6-letter words containing e, d, g
- gander — a town in E Newfoundland, in Canada: airport on the great circle route between New York and northern Europe.
- ganged — Simple past tense and past participle of gang.
- gaoled — to take into or hold in lawful custody; imprison.
- gapped — a break or opening, as in a fence, wall, or military line; breach: We found a gap in the enemy's line of fortifications.
- garbed — a fashion or mode of dress, especially of a distinctive, uniform kind: in the garb of a monk.
- garden — Alexander, 1730?–91, U.S. naturalist, born in Scotland.
- garred — Scot. to compel or force (someone) to do something.
- gashed — Make a gash in; cut deeply.
- 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.
- 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
- geddes — Norman Bel [bel] /bɛl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1958, U.S. industrial and stage designer and architect.
- geddit — Eye dialect of get it (As in,
- geeked — a digital-technology expert or enthusiast (a term of pride as self-reference, but often used disparagingly by others).
- 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.
- gelded — to castrate (an animal, especially a horse).
- gelder — One who gelds or castrates.
- geldof — Bob. Full name Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof. born 1954, Irish rock singer and philanthropist: formerly lead vocalist with the Boomtown Rats (1977–86): organizer of the Band Aid charity (from 1984) for famine relief in Africa. He received an honorary knighthood in 1986
- gelled — Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- gemmed — Simple past tense and past participle of gem.
- gender — either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior: the feminine gender. Compare sex (def 1).
- genned — Simple past tense and past participle of gen.
- geodes — Plural form of geode.
- geoids — Plural form of geoid.
- 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.
- gerund — (in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”. See also gerundive (def 1).
- gested — (now rare) Accompanied with gestures; conveyed by gesture.
- gibbed — (of a cat) castrated.
- gideon — Also called Jerubbaal. a judge of Israel and conqueror of the Midianites. Judges 6–8.
- gidgee — any of various small acacia trees, Acacia cambagei, which at times emit an unpleasant smell
- giffed — a set of standards and file format for storage of digital color images and short animations.
- gifted — having great special talent or ability: the debut of a gifted artist.
- gigged — a single professional engagement, usually of short duration, as of jazz or rock musicians.
- gilded — covered or highlighted with gold or something of a golden color.
- gilden — (obsolete) Golden; made of gold.
- gilder — a silver or nickel coin and monetary unit of the Netherlands until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 cents; florin. Abbreviation: Gld., f., fl.
- gilead — a district of ancient Palestine, E of the Jordan River, in present N Jordan.
- gilled — a faller used in the combing process, generally for only the highest-quality fibers.
- gimped — a limp.
- ginned — drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
- gipped — Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.