7-letter words starting with g
- geordie — a native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
- georgia — a state in the SE United States. 58,876 sq. mi. (152,489 sq. km). Capital: Atlanta. Abbreviation: GA (for use with zip code), Ga.
- georgic — agricultural.
- geraint — one of the knights of the Round Table, husband of Enid.
- gerbera — any of various composite plants of the genus Gerbera, native to Africa and Asia, having showy, many-rayed flowers ranging from yellow to red.
- gerbils — Plural form of gerbil.
- gerenuk — a reddish-brown antelope, Litocranius walleri, of eastern Africa, having a long, slender neck.
- gergiev — Valery Abesalovich. born 1953, Russian conductor; musical director of the Kirov (now the Mariinsky) Opera from 1988; principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (2007–15)
- germain — a female given name.
- germane — closely or significantly related; relevant; pertinent: Please keep your statements germane to the issue.
- germans — Plural form of german.
- germany — a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 137,852 sq. mi. (357,039 sq. km). Capital: Berlin.
- germina — a germ.
- gerroff — (dialect, slang) Get off.
- gershom — the elder son of Moses and Zipporah. Ex. 18:3.
- gertcha — get out of here!
- gerunds — Plural form of gerund.
- gervais — (sometimes initial capital letter) an unsalted French cream cheese made from whole milk and cream.
- gerzean — of or relating to the predynastic, Aeneolithic culture of Upper Egypt c3600–3200 b.c., characterized by an emphasis on agriculture and fishing and the use of foreign artifacts and materials.
- gessoed — Plastered with gesso.
- gestalt — a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.
- gestant — laden or burdened
- gestapo — the German state secret police during the Nazi regime, organized in 1933 and notorious for its brutal methods and operations.
- gestate — to carry in the womb during the period from conception to delivery.
- gestour — (obsolete) A reciter of gests or legendary tales.
- gesture — a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.: the gestures of an orator; a threatening gesture.
- get hot — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- get off — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- get out — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
- get set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- get-out — Commerce. the break-even point.
- get.com — (operating system) A command which can be created using debug in MS DOS to set the errorlevel according to which key is pressed. The errorlevel can then be interrogated from a batch file by a series of commands like this: get if errorlevel 118 goto E118 if errorlevel 117 goto E117 if errorlevel 116 goto E116 if errorlevel 115 goto E115 if errorlevel 114 goto E114 where E118 etc. are labels in the batch file.
- getaway — a getting away or fleeing; an escape.
- getters — Plural form of getter.
- getteth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'get'.
- getting — Present participle of get.
- gewgaws — Plural form of gewgaw.
- geysers — Plural form of geyser.
- ghanian — a republic in West Africa comprising the former colonies of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, the protectorate of the Northern Territories, and the U.N. trusteeship of British Togoland: member of the Commonwealth of Nations since 1957. 91,843 sq. mi. (237,873 sq. km). Capital: Accra.
- gharial — gavial.
- ghastly — shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
- ghazali — Al- [al] /æl/ (Show IPA), 1058–1111, Arab philosopher.
- ghazals — Plural form of ghazal.
- gheraos — Plural form of gherao.
- gherkin — the small, immature fruit of a variety of cucumber, used in pickling.
- ghettos — a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
- ghillie — a low-cut, tongueless shoe with loops instead of eyelets for the laces, which cross the instep and are sometimes tied around the ankle.
- ghosted — Simple past tense and past participle of ghost.
- ghostly — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
- ghoulie — a goblin