5-letter words starting with g
- groma — an instrument having a cruciform wooden frame with a plumb line at the end of each arm, used for laying out lines at right angles to existing lines.
- grone — Obsolete spelling of groan.
- gronk — /gronk/ Popularised by Johnny Hart's comic strip "B.C." but the word apparently predates that. 1. To clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More severe than "to frob" (sense 2). 2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash, or similarly disable. 3. The sound made by many 3.5-inch diskette drives. In particular, the microfloppies on a Commodore Amiga go "grink, gronk".
- groof — the face or the front of the body
- groom — a bridegroom.
- groop — (obsolete, or, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or small ditch.
- groot — Huig [hœikh] /hœɪx/ (Show IPA), Hugo Grotius.
- grope — to feel about with the hands; feel one's way: I had to grope around in the darkness before I found the light switch.
- gross — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- grosz — an aluminum coin of Poland, the 100th part of a zloty.
- grote — George, 1794–1871, English historian.
- group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- grout — a thin, coarse mortar poured into various narrow cavities, as masonry joints or rock fissures, to fill them and consolidate the adjoining objects into a solid mass.
- grove — Sir George, 1820–1900, English musicologist.
- grovy — Pertaining to or characterised by groves; situated in a grove.
- growe — Archaic spelling of grow.
- growl — to utter a deep guttural sound of anger or hostility: The dog growled at the mail carrier.
- grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
- grows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grow.
- grubs — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- gruds — (slang, New Zealand) Underpants, underwear.
- gruel — a light, usually thin, cooked cereal made by boiling meal, especially oatmeal, in water or milk.
- grues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grue.
- gruff — low and harsh; hoarse: a gruff voice.
- gruft — (dialect) the particles of soil that are spattered up onto grass by the rain.
- gruid — (zoology) Any member of the Gruidae.
- grume — blood when viscous.
- grump — a person given to constant complaining.
- grunt — to utter the deep, guttural sound characteristic of a hog.
- grush — healthy; thriving.
- gsusa — Girl Scouts of the United States of America
- guaco — a climbing composite plant, Mikania guaco, of tropical America.
- guage — Misspelling of gauge.
- guana — (US) A contraction of iguana (the lizard) made in British colonial America.
- guano — a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found especially on islands near the Peruvian coast.
- guans — Plural form of guan.
- guara — A bird, the scarlet ibis.
- guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- guare — John, born 1938, U.S. playwright.
- guasa — The jewfish.
- guat. — Guatemala
- guava — any of numerous tropical and subtropical American trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Psidium, of the myrtle family, especially P. guajava, bearing large, yellow, round to pear-shaped fruit, and P. littorale, bearing smaller, yellowish to deep-red, oval fruit.
- gucky — slimy and mucky
- gudea — flourished c2250 b.c, Sumerian ruler.
- gudes — God.
- guess — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
- guest — Edgar A(lbert) 1881–1959, U.S. journalist and writer of verse, born in England.
- gueux — a league of Dutch and Flemish patriots, composed chiefly of nobles and formed in 1566 to resist the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition into the Netherlands.
- guffs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of guff.
- gugas — Plural form of guga.