5-letter words containing g, e
- empeg — (hardware) An in-car audio product that plays MP3 files from a hard disk. It is based around a DEC/Intel StrongARM S-1100 processor and runs a version of Linux. The user interface is written in Python. See also MPEG.
- engin — engineer
- engle — A favourite; a paramour; an ingle.
- ennog — a back alley
- enugu — a state of S Nigeria. Capital: Enugu. Pop: 3 257 298 (2006). Area: 7161 sq km (2765 sq miles)
- eqlog — Equality, types and generic modules for logic programming. A language using Horn clauses. J.A. Goguen, J. Meseguer.
- ergon — (physics) Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent.
- ergot — A fungal disease of rye and other cereals in which black, elongated, fruiting bodies grow in the ears of the cereal. Eating contaminated food can result in ergotism.
- erugo — verdigris
- étage — a floor in a multi-storey building
- exing — Present participle of ex.
- eying — Present participle of eye.
- f eng — Fellow of the Fellowship of Engineering
- fadge — to agree
- feign — to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
- fgrep — (tool) A variant of the Unix grep command which searches for fixed (uninterpreted) strings rather than regular expressions. Surprisingly, this is not always faster.
- fidge — (obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) To fidget; jostle or shake.
- fleng — A parallel logic language.
- fogey — fogy.
- fogle — (obsolete) A pocket handkerchief.
- forge — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
- frege — (Friedrich Ludwig) Gottlob [gawt-lohp] /ˈgɔt loʊp/ (Show IPA), 1848–1925, German mathematician and logician.
- fuage — fumage.
- fudge — a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
- fugie — a cock that runs from a fight
- fugle — to act as a guide or model.
- fugue — Music. a polyphonic composition based upon one, two, or more themes, which are enunciated by several voices or parts in turn, subjected to contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having somewhat distinct divisions or stages of development and a marked climax at the end.
- funge — (obsolete) A fungus.
- gabel — (UK, legal, obsolete) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
- gabes — Gulf of, a gulf of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia.
- gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
- gaeta — a seaport in W central Italy, on the Gulf of Gaeta off the Tyrrhenian Sea.
- gaffe — a social blunder; faux pas.
- gaged — a standard of measure or measurement.
- gager — a person or thing that gauges.
- gages — Plural form of gage.
- galea — Botany. a part of the calyx or corolla having the form of a helmet, as the upper lip of the corolla of the monkshood.
- galed — Simple past tense and past participle of gale.
- galen — Latin Galenus [guh-lee-nuh s] /gəˈli nəs/ (Show IPA). Claudius, a.d. c130–c200, Greek physician and writer on medicine.
- gales — Plural form of gale.
- galet — to fill (a mortar joint) with gallets.
- galle — a seaport in SW Sri Lanka.
- gamed — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gamer — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- games — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gamey — having the tangy flavor or odor of game: I like the gamy taste of venison.
- gance — Abel (abɛl). 1889–1981, French film director, whose works include J'accuse (1919, 1937) and Napoléon (1927), which introduced the split-screen technique
- ganef — a thief, swindler, crook, or rascal.
- gaped — to stare with open mouth, as in wonder.
- gaper — a person or thing that gapes.