6-letter words containing a, d
- gasped — a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.
- gassed — drunk.
- gasted — to terrify or frighten.
- gauded — Simple past tense and past participle of gaud.
- gauged — to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.
- gauzed — Simple past tense and past participle of gauze.
- gawked — to stare stupidly; gape: The onlookers gawked at arriving celebrities.
- gawped — to stare with the mouth open in wonder or astonishment; gape: Crowds stood gawping at the disabled ship.
- gaydar — a person's purported intuitive or sensing ability to identify homosexuals.
- gdansk — a seaport in N Poland, on the Gulf of Danzig.
- gdynia — a seaport in N Poland, on the Gulf of Danzig.
- geared — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- gedact — a flutelike stopped metal diapason organ pipe
- gelada — a large baboonlike cliff-dwelling monkey, Theropithecus gelada, native to mountains of Ethiopia, having a brown coat and, in the male, a luxuriant mane: an endangered species.
- geland — A kind of andisol associated with very cold climates.
- gerald — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “spear” and “rule.”.
- gerard — Comte Étienne Maurice [kawnt ey-tyen moh-rees] /kɔ̃t eɪˈtyɛn moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1773–1852, French marshal under Napoleon.
- giddap — an exclamation used to make a horse go faster
- gidday — (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Alternative form of g'day.
- gilead — a district of ancient Palestine, E of the Jordan River, in present N Jordan.
- girard — Stephen, 1750–1831, U.S. merchant, banker, and philanthropist, born in France.
- giraud — Henri Honoré [ahn ree aw-naw-rey] /ɑ̃ ˈri ɔ nɔˈreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1879–1949, French general.
- gizard — Misspelling of gizzard.
- glad's — gladiolus (def 1).
- gladen — Sword grass.
- glades — Plural form of glade.
- gladly — feeling joy or pleasure; delighted; pleased: glad about the good news; glad that you are here.
- gladys — Elizabeth, 1911–79, U.S. poet.
- glands — a sleeve within a stuffing box, fitted over a shaft or valve stem and tightened against compressible packing in such a way as to prevent leakage of fluid while allowing the shaft or stem to move; lantern ring.
- glared — Stare in an angry or fierce way.
- glazed — having a surface covered with a glaze; lustrous; smooth; glassy.
- glenda — a female given name.
- gnawed — to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
- go and — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go bad — not good in any manner or degree.
- goaded — a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- goader — One who goads.
- goated — Simple past tense and past participle of goat.
- godard — Benjamin Louis Paul [bahn-zha-man lwee pawl] /bɑ̃ ʒaˈmɛ̃ lwi pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1849–95, French violinist and composer.
- goddam — Misspelling of goddamn.
- godiva — ("Lady Godiva") died 1057, wife of Leofric. According to legend, she rode naked through the streets of Coventry, England, to win relief for the people from a burdensome tax.
- godman — (India, colloquial, deregatory) A type of charismatic guru.
- gonads — a sex gland in which gametes are produced; an ovary or testis.
- gondar — a former kingdom in E Africa: now a province in NW Ethiopia. Capital: Gondar.
- goonda — a rogue or hoodlum.
- graced — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- graded — Simple past tense and past participle of grade.
- gradee — One who receives a grade.
- grader — a person or thing that grades.
- grades — Plural form of grade.