4-letter words starting with g
- glia — neuroglia.
- glib — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
- glid — Simple past tense and past participle of glide.
- glim — a light or lamp.
- glin — (of the sky near the horizon) to become lighter (often followed by up).
- glip — (military, transitive) To bomb a bridge, particularly with a technique developed by the 490th Missile Squadron during World War II.
- glit — slimy matter
- glob — a drop or globule of a liquid.
- glom — to steal.
- glop — unappetizing food, especially of a semiliquid consistency.
- glos — Graphics Language Object System.
- glow — a light emitted by or as if by a substance heated to luminosity; incandescence.
- glub — The sound of underwater bubbles, or of water bubbling (often used repetitively).
- glue — a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.
- glug — to make the sound of liquid pouring from a bottle.
- glum — sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
- glut — to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.
- glyn — Elinor, 1864–1943, English writer.
- gmap — GCOS Macro Assembler Program
- gmat — Graduate Management Admissions Test: a computer-administered aptitude test used as one of the selection criteria for admission into US business schools
- gmbh — Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung; a limited company
- gmta — great minds think alike
- gmwu — General and Municipal Workers Union
- gnar — to snarl; growl.
- gnat — any of certain small flies, especially the biting gnats or punkies of the family Ceratopogonidae, the midges of the family Chironomidae, and the black flies of the family Simuliidae.
- gnaw — to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
- gnma — Government National Mortgage Association
- gnrh — gonadotrophin-releasing hormone: a peptide that is released from the brain and stimulates the pituitary gland to secrete gonadotrophic hormones that act in turn on the sex glands
- gns. — guineas
- gnus — either of two stocky, oxlike antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, the silver-gray, white-bearded C. taurinus of the eastern African plain and the black, white-tailed C. gnou of central South Africa: recently near extinction, the South African gnu is now protected.
- gnvq — In Britain, GNVQs are qualifications in practical subjects such as business, design, and information technology. GNVQ is an abbreviation for 'general national vocational qualification'.
- goad — a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- goaf — gob1 (def 3).
- goal — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- goan — Eye dialect of going.
- goar — Obsolete form of gore (dirt, mud).
- goas — Plural form of goa.
- goat — any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- gobi — a desert in E Asia, mostly in Mongolia. About 500,000 sq. mi. (1,295,000 sq. km).
- gobo — a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
- gobs — the mouth.
- goby — any small marine or freshwater fish of the family Gobiidae, often having the pelvic fins united to form a suctorial disk.
- godi — A local chieftain in Iceland with religious and administrative duties.
- gods — Plural form of god.
- goel — (obsolete) yellow.
- goer — a person or thing that goes: We sat in the lobby watching the comers and goers.
- goes — 3rd person singular present indicative of go1 .
- goey — (of a person) go-ahead
- goff — (Scotland) Obsolete form of golf (ball game).
- gogh — Vincent van [vin-suh nt van;; Dutch vin-sent vahn] /ˈvɪn sənt væn;; Dutch vɪnˈsɛnt vɑn/ (Show IPA), van Gogh, Vincent.