5-letter words containing gu
- guild — an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., especially one formed for mutual aid or protection.
- guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
- guilt — the fact or state of having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; culpability: He admitted his guilt.
- guin. — Guinea
- guiro — a South American musical instrument consisting of a hollow gourd with serrated surface that is scraped with a stick.
- guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- guist — Obsolete form of joust.
- gujju — a Gujarati person
- gulag — the system of forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union.
- gular — Zoology. the upper part of the throat or gullet. the front or forward part of the neck.
- gulas — Plural form of gula.
- gulch — a deep, narrow ravine, especially one marking the course of a stream or torrent.
- gules — the tincture red.
- gulet — Alternative form of goelette.
- gulfs — Plural form of gulf.
- gulfy — Characterized by or full of gulfs or whirlpools.
- gulls — Plural form of gull.
- gully — a small valley or ravine originally worn away by running water and serving as a drainageway after prolonged heavy rains.
- gulps — Plural form of gulp.
- gulpy — Inclined to gulp.
- gulty — Obsolete form of guilty.
- gumba — (slang, US) A person of Sicilian descent, often used pejoratively.
- gumbe — A style of music from Guinea-Bissau which is primarily vocal and percussive.
- gumbo — a stew or thick soup, usually made with chicken or seafood, greens, and okra or sometimes filé as a thickener.
- gumma — a rubbery, tumorlike lesion associated with tertiary syphilis.
- gummi — A sugary, gelatinous material used to make candies.
- gummy — of, resembling, or of the consistency of gum; viscid; mucilaginous.
- gumri — a city in NW Armenia, NW of Yerevan.
- gunas — (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)
- gunch — /guhnch/
(TMRC) To push, prod, or poke at a device that has almost (but not quite) produced the desired result. Implies a threat to mung. - gunda — a rogue or hoodlum.
- gundi — either of two small desert rodents, Ctenodactylus gundi or C. vali, of northern Africa, living in dry, rocky areas and characterized by comblike bristles on the hind feet.
- gundy — toffee made with treacle
- gunge — soft, sticky matter; goo.
- gungy — Having the texture or feel of gunge; gooey or gunky.
- gunky — Informal. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling gunk.
- gunna — (rare) alternative spelling of gonna.
- gunny — a strong, coarse material made commonly from jute, especially for bags or sacks; burlap.
- gunya — (Australia) alternative spelling of gunyah.
- guppy — a small, freshwater topminnow, Poecilia reticulata, often kept in aquariums.
- gupta — a dynasty of N India (a.d. 320–540) whose court was the center of classical Indian art and literature.
- guqin — a traditional Chinese zither
- gurge — a whirlpool.
- gurly — (of weather or the sea) stormy or rough
- gurry — the offal of fish or whales; the waste parts left over after cleaning fish.
- gursh — qirsh.
- gurts — Plural form of gurt.
- gurus — Plural form of guru.
- gushy — given to or marked by excessively effusive talk, behavior, etc.
- gusla — a Balkan single-stringed musical instrument that is played with a bow