4-letter words containing a, g
- gaya — a city in central Bihar, in NE India: Hindu center of pilgrimage.
- gaye — Marvin. 1939–84, US soul singer and songwriter; recordings include "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1969), What's Going On (1971), and "Sexual Healing" (1982): shot dead by his father
- gays — Plural form of gay.
- gaza — a seaport on the Mediterranean Sea, in the Gaza Strip, adjacent to SW Israel; occupied by Israel 1967–94; since 1994 under Palestinian self-rule: ancient trade-route center.
- gaze — stare
- gazy — tending to gaze
- gcal — (text, tool) The Cambridge Phoenix equivalent of troff. So called because all Cambridge utilities were named after birds, GCAL was a "run off" equivalent, and Geococcyx californianus is the Latin name of the roadrunner. GCAL was eventually obsoleted by TeX. It is believed that even more obscure puns lurked in the depths of Phoenix. Perhaps it is better they stayed there.
- geal — (obsolete, or, Scotland) To congeal.
- gean — heart cherry.
- gear — 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.
- geas — (in Irish folklore) an obligation or prohibition magically imposed on a person.
- geat — The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in casting.
- geba — a river in W Africa, flowing N from NW Guinea-Bissau to the Atlantic Ocean. About 190 miles (305 km) long.
- gela — a city in S Sicily, Italy, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- gena — the cheek or side region of the head.
- gera — a city in E central Germany.
- geta — a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- ghat — a wide set of steps descending to a river, especially a river used for bathing.
- gila — a river flowing W from SW New Mexico across S Arizona to the Colorado River. 630 miles (1015 km) long.
- gina — a female given name.
- gita — Bhagavad-Gita.
- giza — Giza.
- glad — feeling joy or pleasure; delighted; pleased: glad about the good news; glad that you are here.
- glam — glamour.
- glia — neuroglia.
- gmap — GCOS Macro Assembler Program
- gmat — Graduate Management Admissions Test: a computer-administered aptitude test used as one of the selection criteria for admission into US business schools
- gmta — great minds think alike
- gnar — to snarl; growl.
- gnat — any of certain small flies, especially the biting gnats or punkies of the family Ceratopogonidae, the midges of the family Chironomidae, and the black flies of the family Simuliidae.
- gnaw — to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
- gnma — Government National Mortgage Association
- goad — a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- goaf — gob1 (def 3).
- goal — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- goan — Eye dialect of going.
- goar — Obsolete form of gore (dirt, mud).
- goas — Plural form of goa.
- goat — any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- gora — a White or fair-skinned male
- göta — a river in S Sweden, draining Lake Vänern and flowing south-southwest to the Kattegat: forms part of the Göta Canal, which links Göteborg in the west with Stockholm in the east. Length: 93 km (58 miles)
- goya — Francisco de [fran-sis-koh duh;; Spanish frahn-thees-kaw de,, -sees-] /frænˈsɪs koʊ də;; Spanish frɑnˈθis kɔ dɛ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), (Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes) 1746–1828, Spanish painter.
- grab — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- grad — one hundredth of a right angle.
- graf — Stephanie Maria ("Steffi") born 1969, German tennis player.
- gram — (in the Volsunga Saga) the sword of Sigmund, broken by Odin, repaired by Regin, and used again by Sigurd in killing Fafnir.
- gran — grandmother.
- gras — A public domain graph-oriented database system for software engineering applications from RWTH Aachen.
- grat — (slang) A gratuity or tip.
- grav — a unit of acceleration equal to the standard acceleration of free fall. 1 grav is equivalent to 9.806 65 metres per second per second