10-letter words starting with g
- gambolling — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- game chips — round thin potato chips served with game
- game point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the game.
- gamekeeper — a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.
- gameplayer — One who plays a game or games.
- gamer girl — a female video-game enthusiast.
- gamesomely — In a gamesome manner.
- gametangia — an organ or body bearing gametes, as in mosses and liverworts.
- gametocide — a substance that kills gametes or gametocytes.
- gametocyte — a cell that produces gametes.
- gamilaraay — Kamilaroi.
- gaminesque — resembling or typical of a gamin or gamine; impish, mischievous
- gamma iron — Metallurgy. an allotrope of iron, stable between 910°C and 1400°C and having a face-centered cubic lattice.
- gamma rays — a photon of penetrating electromagnetic radiation (gamma radiation) emitted from an atomic nucleus.
- gammadions — Plural form of gammadion.
- gammopathy — a disorder of the immune system characterized by abnormally increased levels of immunoglobulins in the blood.
- gamophobia — The fear of marriage.
- gamotropic — of or relating to gamotropism
- gandhi cap — a white cap, pointed in front and back and having a wide band, worn by men in India.
- gang drill — a drilling machine having a number of separately driven vertical spindles in a row, used for drilling holes in a piece successively.
- gang up on — a group or band: A gang of boys gathered around the winning pitcher.
- gangbanger — a member of a violent street gang.
- gangbuster — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gangliated — having ganglia.
- gangliform — having the form of a ganglion.
- ganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- gangmaster — a person who recruits and manages temporary or migratory labourers, esp for seasonal agricultural work
- gangplanks — Plural form of gangplank.
- gangrening — Present participle of gangrene.
- gangrenous — necrosis or death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition and putrefaction.
- gansevoort — Peter, 1749–1812, U.S. general: soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
- gaptoothed — having a gap between two teeth, as because of a missing tooth
- garbageman — a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage; sanitation worker.
- garbagemen — Plural form of garbageman.
- garburator — (Canada) An electric device between the drain and the U-bend in a kitchen sink that shreds food waste into small enough bits to be washed down the sink.
- garden pea — pea1 (defs 1–3).
- gardenhood — The state of being a garden; the status, respect, or appearance befitting a proper garden.
- garderobes — Plural form of garderobe.
- gargantuan — gigantic; enormous; colossal: a gargantuan task.
- gargoylish — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a gargoyle.
- gargoylism — a congenital abnormality characterized chiefly by dwarfism, grotesque deformities of the head, trunk, and limbs, mental retardation, and enlargement of the liver and spleen.
- garibaldis — Plural form of garibaldi.
- garishness — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- garlandage — an arrangement of garlands
- garlanding — Present participle of garland.
- garmenture — the clothing (of a person)
- garnierite — a mineral, hydrous nickel magnesium silicate, occurring in earthy, green masses: an important ore of nickel.
- garnisheed — Simple past tense and past participle of garnishee.
- garnishees — Plural form of garnishee.
- garnishing — to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate.