4-letter words containing g
- grit — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- grix — /griks/ (WPI) A meta-number, said to be an integer between 6 and 7. Used either alone or with flib or suffixes such as -ty, -teen, etc. to denote an arbitrary integer (see N). "This system will bomb if there are grixty-flib users on it."
- gro. — gross (unit of quantity)
- grog — a mixture of rum and water, often flavored with lemon, sugar, and spices and sometimes served hot.
- grok — to understand thoroughly and intuitively.
- grom — (surfing, snowboarding, skimboarding, slang) A young surfer, wakeskater, wakeboarder, snowboarder, skimboarder, skateboarder, or kiteboarder.
- gros — Antoine Jean [ahn-twan zhahn] /ɑ̃ˈtwan ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1771–1835, French painter.
- grot — rubbish; dirt
- grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- grsm — Graduate of the Royal Schools of Music
- grub — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- grue — to shudder.
- gruf — (obsolete) forwards; with one's face to the ground.
- grum — grim; glum; surly.
- grup — (especially in marketing) an adult, usually over the age of 30, whose lifestyle, interests, and tastes are in some ways the same as those of much younger people: skateboards that appeal to grups and teenagers.
- grus — a constellation in the S hemisphere lying near Phoenix and Piscis Austrinus and containing a first and a second magnitude star
- gsbl — (language)
- gsoh — Good sense of humor Alternative form of GSOH.
- gspl — (language) Greenberg's System Programming Language. Bernard Greenberg.
- gsvq — General Scottish Vocational Qualification
- gtt. — guttae
- gtwa — Greater Toronto Workers Assembly
- guac — guacamole.
- guam — an island, belonging to the U.S., in the N Pacific, E of the Philippines: the largest of the Marianas group; U.S. naval station. 206 sq. mi. (535 sq. km). Capital: Agaña. Abbreviation: GU (for use with zip code).
- guan — a large game bird of the curassow family, common in dense woodlands of Central and South America, somewhat resembling a turkey.
- guar — a plant, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, of the legume family, grown as a forage crop and for its seeds, which produce a gum (guar gum) used as a thickening agent and stabilizer in foods and pharmaceuticals and as sizing for paper and cloth.
- guck — slime or oozy dirt: the guck in a stagnant pond.
- gude — God.
- gues — Plural form of gue.
- guff — empty or foolish talk; nonsense.
- guga — (Scotland) solan goose.
- guib — bushbuck.
- gula — Zoology. the upper part of the throat or gullet. the front or forward part of the neck.
- gule — (obsolete) The throat; the gullet.
- gulf — a portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land.
- gull — a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
- gulp — to gasp or choke, as when taking large drafts of a liquid.
- guls — a large octagonal design derived from the shape of a rose, a motif on Oriental rugs.
- guly — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to gules; red.
- gumi — a spreading shrub, Elaeagnus multiflora, of eastern Asia, having fragrant yellowish-white flowers and edible red fruit.
- gump — a foolish or stupid person.
- gums — Often, gums. Also called gingiva. the firm, fleshy tissue covering the alveolar parts of either jaw and enveloping the necks of the teeth.
- guna — (in Sankhya and Vedantic philosophy) one of the three qualities of prakriti, or nature, which are passion (rajas) dullness or inertia (tamas) and goodness or purity (sattva)
- gung — (obsolete) altform gonga: an outhouse.
- gunk — any sticky or greasy residue or accumulation: gunk on the oil filter.
- gunn — Thom(son William). 1929–2004, British poet who lived in the USA. His works include Fighting Terms (1954), My Sad Captains (1961), Jack Straw's Castle (1976), The Man with the Night Sweats (1992), and Boss Cupid (2000)
- guns — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- gunt — Lbl slang the bulging between the waist and the genital areas.
- gunz — the first stage of the glaciation of Eurasia during the Pleistocene. Compare Nebraskan (def 4).
- gurl — Obsolete form of girl.