| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| guanidine | noun | A strongly alkaline base, CN3H5, formed by the oxidation of guanin, and also obtained combined with methyl in the decomposition of creatin. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, it yields urea and ammonia. |
| guaranine | noun | An alkaloid extracted from guarana. Same as Caffeine. |
| guarantee | noun | In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance; an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency; a warranty; a security. Same as Guaranty., One who binds himself to see an undertaking of another performed; a guarantor., The person to whom a guaranty is made; — the correlative of guarantor., In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or at all avents; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty. |
| guarantor | noun | One who makes or gives a guaranty; a warrantor; a surety., One who engages to secure another in any right or possession. |
| guaranies | plural | of Guaranty |
| guardable | verb t. | Capable of being guarded or protected. |
| guardfish | noun | The garfish. |
| guardless | adjective | Without a guard or defense; unguarded. |
| guardroom | noun | The room occupied by the guard during its term of duty; also, a room where prisoners are confined. |
| guardship | noun | Care; protection. |
| guardsmen | plural | of Guardsman |
| guardsman | noun | One who guards; a guard., A member, either officer or private, of any military body called Guards. |
| gubernate | verb t. | To govern. |
| guerrilla | noun | An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war., One who carries on, or assists in carrying on, irregular warfare; especially, a member of an independent band engaged in predatory excursions in war time., Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare. |
| guessable | adjective | Capable of being guessed. |
| guesswork | noun | Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture. |
| guestwise | adverb | In the manner of a guest. |
| guidebook | noun | A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc. |
| guideless | adjective | Without a guide. |
| guidepost | noun | A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers. |
| guideress | noun | A female guide. |
| guildable | adjective | Liable to a tax. |
| guildhall | noun | The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall. |
| guileless | adjective | Free from guile; artless. |
| guillemet | noun | A quotation mark. |
| guillemot | noun | One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers. |
| guillevat | noun | A vat for fermenting liquors. |
| guilloche | noun | An ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with round ornaments. |
| guiltless | adjective | Free from guilt; innocent., Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with). |
| gulleting | noun | A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels. |
| gummatous | adjective | Belonging to, or resembling, gumma. |
| gumminess | noun | The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness. |
| gummosity | noun | Gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality or nature. |
| guncotton | See under Gun. | |
| gunocracy | noun | See Gyneocracy. |
| gunpowder | noun | A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting. |
| gushingly | adverb | In a gushing manner; copiously., Weakly; sentimentally; effusively. |
| gustation | noun | The act of tasting. |
| gustatory | adjective | Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue. |
| guttatrap | noun | The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality. |
| guttering | present participle & vb. noun | of Gutter |
| guttiform | adjective | Drop-shaped, as a spot of color. |
| guttulous | adjective | In droplike form. |
| gutturine | adjective | Pertaining to the throat. |
| gutturize | verb t. | To make in the throat; to gutturalize. |