4-letter words starting with g
- geek — computer geek
- geep — the hybrid offspring of a goat and a sheep.
- geer — Obsolete form of gear.
- gees — Plural form of gee.
- geet — (Geordie) great.
- geez — a Semitic language of ancient Ethiopia, now used only as the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Church.
- geis — Plural form of gei.
- geit — a border on clothing
- gela — a city in S Sicily, Italy, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- geld — to castrate (an animal, especially a horse).
- gell — Eye dialect of girl.
- gels — Plural form of gel.
- gelt — a simple past tense and past participle of geld1 .
- gems — chamois (def 1).
- gen. — religion; Genesis
- gena — the cheek or side region of the head.
- gene — James Joseph ("Gene") 1898–1978, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1926–28.
- genf — Geneva (the city & the canton)
- genk — a town in NE Belgium, in Limburg province: coal-mining. Pop: 106 213 (2004 est)
- genl — General or general
- gens — a group of families in ancient Rome claiming descent from a common ancestor and united by a common name and common ancestral religious rites.
- gent — Flemish name of Ghent.
- genu — the knee.
- geo- — Geo- is used at the beginning of words that refer to the whole of the world or to the Earth's surface.
- geon — (physics) A hypothetical electromagnetic or gravitational wave held together in a confined region by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy.
- geos — A small windowing, microkernel (less than 64 kbytes long) operating system written in heavily bummed assembly language for MS-DOS computers. It multitasks rather nicely on a 6 Mhz Intel 80286 with at least 512K memory. It was adapted to PDAs by adding pen recognition, which doesn't work very well.
- ger. — gerund
- gera — a city in E central Germany.
- gerb — A firework that produces a fountain of sparks.
- gerd — gastroesophageal reflux disease.
- germ — a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- gern — (obsolete) To grin.
- gers — a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- gert — a female given name, form of Gertrude.
- geru — An earthy-red color. In India this colour is used to paint flowerpots and tree bases.
- gery — (obsolete) changeable; fickle.
- gest — Generic Expert System Tool
- geta — a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.
- gets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of get.
- gett — (Northern England, Geordie, pejorative) A nasty person.
- getz — Stan(ley) 1927–91, U.S. jazz saxophonist.
- geum — any plant of the genus Geum, comprising the avens.
- gfci — ground-fault circuit-interrupter
- gfdl — GNU Free Documentation License
- ghat — a wide set of steps descending to a river, especially a river used for bathing.
- ghee — a kind of liquid butter, used especially in the cooking of India, made from the milk of cows or buffaloes and clarified by boiling.
- ghey — (Internet, slang, pejorative) alternative spelling of gay or deliberate misspelling of gay (homosexual).
- gi's — a lightweight, two-piece, usually white garment worn by barefooted martial-arts participants, consisting of loose-fitting pants and a wraparound jacket with cloth belt.
- gibe — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
- gibs — Plural form of gib.