| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| gabardine | noun | Alt. of Gaberdine |
| gaberdine | noun | A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress., See Gabardine. |
| gabionade | noun | A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire., A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements. |
| gabionage | noun | The part of a fortification built of gabions. |
| gaddingly | adverb | In a roving, idle manner. |
| gadolinia | noun | A rare earth, regarded by some as an oxide of the supposed element gadolinium, by others as only a mixture of the oxides of yttrium, erbium, ytterbium, etc. |
| gadolinic | adjective | Pertaining to or containing gadolinium. |
| gainsayer | noun | One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. |
| gainstood | imp. & past participle | of Gainstand |
| gainstand | verb t. | To withstand; to resist. |
| gairishly | noun | Alt. of Gairish/ness |
| galactose | noun | A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper). |
| galantine | noun | A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. |
| galenical | adjective | Pertaining to, or containing, galena., Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases. |
| galingale | noun | A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus. |
| gallanted | imp. & past participle | of Gallant |
| gallantly | adverb | In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer., In a gallant manner. |
| gallantry | noun | Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery., Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops behaved with great gallantry., Civility or polite attention to ladies; in a bad sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue., Gallant persons, collectively. |
| gallature | noun | The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg. |
| galleries | plural | of Gallery |
| galletyle | noun | A little tile of glazed earthenware. |
| gallflies | plural | of Gallfly |
| gallicism | noun | A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom. |
| gallicize | verb t. | To conform to the French mode or idiom. |
| galliform | adjective | Like the Gallinae (or Galliformes) in structure. |
| gallinule | noun | One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule (Gallinula galeata). |
| gallivant | verb i. | To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan. |
| galliwasp | noun | A West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous. |
| gallooned | adjective | Furnished or adorned with galloon. |
| galloping | present participle & vb. noun | of Gallop, Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse. |
| gallopade | noun | I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop., A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop., To gallop, as on horseback., To perform the dance called gallopade. |
| gallowses | plural | of Gallows |
| gallstone | noun | A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1. |
| galvanism | noun | Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity., The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents. |
| galvanist | noun | One versed in galvanism. |
| galvanize | verb t. | To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents., To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity., To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity., To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron. |
| gambadoes | noun | Same as Gamashes. |
| gambogian | adjective | Alt. of Gambogic |
| gambolled | of Gambol | |
| gamboling | present participle & vb. noun | of Gambol |
| game fowl | A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males. | |
| gammadion | noun | A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot. |
| gammoning | present participle & vb. noun | of Gammon, The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays., The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person. |
| gangliate | adjective | Alt. of Gangliated |
| ganglions | plural | of Ganglion |
| gangrened | imp. & past participle | of Gangrene |
| gannister | noun | A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; — used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads. |
| ganoidian | adjective & noun | Ganoid. |
| gardening | present participle & vb. noun | of Garden, The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture. |
| gargalize | verb t. | To gargle; to rinse. |
| gargarism | noun | A gargle. |
| gargarize | verb t. | To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat. |
| garibaldi | noun | A jacket worn by women; — so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi., A California market fish (Pomancentrus rubicundus) of a deep scarlet color. |
| garlanded | imp. & past participle | of Garland |
| garmented | p. adjective | Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. |
| garnering | present participle & vb. noun | of Garner |
| garnished | imp. & past participle | of Garnish |
| garnishee | noun | One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money., To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish., To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee. |
| garnisher | noun | One who, or that which, garnishes. |
| garniture | verb t. | That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress. |
| garreteer | noun | One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack. |
| garreting | noun | Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry. |
| garroting | present participle & vb. noun | of Garrote |
| garrulity | noun | Talkativeness; loquacity. |
| garrulous | adjective | Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious., Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; — said of birds; as, the garrulous roller. |
| gartering | present participle & vb. noun | of Garter |
| gascoines | noun pl. | See Gaskins, 1. |
| gasconade | noun | A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio., To boast; to brag; to bluster. |
| gascoynes | noun pl. | Gaskins. |
| gasifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Gasify |
| gasometer | noun | An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required. |
| gasometry | noun | The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids. |
| gasoscope | noun | An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house. |
| gaspereau | noun | The alewife. |
| gasserian | adjective | Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion. |
| gastornis | noun | A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin. |
| gastritis | noun | Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane. |
| gastropod | noun | One of the Gastropoda. |
| gastrulae | plural | of Gastrula |
| gatehouse | noun | A house connected or associated with a gate. |
| gathering | present participle & vb. noun | of Gather, The act of collecting or bringing together., That which is gathered, collected, or brought together, A crowd; an assembly; a congregation., A charitable contribution; a collection., A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess., Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating. |
| gaucherie | noun | An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness. |
| gaudiness | noun | The quality of being gaudy. |
| gaugeable | adjective | Capable of being gauged. |
| gauziness | noun | The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness. |
| gavelkind | noun | A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent. |
| gaveloche | noun | Same as Gavelock. |
| gazehound | noun | A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent. |
| gazetting | present participle & vb. noun | of Gazette |
| gazetteer | noun | A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority., A newspaper; a gazette., A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places., An alphabetical descriptive list of anything. |