5-letter words starting with g
- grece — a flight of steps, or a single step in a flight
- greco — (Domenikos Theotocopoulos) 1541–1614, Spanish painter, born in Crete.
- greed — excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
- greek — of or relating to Greece, the Greeks, or their language.
- green — of the color of growing foliage, between yellow and blue in the spectrum: green leaves.
- greer — Germaine, born 1939, Australian feminist and writer.
- grees — favor; goodwill.
- greet — to lament; bewail.
- grefa — griefo.
- grege — to make heavy
- gregg — John Robert, 1864–1948, U.S. educator: inventor of a system of shorthand.
- grego — a short, hooded coat of thick, coarse fabric, originally worn in the eastern Mediterranean countries.
- grein — to desire fervently
- greta — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- greys — of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
- grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- grick — /grik/ (WPI, first used by Tim Haven to describe "grick trigonometry", a shortcut method of determing attack angles in grid-based games like Star Trek) Any integral increment of measurement. E.g. "Please turn the stereo up a few gricks".
- gride — to make a grating sound; scrape harshly; grate; grind.
- grids — Plural form of grid.
- grief — keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
- grieg — Edvard [ed-vahrd;; Norwegian ed-vahrt] /ˈɛd vɑrd;; Norwegian ˈɛd vɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1843–1907, Norwegian composer.
- griff — griffin2 .
- grift — (sometimes used with a plural verb) a group of methods for obtaining money falsely through the use of swindles, frauds, dishonest gambling, etc.
- grigs — Plural form of grig.
- grike — (chiefly, British) A deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants.
- grilf — Girl-friend. Like newsfroup and filk, a typo incarnated as a new word. Seems to have originated sometime in 1992.
- grill — a grating or openwork barrier, as for a gate, usually of metal and often of decorative design.
- grime — dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- grimm — Jakob Ludwig Karl [yah-kop loot-vikh kahrl,, lood-] /ˈyɑ kɒp ˈlut vɪx kɑrl,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), 1785–1863, and his brother Wilhelm Karl [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA) 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists.
- grimy — covered with grime; dirty: I shook his grimy hand.
- grind — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- grins — Plural form of grin.
- griot — a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc.
- gripe — Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.
- grips — Plural form of grip.
- gript — a past participle and simple past tense of grip.
- gripy — resembling or causing gripes.
- grise — (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
- grist — grain to be ground.
- grisy — grim or grisly
- grith — protection or asylum for a limited period of time, as under church or crown.
- grits — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- groan — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- groat — a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662.
- grody — repulsive; disgusting; nauseating.
- grofe — Ferde [fur-dee] /ˈfɜr di/ (Show IPA), (Ferdinand Rudolf von Grofé) 1892–1972, U.S. composer.
- groff — GNU roff. See also nroff, troff. Version 1.07 by James J. Clark <[email protected]>. FTP groff-1.07.tar.z from a GNU archive site.
- groid — (derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- groin — Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- groks — to understand thoroughly and intuitively.