| gantlet | n. | punishment in which two rows of attackers beat the victim running between them; trying ordeal, esp. as penance or discipline | ||
| gantlope | n. | running the gauntlet as a form of military punishment | ||
| gantry | n. | framework or platform supporting a crane; framework across railroad tracks for showing signals; scaffolding framework for rockets | ||
| garabance | n. | chickpea similar to (if not identical with) garbanzo beans | ||
| garimpeiro | n. | mineral prospector of Brazil | ||
| garret | n. | attic room, usu. small and seedy | ||
| garrote | v. | to kill by strangling, esp. with a thin cord or wire; to kill with iron collar formerly used in Spain for executions | ||
| garth | n. | enclosed ground, usu. beside a building, yard, etc. | ||
| garum | n. | wildly popular fish sauce in Ancient Rome | ||
| gasolier | n. | gas burning chandelier | ||
| gasometer | n. | device to measure volume or flow of gas | ||
| gasping | adj. | extremely thirsty | slang | |
| gaud | n. | showy bauble or trinket | ||
| gaum | v. | to smear with a sticky substance | ||
| gawp | v. | to stare stupidly, mouth agape | ||
| gaylord | n. | large and rugged cardboard box for shipping and storage | ||
| gazingstock | n. | someone stared at | ||
| gazump | v. | to cheat by paying more than the final auction price to the dealer, thus taking the item from the rightful buyer | ||
| geas | n. | magically inflicted obligation | ||
| gee-gee | n. | horse | slang | |
| geep | n. | hybrid of a sheep and a goat | ||
| gelid | adj. | ice-cold, frosty | ||
| gelotophobia | n. | fear of being the object of laughter | ||
| genericide | n. | loss of trademark rights due to common usage of protected terms etc. | law | |
| genesis | n. | beginning, origin | ||
| gentilitial | adj. | of related to a particular people, country, or nation; belonging to family or kin | ||
| genuflect | v. | to bend the knee in worship, to touch one knee to ground as sign of reverence | ||
| geodesy | n. | science of measuring the earth and its geological and gravitational factors | ||
| German Ocean | n. | North Sea | ||
| gerontophobe | n. | person afraid of old people; one who fears becoming old | ||
| GFC | n. | Global Financial Crisis, worldwide economic suffering which started at the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008 | ||
| ghyll | n. | ravine, gully | British | |
| giaour | n. | nonbeliever; non-Muslim, esp. Christians (Turkish) | ||
| gillie | n. | guide for hunting or fishing | Scots | |
| gilver | n. | gillyflower | ||
| gimcrack | n. | knick-knack, showy but useless item | ||
| gimlet | n. | tool for boring holes, esp. in wood, consisting of a metal screw on a shaft with a handle at the other end | ||
| ging | n. | gang; crew of ship or boat | ||
| gink | n. | fellow, person | slang | |
| girandole | n. | ornamented branched candelabra | ||
| gisant | n. | recumbent statue atop a grave representing the deceased | ||
| git | n. | fool, worthless person | slang | |
| give gyp | v. | to cause pain | British | |
| glabella | n. | line of flat space on forehead between and above eyebrows; central part of the cephalic shield of a trilobite | ||
| glabrous | adj. | smooth as a baby’s bottom | ||
| glacis | n. | gentle slope; sloping bank before the counterscarp of a fortress | ||
| glad eye | n. | friendly or flirtatious glance | colloquial | |
| Glagolitic | adj. | now unused alphabet used for certain old Slavic languages | ||
| glaucous | adj. | pale grey-green or greenish-blue | ||
| glaur | n. | muck, mud, mire | Scots |
