6-letter words starting with g
- gareth — Arthurian Romance. nephew of King Arthur and a knight of the Round Table.
- garget — Veterinary Pathology. inflammation of the udder of a cow; bovine mastitis.
- gargle — to wash or rinse the throat or mouth with a liquid held in the throat and kept in motion by a stream of air from the lungs.
- garish — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- garlic — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- garmon — A kind of smaller Russian button accordion.
- garner — to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place.
- garnet — Henry Highland, 1815–82, U.S. clergyman and abolitionist.
- garote — to execute by the garrote.
- garous — Relating to, or resembling, garum.
- garply — /gar'plee/ A metasyntactic variable like foo, once popular among SAIL hackers.
- garred — Scot. to compel or force (someone) to do something.
- garret — spall (def 1).
- garron — A small, sturdy workhorse of a breed originating in Ireland and Scotland.
- garrot — A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
- garrya — any ornamental catkin-bearing evergreen shrub of the North American genus Garrya: family Garryaceae
- garter — Also called, British, sock suspender, suspender. an article of clothing for holding up a stocking or sock, usually an elastic band around the leg or an elastic strap hanging from a girdle or other undergarment.
- garuda — A large mythical bird or bird-like creature that appears in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology.Garuda is the son of Kadruva.
- garvey — a scowlike open boat, variously propelled, used by oyster and clam fishermen in Delaware Bay and off the coasts of Delaware and New Jersey.
- garvie — a sprat
- gas up — Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- gasbag — a bag for holding gas, as in a balloon or dirigible.
- gascon — a native of Gascony, France, the inhabitants of which were reputedly very boastful.
- gashed — Make a gash in; cut deeply.
- gasher — dreary or gloomy in appearance.
- gashes — a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
- gashly — hideous; ghastly
- gasify — Convert (a solid or liquid, especially coal) into gas.
- gasket — a rubber, metal, or rope ring, for packing a piston or placing around a joint to make it watertight.
- gaskin — a gasket.
- gaslit — gaslit (def 2).
- gasman — a person who works for a company that sells or distributes household gas, especially a person who goes from building to building reading gas meters to determine what charge is to be billed.
- gasmen — Plural form of gasman.
- gasped — a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.
- gasper — a cigarette.
- gassed — drunk.
- gasser — Herbert Spencer, 1888–1963, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1944.
- gasses — Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- gasted — to terrify or frighten.
- gaster — (in ants, bees, wasps, and other hymenopterous insects) the part of the abdomen behind the petiole.
- gaston — a male given name.
- gastr- — gastro-
- gastro — (colloquial, UK, Australia) Gastroenteritis.
- gateau — a cake, especially a very light sponge cake with a rich icing or filling.
- gaters — Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- gather — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- gathic — an ancient Iranian language of the Indo-European family; the language in which the Gathas were written. Compare Avestan.
- gating — a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- gators — Plural form of gator.
- gatsby — (South Africa) A snack consisting of a baguette filled with french fries, sauce, and other ingredients.