6-letter words starting with g
- gatvol — annoyed; fed up
- gauche — lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless: Their exquisite manners always make me feel gauche.
- gaucho — a native cowboy of the South American pampas, usually of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry.
- gauded — Simple past tense and past participle of gaud.
- gaufer — a waffle
- gauged — to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.
- gauger — a person or thing that gauges.
- gauges — to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.
- gaulle — Charles André Joseph Marie [chahrlz ahn-drey joh-zuh f muh-ree;; French sharl ahn-drey zhoh-zef ma-ree] /tʃɑrlz ˈɑn dreɪ ˈdʒoʊ zəf məˈri;; French ʃarl ɑ̃ˈdreɪ ʒoʊˈzɛf maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1890–1970, French general and statesman: president 1959–69.
- gaults — Plural form of gault.
- gauzed — Simple past tense and past participle of gauze.
- gauzes — Plural form of gauze.
- gavage — forced feeding, as by a flexible tube and a force pump.
- gavels — Plural form of gavel.
- gavest — (archaic) second-person singular past of give.
- gavial — a large crocodilian, Gavialis gangeticus, of India and Pakistan, having elongated, garlike jaws: an endangered species.
- gawain — Arthurian Romance. one of the knights of the Round Table: a nephew of King Arthur.
- gawked — to stare stupidly; gape: The onlookers gawked at arriving celebrities.
- gawker — Someone who gawks, someone who stares stupidly.
- gawped — to stare with the mouth open in wonder or astonishment; gape: Crowds stood gawping at the disabled ship.
- gawper — One who gawps.
- gawpus — a clumsy or silly person
- gaydar — a person's purported intuitive or sensing ability to identify homosexuals.
- gayest — of, relating to, or exhibiting sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex; homosexual: a gay couple. Antonyms: straight.
- gayety — gaiety.
- gayish — Somewhat gay; gay to a certain extent.
- gayism — (rare) homosexuality.
- gazabo — a fellow; man; boy.
- gazang — (of the seller of a house) to inconvenience (a potential buyer) by withdrawing from an agreement to sell shortly before the purchase is completed
- gazebo — a structure, as an open or latticework pavilion or summerhouse, built on a site that provides an attractive view.
- gazers — to look steadily and intently, as with great curiosity, interest, pleasure, or wonder.
- gazing — to look steadily and intently, as with great curiosity, interest, pleasure, or wonder.
- gazump — to cheat (a house buyer) by raising the price, at the time a contract is to be signed, over the amount originally agreed upon.
- gdansk — a seaport in N Poland, on the Gulf of Danzig.
- gdynia — a seaport in N Poland, on the Gulf of Danzig.
- ge-645 — (computer) A computer built by General Electric, the successor to the GE-635, designed to provide the extra CPU features required by the Multics project. The GE-645 was designed in 1965 by John Couleur and Edward Glaser at MIT. It had several security levels and instructions for handling virtual memory. Addressing used an 18-bit segment in addition to the 18-bit address, dramatically increasing the theoretical memory size and making virtual memory easier to support. Design of the GE-645's successor, the GE-655, started in 1967.
- geared — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- geason — rare; uncommon
- geckos — Plural form of gecko.
- gedact — a flutelike stopped metal diapason organ pipe
- geddes — Norman Bel [bel] /bɛl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1958, U.S. industrial and stage designer and architect.
- geddit — Eye dialect of get it (As in,
- gee up — an exclamation, as to a horse or draught animal, to encourage it to turn to the right, go on, or go faster
- geebag — a disagreeable woman
- geegaw — gewgaw.
- geeing — Present participle of gee.
- geeked — a digital-technology expert or enthusiast (a term of pride as self-reference, but often used disparagingly by others).
- geekly — (rare) Concerning or typical of geeks.
- geezer — an odd or eccentric man: the old geezer who sells shoelaces on the corner.
- gehrig — Henry Louis ("Lou") 1903–41, U.S. baseball player.