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- gasconaded — Simple past tense and past participle of gasconade.
- gasconader — A great boaster; a blusterer.
- gentlelady — A polite form of a address for a woman, used especially to a congresswoman during a congressional debate.
- gladdening — Present participle of gladden.
- gladiators — Plural form of gladiator.
- gladsomely — (archaic) gladly.
- glissading — Present participle of glissade.
- goldthread — a white-flowered plant, Coptis trifolia, of the buttercup family, having a slender, yellow root that is sometimes used as a tonic.
- goodlihead — goodness; good appearance
- goon squad — a group of hired thugs used to perform ruthless or violent acts.
- gradations — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded
- grade line — grade (def 10).
- grade-line — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- gradienter — an instrument on a transit for measuring angles of inclination in terms of their tangents.
- gradualism — the principle or policy of achieving some goal by gradual steps rather than by drastic change.
- gradualist — (biology, politics) One who believes in gradualism.
- graduality — The state or degree of being gradual.
- graduating — a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
- graduation — an act of graduating; the state of being graduated.
- granadilla — the edible fruit of any of several species of passionflower, especially Passiflora edulis (purple granadilla) or P. quadrangularis (giant granadilla)
- granddaddy — grandfather.
- greenheads — Plural form of greenhead.
- grenadiers — Plural form of grenadier.
- grenadilla — granadilla.
- grenadines — a syrup made from pomegranate juice.
- grey nomad — any elderly retired person who spends time travelling around the country in a mobile home
- greyheaded — having grey hair
- guadeloupe — two islands (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) separated by a narrow channel in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies: together with five dependencies they form an overseas department of France. 687 sq. mi. (1179 sq. km). Capital: Basse-Terre.
- haciendado — hacendado.
- had better — that which has greater excellence or is preferable or wiser: the better of two choices.
- had rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- had sooner — would rather; would prefer to
- haddington — former name of East Lothian.
- hadhramaut — a region along the S coast of the Arabian peninsula, in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
- hadrian ii — Italian ecclesiastic: pope a.d. 867–872.
- hadrian iv — (Nicholas Breakspear) c1100–59, only Englishman to become pope, 1154–59.
- hadrian vi — 1459–1523, Dutch ecclesiastic: pope 1522–23.
- hadrosaurs — Plural form of hadrosaur.
- haidarabad — a former state in S India, now part of Andhra Pradesh, Mysore, and Maharashtra.
- hamadryads — Plural form of hamadryad.
- hammerhead — the part of a hammer designed for striking.
- hardheaded — not easily moved or deceived; practical; shrewd.
- head clerk — a supervisor; manager
- head count — an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
- head louse — See under louse (def 1).
- head money — a tax of so much per head or person.
- head nurse — the chief nurse in a hospital; matron
- head rhyme — beginning rhyme.
- head right — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.