| 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 | |
| glebe | n. | portion of cultivable land assigned to clergyman as part of his benefice | ||
| glede | n. | hot coal or ember | ||
| gleeman | n. | wandering singer (in medieval era) | ||
| gleet | n. | watery or purulent discharge, as from a wound | ||
| glister | v. | to sparkle | ||
| gloaming | n. | twilight of the evening | ||
| gloriole | n. | nimbus, halo | ||
| glory hole | n. | small shipboard storeroom | nautical | |
| glossopetra | n. | tongue-shaped precious stone | ||
| gloze | v. | gloss over, make excuses, palliate; flatter | ||
| gnome | n. | general maxim, aphorism, terse saying with a moral | ||
| gnomic | adj. | aphoristic | ||
| gnomon | n. | part of sundial which casts the shadow by which time is determined | ||
| go for a burton | v. | to die; to be ruined or lost | slang | |
| go spare | v. | to become angry | British | |
| goaf | n. | hayrick when in a barn; waste material of a mine | ||
| goat’s-foot lever | n. | characteristically shaped lever used to quickly hook the string and span a crossbow | ||
| gob | n. | 1 | lump, mass of a slimy substance; (pl.) a large amount | |
| gob | n. | 2 | mouth | |
| gobsmacked | adj. | flabbergasted, utterly astounded | ||
| godown | n. | warehouse or storage building | ||
| goetic | adj. | of or related to dark magic or necromancy | ||
| goffer | v. | to flute or crimp by means of a heated iron | ||
| gollop | v. | to gulp down, to greedily eat | colloquial | |
| goloptious | adj. | excellent, wonderful; delicious |
