5-letter words containing g
- aghas — Plural form of agha.
- agila — eaglewood
- agile — Someone who is agile can move quickly and easily.
- aging — the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- agios — a premium on money in exchange.
- agism — Alternative spelling of ageism.
- agist — to care for and feed (cattle or horses) for payment
- agita — acid indigestion
- aglet — a metal sheath or tag at the end of a shoelace, ribbon, etc
- agley — awry; askew
- aglow — If something is aglow, it is shining and bright with a soft, warm light.
- agnel — a gold coin of France of the 13th–16th centuries, bearing the figure of a lamb.
- agnes — Saint. ?292–?304 ad, Christian child martyr under Diocletian. Feast day: Jan 21
- agnew — Spiro (ˈspɪərəʊ) Theodore. 1918–96, US Republican politician; vice president (1969–73)
- agnon — Shmuel Yosef, real name Samuel Josef Czaczkes. 1888–1970, Israeli novelist, born in Austria-Hungary. His works, which treat contemporary Jewish themes, include The Day Before Yesterday (1945). Nobel prize for literature 1966
- agoge — the rigorous Spartan educational training system
- agogo — A small bell made of two metal cones, used as a percussion instrument in African and Latin music.
- agone — ago; past
- agons — Plural form of agon.
- agony — Agony is great physical or mental pain.
- agood — in a serious or earnest manner
- agora — the marketplace in Athens, used for popular meetings, or any similar place of assembly in ancient Greece
- agram — German name of Zagreb.
- agree — If people agree with each other about something, they have the same opinion about it or say that they have the same opinion.
- agri- — agriculture, esp. in relation to technology or business
- agria — a significant eruption of pustules
- agric — agricultural
- agrin — in a grinning manner
- agro- — Agro- is used to form nouns and adjectives which refer to things relating to agriculture, or to agriculture combined with another activity.
- agued — of or relating to suffering from fever
- agues — Pathology. a malarial fever characterized by regularly returning paroxysms, marked by successive cold, hot, and sweating fits.
- aguna — (in Jewish law) a woman whose husband will not grant her a divorce
- agung — a volcano on NE Bali, in Indonesia: erupted 1963. 10,300 feet (3139 meters).
- agura — agora2 .
- ahigh — at a significant height
- aight — (AAVE, slang) All right.
- ainga — (in Samoa) a large family, often spanning several generations
- ajuga — a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the mint family
- aking — Present participle of ake.
- alang — a type of grass grown in Malaysia and often used for thatching roofs
- algae — Algae is a type of plant with no stems or leaves that grows in water or on damp surfaces.
- algal — Algal means relating to algae.
- algar — a male given name.
- alge- — algo-
- alger — Horatio. 1834–99, US author of adventure stories for boys, including Ragged Dick (1867)
- algid — chilly or cold
- algie — a male given name, form of Algernon.
- algin — alginic acid or one of its esters or salts, esp the gelatinous solution obtained as a by-product in the extraction of iodine from seaweed, used in mucilages and for thickening jellies
- algo- — denoting pain
- algol — the second brightest star in Perseus, the first known eclipsing binary. Visual magnitude: 2.2–3.5; period: 68.8 hours; spectral type (brighter component): B8V