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  • glacé cherry — a crystallized or candied cherry, used in cookery and cocktail-making
  • glacier lily — a dogtooth violet, Erythronium grandiflorum, of the lily family, native to western North America, having bright yellow flowers.
  • glassyheaded — smooth; bald
  • glossy snake — a nocturnal burrowing snake, Arizona elegans, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having smooth, glistening scales of tan with brown blotches.
  • glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
  • glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
  • glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
  • gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
  • golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
  • granite city — a city in SW Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri.
  • granny dress — a loose-fitting, ankle-length dress, usually with long sleeves and a high collar and sometimes having flounces, ruffles, or lace trimming.
  • granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.
  • grass hockey — field hockey.
  • gravity cell — a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.
  • gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
  • gravity wave — Astronomy, Physics. gravitational wave.
  • gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
  • gray snapper — a snapper, Lutjanus griseus, of shallow waters off the coast of Florida, having a grayish-green body with a brown spot on each scale.
  • greasy spoon — a cheap and rather unsanitary restaurant.
  • great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • great sunday — Easter Sunday.
  • gregariously — fond of the company of others; sociable.
  • grey gurnard — a species of scorpionfish, Eutriglia gurnardus
  • grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and sociable
  • grey wagtail — a greyish species of wagtail, Motacilla cinerea, found in temperate regions
  • grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
  • grizzly bear — a large North American brown bear, Ursus (arctos) horribilis, with coarse, gray-tipped brown fur, once widespread in the western part of the continent as far south as northern Mexico but now restricted to some regions of Alaska, western Canada, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains: a threatened species except in Alaska.
  • gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
  • gynaecocracy — Alternative form of gynecocracy.
  • gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
  • gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
  • gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
  • haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
  • hadley chest — a style of chest made c1700 in Massachusetts or Connecticut, having front rails and panels carved in low relief with elaborate tulip and leaf patterns.
  • haematolyses — Plural form of haematolysis.
  • haematolysis — Haemolysis.
  • haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
  • haematoxylon — any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa. The heartwood yields the dye haematoxylin
  • haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
  • half-century — a period of 100 years.
  • halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
  • halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
  • handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
  • hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
  • happy camper — Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied: There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized.
  • happy couple — two people in a happy romantic relationship, especially two people who have just married
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