. GUIPURE (10) [noun] A kind of bobbin lace that connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh. GUISARD (9) GUISING (9) GUITARS (8) [noun] A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick). | [noun] Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard. | [verb] To play the guitar. GULCHES (13) [noun] A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully. | [noun] An act of gulching or gulping. | [noun] A glutton. GULDENS (9) [noun] An old currency of the Netherlands (and its overseas territory the Netherlands Antilles). GULFIER (11) GULFING (12) GULLETS (8) [noun] The throat or esophagus. | [noun] The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested. | [noun] The space between the teeth of a saw blade. GULLEYS (11) [noun] A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside. | [noun] A small valley. | [noun] A drop kerb. GULLIED (9) [verb] To flow noisily. | [verb] To wear away into a gully or gullies. GULLIES (8) [noun] A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside. | [noun] A small valley. | [noun] A drop kerb. GULLING (9) [verb] To deceive or cheat. | [verb] To mislead. | [verb] To trick and defraud. GULPERS (10) [noun] One who gulps. | [noun] A gulper eel. GULPIER (10) GULPING (11) [verb] To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow. | [verb] To react nervously by swallowing. | [noun] The action of one who gulps. GUMBOIL (12) [noun] A small suppurating inflamed spot on the gum. GUMBOOT (12) [noun] A type of boot made of rubber. | [noun] A style of popular music traditionally associated with gold miners. | [noun] Generic black tea. GUMDROP (13) [noun] A small chewy candy made with corn syrup, gelatin and some flavouring oils or powders. GUMLESS (10) GUMLIKE (14) GUMMATA (12) [noun] A soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis. GUMMERS (12) GUMMIER (12) [adjective] Showing the gums. | [adjective] Resembling gum (the substance). | [adjective] Covered with gum or a substance resembling gum. GUMMING (13) [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. | [verb] (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to. GUMMITE (12) GUMMOSE (12) GUMMOUS (12) GUMSHOE (13) [noun] A sneaker or rubber overshoe. | [noun] A detective. | [verb] To act as a detective. GUMTREE (10) [noun] A eucalyptus tree. GUMWEED (14) GUMWOOD (14) GUNBOAT (10) [noun] Any of the various types of small armed vessels GUNDOGS (10) [noun] A breed of dog used by hunters to find, flush out and retrieve birds and other game. GUNFIRE (11) [noun] Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report. | [noun] The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets. | [noun] The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun. GUNITES (8) GUNLESS (8) GUNLOCK (14) [noun] A mechanism fitted to a cannon that fires it when a cord is pulled. GUNNELS (8) [noun] A small eel-shaped marine fish of the family Pholidae, especially Pholis gunnellus. | [noun] The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck. GUNNERS (8) [noun] Artillery soldier, or such who holds private rank. Abbreviated Gnr. | [noun] A person who operates a gun. | [noun] An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition. GUNNERY (11) [noun] The science of guns and gunfire including aspects of bullet flight and impact. | [noun] The design and manufacture of guns, particularly those of a large caliber. | [noun] The firing of guns GUNNIES (8) [noun] A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp. | [noun] A gunny sack. | [noun] A gunnery sergeant. GUNNING (9) GUNPLAY (13) [noun] The discharge of firearms, usually with violent intent and in confrontations. | [noun] (BDSM) A sexual practice involving the use of a (usually unloaded) firearm for physical and mental stimulation. GUNROOM (10) [noun] A room where guns are stored. | [noun] Living quarters for junior officers and midshipmen on a warship (hence gunroom officers). In the past it was usually set in the forecastle. GUNSELS (8) [noun] (dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother. | [noun] A promiscuous woman, slut, whore. | [noun] A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman. GUNSHIP (13) [noun] A ship equipped with heavy artillery. | [noun] An armed helicopter tasked to attack the enemy. | [noun] (air force) A transport airplane equipped with large calibre guns typical of armoured fighting vehicles GUNSHOT (11) [noun] The act of discharging a firearm. | [noun] The sound made by a discharging firearm. | [noun] The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun; the reach or range of a gun. GUNWALE (11) [noun] The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck. GUPPIES (12) [noun] A tiny freshwater fish, Poecilia reticulata, popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males. | [noun] By extension, any tiny fish. | [noun] A tube holding paintballs before they are loaded into the gun. GURGING (10) GURGLED (10) [verb] To flow with a bubbling sound. | [verb] To make such a sound. GURGLES (9) [noun] A gurgling sound. GURGLET (9) GURNARD (9) [noun] Any of various marine fish of the family Triglidae that have a large armored head and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom. GURNETS (8) GURNEYS (11) [noun] A stretcher having wheeled legs. GURRIES (8) GURSHES (11) GUSHERS (11) [noun] One who gushes (makes an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment). | [noun] An oil well that has a natural flow and so requires no pumping. GUSHIER (11) [adjective] Gushing; effusive and often emotional. | [adjective] Tending to gush, to produce a large flow of liquid. GUSHILY (14) GUSHING (12) [verb] To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. | [verb] To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume. | [verb] (especially of a woman) To ejaculate during orgasm. GUSSETS (8) [noun] A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet. | [noun] A small piece of mail, providing some protection where two plates of armor are joined, usually at the elbows, under the shoulders, and behind the knees. | [noun] (machinery) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler. GUSSIED (9) GUSSIES (8) [verb] To dress up or decorate in a showy way GUSTIER (8) [adjective] (of wind) Blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous. | [adjective] (by extension, metaphoric) Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression | [adjective] (metaphoric) Bombastic, verbose. GUSTILY (11) GUSTING (9) [verb] To blow in gusts. | [verb] To taste. | [verb] To have a relish for. GUSTOES (8) GUTLESS (8) [adjective] Cowardly; lacking courage or morals. GUTLIKE (12) GUTSIER (8) [adjective] Marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; having guts | [adjective] Not showing due respect GUTSILY (11) GUTTATE (8) [verb] To exude drops of xylem sap on the edges of leaves. | [adjective] Shaped like, or resembling drops. | [adjective] Spotted. GUTTERS (8) [noun] A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water. | [noun] A ditch along the side of a road. | [noun] A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough. GUTTERY (11) GUTTIER (8) GUTTING (9) [verb] To eviscerate. | [verb] To remove or destroy the most important parts of. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The remains after gutting a fish. GUTTLED (9) GUTTLER (8) GUTTLES (8) GUYLINE (11) GUZZLED (27) [verb] To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto. | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually. | [verb] (by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst. GUZZLER (26) [noun] Somebody or something which guzzles. GUZZLES (26) [verb] To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto. | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually. | [verb] (by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst. GWEDUCK (18) GWEDUCS (14) GYMNAST (13) [noun] One who performs gymnastics GYNECIA (13) GYNECIC (15) GYPLURE (13) GYPPERS (15) GYPPING (16) [verb] (sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately. 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GAMBESON (13) GAMBIERS (13) GAMBLERS (13) [noun] One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles. | [noun] One who takes significant risks. GAMBLING (14) [verb] To take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome. | [verb] To play risky games, especially casino games, for monetary gain. | [verb] To risk (something) for potential gain. GAMBOGES (14) GAMBOLED (14) [verb] To move about playfully; to frolic. | [verb] To do a forward roll. GAMBRELS (13) [noun] The hind leg of a horse. | [noun] (chiefly historical and obsolete outside dialectal) A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering. | [noun] A gambrel roof. GAMBUSIA (13) [noun] Any of several live-bearing freshwater fish, of the genus Gambusia, that feed on the larva of mosquitos and are used to control them. GAMECOCK (19) [noun] A fighting cock: a rooster used in cockfighting. GAMELANS (11) [noun] A genre of music of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs and a bamboo flute (called a siuling). | [noun] The name of the ensemble performing this style of music. GAMELIKE (15) GAMENESS (11) GAMESMAN (13) GAMESMEN (13) GAMESOME (13) [adjective] Full of sport; playful GAMESTER (11) [noun] A person who plays games. | [noun] One who plays video games. | [noun] A gambler. GAMINESS (11) GAMMADIA (14) GAMMIEST (13) [adjective] Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs). GAMMONED (14) [verb] To cure bacon by salting. | [verb] To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone). | [verb] To lash with ropes (on a ship). GAMMONER (13) GAMODEME (14) GANACHES (14) [noun] A rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze. GANDERED (11) [verb] Ramble, wander GANGBANG (13) [noun] Sexual intercourse involving more than two persons, especially with a high proportion of men. | [noun] Gang rape. | [noun] The act of a street gang attacking random people on the streets and/or committing gang crimes. GANGLAND (11) [noun] The underworld of organized crime. GANGLIAL (10) GANGLIAR (10) GANGLIER (10) [adjective] Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness. GANGLING (11) [adjective] Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful. | [noun] A member of a gang. GANGLION (10) [noun] An encapsulated collection of nerve-cell bodies, located outside the brain and spinal cord. | [noun] Any of certain masses of gray matter in the brain, as the basal ganglia. | [noun] (by extension) A centre of intellectual or industrial force, activity, etc. GANGPLOW (15) GANGRELS (10) GANGRENE (10) [noun] The necrosis or rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply. | [noun] A damaging or corrupting influence. | [verb] To produce gangrene in. GANGSTER (10) [noun] A member of a criminal or street gang. | [noun] A member of a professional criminal organization; a racketeer. | [verb] To act like a gangster; to commit street crime or run a racket. GANGWAYS (16) [noun] A passageway through which to enter or leave, such as one between seating areas in an auditorium, or between two buildings. | [noun] An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship. | [noun] A temporary passageway, such as one made of planks. 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GARGLERS (10) GARGLING (11) [verb] To clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs | [verb] To make a sound like the one made while gargling | [verb] To clean a specific part of the body by gargling (almost always throat or mouth) GARGOYLE (13) [noun] A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters. | [noun] Any decorative carved grotesque figure on a building. | [noun] A fictional winged monster. GARIGUES (10) GARISHLY (15) GARLANDS (10) [noun] A wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration. | [noun] An accolade or mark of honour. | [noun] A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe. GARLICKY (18) [adjective] Tasting or smelling of garlic. GARMENTS (11) [noun] A single item of clothing. | [noun] Short for temple garment. 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GARROTED (10) GARROTER (9) GARROTES (9) [noun] An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation | [noun] Something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation | [verb] To execute by strangulation GARROTTE (9) [noun] A cord, wire or similar used for strangulation. | [noun] An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation. | [verb] To execute by strangulation. GARTERED (10) GASALIER (9) GASELIER (9) [noun] A gas-powered chandelier. GASHOUSE (12) GASIFIED (13) [adjective] Converted into a gas | [verb] To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes. GASIFIER (12) GASIFIES (12) [verb] To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes. GASIFORM (14) GASKINGS (14) GASLIGHT (13) [noun] A lamp which operates by burning piped illuminating gas. | [noun] The light produced by the burning gas in such a lamp. | [verb] To manipulate (someone) psychologically such that they question their own memory, perception, and sanity, thereby evoking in them cognitive dissonance and low self-esteem. GASOGENE (10) GASOHOLS (12) GASOLENE (9) [noun] A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, mainly used as a motor fuel; petrol. | [noun] Any specific kind of gasoline. GASOLIER (9) [noun] A gas-powered chandelier. GASOLINE (9) [noun] A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, mainly used as a motor fuel; petrol. | [noun] Any specific kind of gasoline. | [adjective] Made from or using gasoline. GASSIEST (9) [adjective] Having the nature of, or containing, gas. | [adjective] Of food or drink: tending to cause flatulence. | [adjective] Tending to be long-winded or wordy, especially in a boastful and vain manner. GASSINGS (10) GASTIGHT (13) [adjective] Impermeable to gases GASTNESS (9) GASTRAEA (9) GASTREAS (9) GASTRINS (9) GASTRULA (9) [noun] A stage in the development of embryos of most animals consisting of a three-layered sac of ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm. GASWORKS (16) [noun] A factory where coal is converted to coal gas and coke. GATEFOLD (13) [noun] An overlarge page that is folded into a book or magazine; a foldout GATELESS (9) GATELIKE (13) GATEPOST (11) [noun] A vertical post from which a gate is hung/attached. 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GAUNTEST (9) [adjective] Lean, angular and bony | [adjective] Haggard, drawn and emaciated | [adjective] Bleak, barren and desolate GAUNTLET (9) [noun] Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat. | [noun] A long glove covering the wrist. | [noun] A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying. | [noun] Two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal as punishment GAUZIEST (18) [adjective] Having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy. | [adjective] Light; giving the effect of haze. GAVELING (13) [verb] To divide or distribute according to the gavel system. | [verb] To use a gavel. GAVELLED (13) [verb] To divide or distribute according to the gavel system. | [verb] To use a gavel. GAVELOCK (18) GAVOTTED (13) GAVOTTES (12) [noun] A French dance, in either 4/4 or 2/2 time. 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GAZUMPED (23) [verb] To swindle; to extort. | [verb] To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one. | [verb] To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer. GAZUMPER (22) GEARCASE (11) GEARINGS (10) GEARLESS (9) GEEKIEST (13) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a geek. GEEPOUND (12) GELATINE (9) [noun] A protein derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen extracted from animal skin, bones, cartilage, ligaments, etc. | [noun] An edible jelly made from this material. | [noun] A thin, translucent membrane used as a filter for photography or for theatrical lighting effects. GELATING (10) GELATINS (9) [noun] A protein derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen extracted from animal skin, bones, cartilage, ligaments, etc. | [noun] An edible jelly made from this material. | [noun] A thin, translucent membrane used as a filter for photography or for theatrical lighting effects. GELATION (9) [noun] The formation of a solid by cooling; freezing | [noun] The formation of a gel, especially from a sol GELDINGS (11) [noun] A castrated male horse. | [noun] Any castrated male animal. | [noun] A eunuch. GELIDITY (13) [noun] The state or quality of being gelid. GELLANTS (9) GELSEMIA (11) GEMINATE (11) [noun] A doubled or repeated letter or speech sound. | [verb] To arrange in pairs. | [verb] To occur in pairs. GEMMATED (14) GEMMATES (13) GEMMIEST (13) GEMMULES (13) [noun] A small gemma or bud of dormant embryonic cells produced by some freshwater sponges. | [noun] A hypothetical particle once thought to be the basis of heredity according to pangenesis theory. GEMOLOGY (15) [noun] The art and science of gems GEMSBOKS (17) [noun] A large African antelope (Oryx gazella). GEMSBUCK (19) GEMSTONE (11) [noun] A gem, usually made of minerals. GENDARME (12) [noun] A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties. | [noun] Policeman. | [noun] A rock pinnacle on a mountain ridge. GENDERED (11) [verb] To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender. | [verb] To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender. | [verb] To engender. GENERALS (9) [noun] A general fact or proposition; a generality. | [noun] The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces. | [noun] A great strategist or tactician. GENERATE (9) [verb] To bring into being; give rise to. | [verb] To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process. | [verb] To procreate, beget. GENERICS (11) [noun] A product sold under a generic name. | [noun] A wine that is a blend of several wines, or made from a blend of several grape varieties. | [noun] (grammar) A term that specifies neither male nor female. GENEROUS (9) [adjective] Noble in behaviour or actions; principled, not petty; kind, magnanimous. | [adjective] Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed. | [adjective] Large, more than ample, copious. GENETICS (11) [noun] The branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics, in particular chromosomes and DNA. | [noun] The genetic makeup of a specific individual or species. GENETTES (9) GENIALLY (12) GENIPAPS (13) [noun] The North and South American tree Genipa americana of the family Rubiaceae. | [noun] The fruit of this tree, oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice. GENITALS (9) [noun] External sex organs. | [noun] A collection of external sex organs. GENITIVE (12) [noun] (grammar) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession. | [noun] (grammar) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession. | [adjective] (grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses a quality, origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English. GENITORS (9) [noun] A biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring. | [noun] A generator; an originator | [noun] (in the plural) The genitals GENITURE (9) [noun] Birth; begetting. 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GENSENGS (10) GENTIANS (9) [noun] Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers. | [noun] The dried roots and rhizome of a European gentian (Gentiana lutea), used as a tonic. GENTILES (9) [noun] A non-Jewish person. | [noun] (grammar) A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country. GENTLEST (9) [adjective] Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition. | [adjective] Soft and mild rather than hard or severe. | [adjective] Docile and easily managed. GENTLING (10) [verb] To become gentle | [verb] To ennoble | [verb] (animal husbandry) to break; to tame; to domesticate GENTRICE (11) GENTRIES (9) GENTRIFY (15) [verb] To renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes (often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents) GEODESIC (12) [noun] The shortest line between two points on a specific surface. | [noun] (spherical geometry) A segment of a great circle. | [noun] A course allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course that causes tangent vectors to remain tangent vectors throughout that course (a straight curve, a line that is straight). GEODETIC (12) [adjective] Of or relating to geodesy; geodesic. GEODUCKS (16) [noun] The species of large saltwater clam Panopea generosa, native to the northeast Pacific coasts from Alaska to Washington State, distinguished by its deep burrowing and long unprotected siphon; a member of the species; its flesh as a seafood. | [noun] Other species of Panopea, especially Panopea zelandica, native to the coasts of New Zealand. GEOGNOSY (13) GEOLOGER (10) GEOLOGIC (12) [adjective] Of, or relating to geology or a geologic time scale. GEOMANCY (16) [noun] A method of divination which interprets markings on the ground or how handfuls of dirt land when tossed. GEOMETER (11) [noun] A mathematician who specializes in geometry. | [noun] Any species of geometrid moth (family Geometridae). GEOMETRY (14) [noun] The branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships. | [noun] (often qualified in combination) A mathematical system that deals with spatial relationships and that is built on a particular set of axioms; a subbranch of geometry which deals with such a system or systems. | [noun] The observed or specified spatial attributes of an object, etc. GEOPHAGY (18) [noun] The practice of eating earthy substances such as clay and chalk, often thought to augment a mineral-deficient diet. GEOPHONE (14) GEOPHYTE (17) GEOPONIC (13) GEOPROBE (13) GEORGICS (12) [noun] A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating land, etc. GEOTAXES (16) GEOTAXIS (16) [noun] A living creature's ability to move by orienting itself by gravitational forces | [noun] A downward movement GERANIAL (9) [noun] One of the two isomers of citral GERANIOL (9) [noun] A monoterpenoid alcohol found in the essential oils of rose, palmarosa and citronella GERANIUM (11) [noun] Any flowering plant of the genus Geranium, the cranesbills, of family Geraniaceae. | [noun] The common name for flowering plants of the genus Pelargonium. | [noun] A bright red color tinted with orange, like that of a scarlet geranium. GERARDIA (10) GERBERAS (11) [noun] A daisy of the genus Gerbera. GERBILLE (11) GERENUKS (13) [noun] A type of long-necked gazelle, Litocranius walleri, native to central and eastern Africa. GERMANIC (13) [adjective] Of or containing germanium. | [adjective] Containing germanium with a valence of 4. GERMFREE (14) GERMIEST (11) [adjective] That carries germs. GERMINAL (11) [adjective] Relating to spring | [adjective] Pertaining, similar, or belonging to a germ. | [adjective] Relating to a plant ovary GERONTIC (11) [adjective] Of or pertaining to old age or the elderly. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to senescent animals or plants. GESNERIA (9) GESTALTS (9) [noun] A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being) | [noun] Shape, form GESTAPOS (11) GESTATED (10) [verb] To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery. | [verb] (by analogy) To develop an idea. 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GHERAOES (12) GHERKINS (16) [noun] A small cucumber, often pickled whole. | [noun] The penis. GHETTOED (13) [verb] To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto. GHETTOES (12) [noun] An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) | [noun] An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race. | [noun] An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. GHILLIES (12) [noun] A low-cut type of shoe with decorative lacing. | [noun] A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief. | [noun] A fishing and hunting guide; a man or boy who attends to a person who is fishing or hunting, especially in Scotland. GHOSTIER (12) GHOSTING (13) [verb] To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition. | [verb] To die; to expire. | [verb] To ghostwrite. GHOULIES (12) GHOULISH (15) [adjective] Of or pertaining to ghouls. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing. | [adjective] Fascinated by corpses. GIANTESS (9) [noun] A female giant. GIANTISM (11) [noun] The quality or state of being gigantic; being of abnormally large size. | [noun] A condition where there is over-production of growth hormone by the pituitary gland in a child before the bone growth plates close, resulting in excessive long bone growth, accompanied by muscular weakness and sexual impotence. GIBBERED (14) [verb] To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently. GIBBETED (14) [verb] To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet. | [verb] To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn. GIBBSITE (13) [noun] A mineral with monoclinic crystals, usually white but can have different colors, Al(OH)3. GIBINGLY (15) GIDDIEST (11) [adjective] Dizzy, feeling dizzy or unsteady and as if about to fall down. | [adjective] Causing dizziness: causing dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness. | [adjective] Lightheartedly silly, or joyfully elated. GIDDYING (15) [verb] To make dizzy or unsteady. | [verb] To reel; to whirl. GIFTEDLY (16) GIFTLESS (12) GIFTWARE (15) [noun] Items designed to be bought as gifts GIGABITS (12) [noun] 109 bits, a thousand million (1,000,000,000) bits. | [noun] 230 (1,073,741,824) bits. GIGABYTE (15) [noun] (SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB | [noun] A gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes. GIGANTIC (12) [adjective] Very large. | [adjective] In the manner of a giant. GIGATONS (10) [noun] A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many billion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy. | [noun] One billion tons. GIGAWATT (13) [noun] One thousand million (109) watts, abbreviated as GW. GIGGLERS (11) GIGGLIER (11) [adjective] Prone to giggling. GIGGLING (12) [verb] To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way. | [noun] The act of producing giggles; high-pitched laughter GILBERTS (11) GILDHALL (13) GILDINGS (11) GILLNETS (9) [noun] A vertical net, often resting on the sea floor, which entangles fish in the netting, frequently by the gills. | [verb] To fish using a gillnet. GILLYING (13) GILTHEAD (13) GIMBALED (14) GIMCRACK (19) [noun] Something showy but worthless; a gimmick or bauble. | [verb] To put together quickly and without much care; to bodge. | [verb] To embellish with gimcracks. GIMLETED (12) GIMMICKS (19) [noun] A trick or device used to attain some end. | [noun] A clever ploy or strategy. | [noun] A gimmick capacitor. GIMMICKY (22) [adjective] Resembling, or characteristic of a gimmick. | [adjective] Containing gimmicks. 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GRANDEST (10) [adjective] Of a large size or extent; great. | [adjective] Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent. | [adjective] Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name. GRANDEUR (10) [noun] The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence. | [noun] Nobility (state of being noble). | [noun] Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness. GRANDKID (15) [noun] A grandchild. GRANDMAS (12) [noun] Grandmother GRANDPAS (12) [noun] Grandfather GRANDSIR (10) GRANDSON (10) [noun] A son of one's child. GRANGERS (10) GRANITAS (9) [noun] An Italian dessert of fruit purée etc. on crushed ice. GRANITES (9) [noun] A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown. | [noun] Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough. GRANITIC (11) GRANNIES (9) [noun] A grandmother. | [noun] An elderly woman. | [noun] (knots) A granny knot. GRANOLAS (9) GRANTEES (9) [noun] The person to whom something is granted. GRANTERS (9) GRANTING (10) [verb] (ditransitive) to give (permission or wish) | [verb] (ditransitive) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give. | [verb] To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true. GRANTORS (9) [noun] A person who grants something. GRANULAR (9) [adjective] Consisting of, or resembling, granules or grains | [adjective] Grainy GRANULES (9) [noun] A tiny grain, a small particle. | [noun] A small structure in a cell. | [noun] A particle from 2 to 4 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale GRAPHEME (16) [noun] A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul. | [noun] In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme. GRAPHICS (16) [noun] The making of architectural or design drawings. | [noun] The graphic arts. | [noun] The pictorial representation and manipulation of data; the process by which a computer displays data. GRAPHING (15) [verb] To draw a graph. | [verb] To draw a graph of a function. GRAPHITE (14) [noun] An allotrope of carbon, consisting of planes of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal arrays with the planes stacked loosely, that is used as a dry lubricant and in "lead" pencils. | [noun] Short for graphite-reinforced plastic, a composite plastic made with graphite fibers noted for light weight strength and stiffness. | [noun] A grey colour. GRAPIEST (11) GRAPLINE (11) GRAPLINS (11) GRAPNELS (11) [noun] A small anchor, having more than two flukes, used for anchoring a small vessel. | [noun] A device with a multiple hook at one end and attached to a rope, which is thrown or hooked over a firm mooring to secure an object attached to the other end of the rope. | [noun] A grappling iron. GRAPPLED (14) [verb] To seize something and hold it firmly. | [verb] To wrestle or tussle. | [verb] (with with) To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem. GRAPPLER (13) GRAPPLES (13) [noun] A close hand-to-hand struggle; the act of grappling. | [verb] To seize something and hold it firmly. | [verb] To wrestle or tussle. GRASPERS (11) GRASPING (12) [verb] To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand. | [verb] To understand. | [verb] To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance. GRASSIER (9) [adjective] Covered with grass. | [adjective] Resembling grass. GRASSILY (12) GRASSING (10) [verb] To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.). | [verb] To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities. | [verb] To cover with grass or with turf. GRATEFUL (12) [adjective] Appreciative; thankful. | [adjective] Pleasing, welcome. GRATINEE (9) [noun] The top crust of a dish, consisting of breadcrumbs or grated cheese heated under a grill; the dish itself. GRATINGS (10) [noun] A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air. | [noun] A frame of iron bars to hold a fire. | [noun] The loose material that comes from something being grated. GRATUITY (12) [noun] Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty. | [noun] That which seduces; seduction; allurement. | [noun] (feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief. GRAUPELS (11) GRAVAMEN (14) [noun] The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint. GRAVELED (13) [verb] To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc. | [verb] To puzzle or annoy | [verb] To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand. GRAVELLY (15) [adjective] Full of, or covered with gravel or pebbles. | [adjective] (of a voice) Unpleasantly harsh or rasping. GRAVIDAE (13) GRAVIDAS (13) GRAVIDLY (16) GRAVITAS (12) [noun] Seriousness in bearing or manner; dignity | [noun] Substance, weight GRAVITON (12) [noun] A hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass. GRAVLAKS (16) GRAVURES (12) [noun] A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder. | [noun] A style of Japanese softcore; glamour photography. GRAYBACK (20) GRAYFISH (18) GRAYLAGS (13) [noun] A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak. GRAYLING (13) [noun] Any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus or specifically Thymallus thymallus, of the salmon family, having a large dorsal fin. | [noun] Other similar fish | [noun] A species of butterfly, Hipparchia semele, of the family Nymphalidae. GRAYMAIL (14) GRAYNESS (12) GRAYOUTS (12) GRAZABLE (20) GRAZIERS (18) [noun] One who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property. | [noun] The owner of a large property on which sheep or cattle graze. GRAZINGS (19) [noun] Grazeland. | [noun] The action of animals eating, mainly of grass in a field or on other grassland. GRAZIOSO (18) GREASERS (9) [noun] Someone or something that greases (applies grease). | [noun] A mechanic. | [noun] A biker, a tough. GREASIER (9) [adjective] Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease. | [adjective] Containing a lot of grease or fat. | [adjective] Shady, sketchy, dodgy, detestable, unethical. GREASILY (12) GREASING (10) [verb] To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate. | [verb] To bribe. | [verb] To cause to go easily; to facilitate. GREATENS (9) GREATEST (9) [adjective] Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big. | [adjective] Of larger size or more importance than others of its kind. | [adjective] (qualifying nouns of family relationship) Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s). [see Derived terms] GRECIZED (21) [verb] To render Grecian, or cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form. | [verb] To translate into Greek. | [verb] To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech. GRECIZES (20) [verb] To render Grecian, or cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form. | [verb] To translate into Greek. | [verb] To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech. GREEDIER (10) [adjective] Having greed; consumed by selfish desires. | [adjective] Prone to overeat. | [adjective] Tending to match as much text as possible. GREEDILY (13) [adverb] In a greedy manner; with keen or ardent desire. GREEGREE (10) [noun] An African, or Afro-American, charm or talisman. GREENBUG (12) GREENERY (12) [noun] Green foliage or verdure. | [noun] Foliage used as decoration. | [noun] Marijuana. GREENEST (9) [adjective] Having green as its color. | [adjective] (of people) Sickly, unwell. | [adjective] Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen. GREENFLY (15) [noun] Any of several kinds of common insects green in color: GREENIER (9) GREENIES (9) [noun] An environmentalist; someone who shows concern for the environment. | [noun] (by extension) A member of the Green Party. | [noun] (Wyoming) A person from Colorado; after the color of the Colorado license plate. GREENING (10) [verb] To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. | [verb] To become or grow green in colour. | [verb] To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.). GREENISH (12) [adjective] Somewhat green. GREENLET (9) [noun] Any of various birds in the genus Hylophilus. GREENTHS (12) GREENWAY (15) [noun] A corridor of undeveloped or park land. GREETERS (9) [noun] A person who greets people on their arrival. | [noun] (tourism) A volunteer who shows tourists around their home city or region for free. | [noun] One who weeps or mourns. GREETING (10) [verb] To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or over the phone/internet | [verb] To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy) | [verb] To accost; to address. GREISENS (9) GREMIALS (11) GREMLINS (11) [noun] A mythical creature reputed to be mischievously inclined to damage or dismantle machinery. | [noun] (by extension) Any mysterious, unknown source of trouble or mischief. | [noun] A young inexperienced surfer. GREMMIES (13) GRENADES (10) [noun] A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched from a grenade launcher. | [noun] A pomegranate. | [noun] A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top. GREWSOME (14) GREYHENS (15) GREYLAGS (13) [noun] A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak. GREYNESS (12) GRIBBLES (13) [noun] Any of various wood-boring marine crustaceans of the genus Limnoria, especially Limnoria lignorum, which cause damage to underwater wooden structures. GRIDDERS (11) [noun] One who makes use of grids. GRIDDLED (12) [verb] To use a griddle, cook on a griddle GRIDDLES (11) [noun] A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked. | [verb] To use a griddle, cook on a griddle GRIDIRON (10) [noun] An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire. | [noun] An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals. | [noun] Any object resembling the rack or grate. GRIDLOCK (16) [noun] A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way. | [noun] On a smaller scale: the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock. | [noun] (by extension) any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock. GRIEVANT (12) GRIEVERS (12) GRIEVING (13) [verb] To cause sorrow or distress to. | [verb] To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for. | [verb] To experience grief. GRIEVOUS (12) [adjective] Causing grief, pain or sorrow. | [adjective] Serious, grave, dire or dangerous. GRIFFINS (15) [noun] A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle. | [noun] A large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. | [noun] An English variety of apple. GRIFFONS (15) [noun] A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle. | [noun] A large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. | [noun] An English variety of apple. GRIFTERS (12) [noun] A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games. GRIFTING (13) [verb] To obtain illegally, as by con game. | [verb] To obtain money illegally. | [verb] To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means. GRILLADE (10) [noun] A piece of slow-cooked meat (usually beef, veal, or pork) traditionally served with grits in New Orleans cuisine. | [noun] Any grilled food. GRILLAGE (10) [noun] A foundation of crisscrossing timber or steel beams, usually for spreading heavy loads over large areas. GRILLERS (9) GRILLING (10) [verb] To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue. | [verb] To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – broil, salamander. | [verb] To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly. GRIMACED (14) [verb] To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces. | [adjective] Distorted; crabbed GRIMACER (13) GRIMACES (13) [noun] A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain. | [noun] Affectation, pretence. | [verb] To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces. GRIMIEST (11) [adjective] Stained or covered with grime. | [adjective] From the urban musical genre called grime. GRIMMEST (13) [adjective] Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding | [adjective] Rigid and unrelenting | [adjective] Ghastly or sinister GRIMNESS (11) GRINCHES (14) [noun] A grouch or killjoy. | [noun] A person who aggressively sets out to ruin the Christmas holidays for others. GRINDERS (10) [noun] One who grinds something, such as the teeth. | [noun] (anatomical) A molar. | [noun] A power tool with a spinning abrasive disc, used for grinding, smoothing, and shaping materials, usually metal. GRINDERY (13) GRINDING (11) [verb] To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion. | [verb] To shape with the force of friction. | [verb] To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface. GRINNERS (9) GRINNING (10) [verb] To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth. | [verb] To express by grinning. | [verb] To show the teeth, like a snarling dog. GRIPIEST (11) GRIPPERS (13) GRIPPIER (13) [adjective] Having a tight grip, or tending to grip well. | [adjective] Tight-fisted, greedy, stingy. GRIPPING (14) [verb] To take hold of, particularly with the hand. | [verb] To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense. | [verb] To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief. GRIPSACK (17) GRISEOUS (9) [adjective] Having a gray, mottled appearance GRISETTE (9) [noun] A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; especially, a young working-class woman of perceived easy morals. GRISKINS (13) GRISLIER (9) [adjective] Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying. GRISTLES (9) GRITTIER (9) [adjective] Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles. | [adjective] Spirited; resolute; unyielding. | [adjective] Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence. GRITTILY (12) GRITTING (10) [verb] Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger. | [verb] To cover with grit. | [verb] To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. GRIZZLED (28) [verb] To make or become grey, as with age. | [verb] To cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child. | [verb] To whinge or whine. GRIZZLER (27) GRIZZLES (27) [noun] A dark grey colour. | [noun] Grey hair. | [noun] A grey wig. GROANERS (9) GROANING (10) [verb] To make a groan. | [verb] To strive after earnestly, as if with groans. | [noun] A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil. GROGGERY (14) GROGGIER (11) [adjective] Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc. | [adjective] Of a horse: bearing wholly on its heels when trotting. GROGGILY (14) GROGRAMS (12) GROGSHOP (15) [noun] A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk. GROINING (10) GROMMETS (13) [noun] A reinforced eyelet, or a small metal or plastic ring used to reinforce an eyelet. | [noun] A ring formed of a single strand of rope, laid in three times round, fastening the upper edge of a sail to its stay. | [noun] (flags) An eyelet at the hoist end of a flag, used to fasten the flag to its halyard. GROMWELL (14) [noun] Lithospermum arvense, a plant of the genus Lithospermum anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of kidney stones. GROOMERS (11) GROOMING (12) [verb] To attend to one's appearance and clothing. | [verb] To care for (horses or other animals) by brushing and cleaning them. | [verb] To prepare (someone) for election or appointment. GROOVERS (12) GROOVIER (12) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or having grooves. | [adjective] Set in one's ways. | [adjective] Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable. GROOVING (13) [verb] To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow. | [verb] To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music. | [noun] A groove; a long indentation. GROSBEAK (15) [noun] Any of several finches and cardinals that have a large, powerful bill GROSCHEN (14) [noun] Any of several obsolete European silver coins. GROSSERS (9) [noun] (in combination) A film, etc. that grosses a certain amount of money. GROSSEST (9) [adjective] (of behaviour considered to be wrong) Highly or conspicuously offensive. | [adjective] (of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts. | [adjective] Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed. GROSSING (10) [verb] To earn money, not including expenses. GROTTIER (9) [adjective] Unpleasant, dirty, slovenly or offensive GROTTOES (9) [noun] A small cave. | [noun] An artificial cavern-like retreat. | [noun] A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure. GROUCHED (15) [verb] To be grumpy or irritable; to complain. GROUCHES (14) [noun] A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor. | [noun] One who is grumpy or irritable. | [verb] To be grumpy or irritable; to complain. GROUNDED (11) [verb] To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground. | [verb] To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges. | [verb] To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly. GROUNDER (10) [noun] A ground ball. | [noun] A fruit that has fallen to the ground rather than being picked; a windfall. | [noun] One of the large stones forming the base of a Cornish hedge. GROUPERS (11) [noun] Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas. | [noun] One who groups things. GROUPIES (11) [noun] A fan, especially a young female fan of a male singer or rock group; a person who seeks intimacy (most often physical, sometimes emotional) with a celebrity, usually a rock 'n' roll artist or band member. | [noun] A group photo including the photographer; a group self-portrait. GROUPING (12) [verb] To put together to form a group. | [verb] To come together to form a group. | [noun] A collection of things or people united as a group. GROUPOID (12) GROUSERS (9) GROUSING (10) [verb] To seek or shoot grouse. | [verb] To complain or grumble. | [noun] Peevish complaining. GROUTERS (9) [noun] One who grouts. GROUTIER (9) GROUTING (10) [verb] To insert mortar between tiles. | [noun] An application of grout. GROVELED (13) [verb] To be prone on the ground. | [verb] To crawl. | [verb] To abase oneself before another person. GROVELER (12) GROWABLE (14) GROWLERS (12) [noun] A person, creature or thing that growls. | [noun] A horse-drawn cab with four wheels. | [noun] A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water. GROWLIER (12) [adjective] Resembling the sound of a growl; throaty GROWLING (13) [verb] To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. | [verb] Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound. | [verb] To send a user a message via the Growl software library. GROWNUPS (14) [noun] An adult (used especially by children). GRUBBERS (13) [noun] One who grubs. | [noun] A machine or tool of the nature of a grub axe, grub hook, etc. | [noun] An attacking short distance kick in behind the defence in which the ball is bounced along the ground, using the uneven bounce of the ball to make it difficult for the defence to retrieve. GRUBBIER (13) [adjective] Dirty, unwashed, unclean. | [adjective] Having grubs in it. GRUBBILY (16) GRUBBING (14) [verb] To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food. | [verb] To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up. | [verb] To supply with food. GRUBWORM (16) GRUDGERS (11) GRUDGING (12) [verb] To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something). | [verb] To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied. | [verb] To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. GRUELERS (9) GRUELING (10) [noun] (racing) A race in which the animal being raced finishes in a state of physical exhaustion. | [noun] A gruelling ordeal. | [adjective] So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking. GRUELLED (10) GRUELLER (9) GRUESOME (11) [adjective] Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly. GRUFFEST (15) [adjective] Having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature. | [adjective] Hoarse-voiced. GRUFFIER (15) GRUFFILY (18) GRUFFING (16) GRUFFISH (18) GRUIFORM (14) GRUMBLED (14) [verb] To make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals. | [verb] To complain; to murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner. | [verb] To utter in a grumbling fashion. GRUMBLER (13) GRUMBLES (13) [noun] A low thundering, rumbling or growling sound. | [noun] The sound made by a hungry stomach. | [noun] A surly complaint. GRUMMEST (13) GRUMMETS (13) GRUMPHIE (16) GRUMPIER (13) [adjective] Dissatisfied and irritable. GRUMPILY (16) GRUMPING (14) [verb] To complain. | [verb] To be grumpy. GRUMPISH (16) [adjective] Surly; sullen; gruff; grumpy GRUNGIER (10) [adjective] Dirty; shabby; in disrepair. | [adjective] Of or relating to grunge music. GRUNIONS (9) [noun] Either of two small fish, of the genus Leuresthes, found along the coast of Mexico and southern California, that spawn in the wet sand at certain high tides. GRUNTERS (9) [noun] One who grunts. | [noun] Any of a group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when caught. | [noun] A pig. GRUNTING (10) [verb] (of a person) To make a grunt or grunts. | [verb] (of a pig) To make a grunt or grunts. | [verb] To break wind; to fart. GRUNTLED (10) [adjective] Grunted. | [adjective] Satisfied, pleased, contented. GRUNTLES (9) GRUTCHED (15) GRUTCHES (14) GRUYERES (12) GRYPHONS (17) [noun] A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle. | [noun] A large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. | [noun] An English variety of apple. GUACHARO (14) [noun] A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis caripensis or Steatornis steatornis); the oilbird. GUAIACOL (11) [noun] A naturally occurring methoxy phenol, having certain medicinal applications GUAIACUM (13) [noun] Any of a number of species of tree of the genus Guaiacum, native to the West Indies and parts of the Americas. | [noun] The wood or resin of this tree. GUAIOCUM (13) GUANACOS (11) [noun] A South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae. GUANASES (9) GUANIDIN (10) GUANINES (9) GUARANIS (9) [noun] The currency of Paraguay, divided into 100 céntimos GUARANTY (12) [verb] To give an assurance that something will be done right. | [verb] To assume or take responsibility for a debt or other obligation. | [verb] To make something certain. GUARDANT (10) [noun] A guardian. | [adjective] (of an animal) Positioned with the body viewed from the side, but with the head turned toward the viewer GUARDERS (10) GUARDIAN (10) [noun] Someone who guards, watches over, or protects. | [noun] A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis). | [noun] A person legally responsible for an incompetent person. GUARDING (11) [verb] To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend. | [verb] To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like. | [verb] To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety. GUAYULES (12) [noun] Parthenium argentatum, a flowering shrub in the aster family. 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GUNMETAL (11) [noun] A type of bronze used for making cannons. | [noun] An alloy of 88% copper, 10% tin and 2% zinc, originally used for making guns. | [noun] A dark grey or bluish-grey colour; gunmetal grey. GUNNINGS (10) GUNNYBAG (15) GUNPAPER (13) GUNPLAYS (14) GUNPOINT (11) [noun] A location in the front of the muzzle of a gun. | [noun] Threat or coercion by display or aiming a firearm or similar weapon. GUNROOMS (11) [noun] A room where guns are stored. | [noun] Living quarters for junior officers and midshipmen on a warship (hence gunroom officers). In the past it was usually set in the forecastle. GUNSHIPS (14) [noun] A ship equipped with heavy artillery. | [noun] An armed helicopter tasked to attack the enemy. | [noun] (air force) A transport airplane equipped with large calibre guns typical of armoured fighting vehicles GUNSHOTS (12) [noun] The act of discharging a firearm. | [noun] The sound made by a discharging firearm. | [noun] The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun; the reach or range of a gun. GUNSMITH (14) [noun] A person skilled in the repair and servicing of firearms. GUNSTOCK (15) [noun] The handle of a handgun. | [noun] The rear part of a musket, rifle or shotgun which is pressed into the shoulder. GUNWALES (12) [noun] The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck. GURGLETS (10) GURGLING (11) [verb] To flow with a bubbling sound. | [verb] To make such a sound. | [noun] A gurgling sound. GURNARDS (10) [noun] Any of various marine fish of the family Triglidae that have a large armored head and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom. GURUSHIP (14) GUSHIEST (12) [adjective] Gushing; effusive and often emotional. | [adjective] Tending to gush, to produce a large flow of liquid. GUSSETED (10) GUSSYING (13) [verb] To dress up or decorate in a showy way GUSTABLE (11) GUSTIEST (9) [adjective] (of wind) Blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous. | [adjective] (by extension, metaphoric) Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression | [adjective] (metaphoric) Bombastic, verbose. 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GWEDUCKS (19) GYMKHANA (21) [noun] A competition where riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes. | [noun] A place of public resort for athletic games, etc. | [noun] A meeting for such sports. GYMNASIA (14) [noun] A large room or building for indoor sports. | [noun] A type of secondary school in some European countries which typically prepares students for university. | [noun] A public place or building where Ancient Greek youths took exercise, with running and wrestling grounds, baths, and halls for conversation. GYMNASTS (14) [noun] One who performs gymnastics GYNAECEA (14) [noun] The women's quarters in a household, especially of ancient Greece or Rome. | [noun] Establishment in Rome where female workers made clothing and furniture for royalty. GYNAECIA (14) GYNANDRY (16) GYNARCHY (20) [noun] A government ruled by a woman or women. | [noun] Government by a woman or women. 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