5-letter words starting with g
- games — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gamey — having the tangy flavor or odor of game: I like the gamy taste of venison.
- gamic — sexual (def 3).
- gamin — a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
- gamma — the third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ).
- gammy — disabled; lame: a gammy leg.
- gamo- — indicating sexual union or reproduction
- gamow — George, 1904–68, U.S. nuclear physicist and writer, born in Russia.
- gamps — an umbrella.
- gamut — the entire scale or range: the gamut of dramatic emotion from grief to joy.
- ganca — a city in NW Azerbaijan.
- gance — Abel (abɛl). 1889–1981, French film director, whose works include J'accuse (1919, 1937) and Napoléon (1927), which introduced the split-screen technique
- ganch — the spiked or hooked apparatus used to impale a criminal
- ganda — Luganda.
- ganef — a thief, swindler, crook, or rascal.
- ganga — (dated) sandgrouse.
- gangs — Plural form of gang.
- ganja — marijuana, especially in the form of a potent preparation used chiefly for smoking.
- ganna — (South African English) A plant that used to be used in soap-making.
- gansu — a province in N central China. 137,104 sq. mi. (355,099 sq. km). Capital: Lanzhou.
- gaols — Plural form of gaol.
- gaped — to stare with open mouth, as in wonder.
- gaper — a person or thing that gapes.
- gapes — a wide opening; gap; breach.
- gappy — Having many gaps.
- garbe — a wheat-sheaf
- garbo — Greta (Greta Lovisa Gustaffson) 1905–90, U.S. film actress, born in Sweden.
- garbs — Plural form of garb.
- garda — Lake, a lake in N Italy: the largest lake in Italy. 35 miles (56 km) long; 143 sq. mi. (370 sq. km).
- garde — Obsolete form of guard.
- garms — garments
- garni — garnished.
- garre — to compel; cause
- garth — a male given name.
- garum — A fish sauce popular in Ancient Rome.
- gaser — Alternative form of graser.
- gases — Plural form of gas.
- gaspe — a town in SE Quebec, in E Canada on the NE end of the Gaspé Peninsula.
- gasps — Plural form of gasp.
- gaspt — (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of gasp.
- gaspy — tending to gasp
- gassy — full of or containing gas.
- gatch — A form of plaster of Paris formerly used in Persia.
- gated — (of patterns in a foundry mold) linked by gates.
- gater — Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- gates — Bill Gates
- gatha — one of several groups of hymns (the Gathas) forming the oldest part of the Avesta.
- gator — Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- gatun — a town in the N Canal Zone of Panama.
- gaucy — plump; portly