8-letter words starting with g
- gamboled — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- gambrels — Plural form of gambrel.
- gambroon — a type of twilled linen cloth, often used for lining clothes
- gambusia — any fish of the genus Gambusia, comprising small livebearers that feed on aquatic insect larvae and are used to control mosquitoes.
- game boy — a handheld games console, made by the company Nintendo, which was popular in the 1990s
- game law — a law enacted for the preservation of game, as by restricting the number and kinds of game that may be taken and by designating periods of the year when specified game may be taken.
- game pie — a savoury pie made from game or hunted animals
- gamecast — the broadcast of a team sport game.
- gamecock — a rooster of a fighting breed, or one bred and trained for fighting.
- gamefowl — A gamebird.
- gamelans — Plural form of gamelan.
- gamelike — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gameness — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gameplay — The tactical aspects of a computer game, such as its plot and the way it is played, as distinct from the graphics and sound effects.
- gamesman — a person who is skilled at manipulating events and circumstances to gain or maintain personal advantage, especially in business or politics.
- gamesome — playful; frolicsome.
- gamester — a gambler.
- gaminess — the taste or odor of game, especially when slightly tainted.
- gammoned — Simple past tense and past participle of gammon.
- gamodeme — an isolated breeding population
- gamyness — the quality of being gamy
- ganapati — (Hinduism) Lord of the demigods attending on Shiva. An epithet of Ganesha.
- gandhara — an ancient region in what is now NW Pakistan.
- gandhian — of or relating to Mohandas Gandhi or to Gandhiism.
- gang saw — a saw having several parallel blades for making simultaneous cuts.
- gang way — if someone calls out gang way! they are asking people to make way or clear a path
- gangbang — a series of acts of often forcible sexual intercourse engaged in by several persons successively with one passive partner.
- gangetic — a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Bay of Bengal: sacred to Hindus. 1550 miles (2495 km) long.
- gangland — the world of organized crime; criminal underworld.
- ganglial — Of or pertaining to a ganglion.
- ganglier — Comparative form of gangly.
- gangling — to move awkwardly or ungracefully: A tall, stiff-jointed man gangled past.
- ganglio- — ganglion
- ganglion — Anatomy. a mass of nerve tissue existing outside the central nervous system. any of certain masses of gray matter in the brain, as the basal ganglia.
- ganglord — The leader of a gang, especially a criminal organization.
- gangnail — a particular arrangement of nails on a metal plate, used as a connecting piece in strong timber joints
- gangrene — necrosis or death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition and putrefaction.
- gangsman — the foreman of a gang of workers
- gangstas — Plural form of gangsta.
- gangster — a member of a gang of criminals, especially a racketeer.
- gangways — Plural form of gangway.
- ganister — a highly refractory, siliceous rock used to line furnaces.
- gannetry — a gannet breeding-ground
- gantlets — Plural form of gantlet.
- gantline — a rope rove through a single block hung from a mast, funnel, etc., as a means of hoisting workers, tools, flags, or the like.
- gantlope — gauntlet2 .
- gantries — Plural form of gantry.
- ganymeda — Hebe.
- ganymede — Also, Ganymedes [gan-uh-mee-deez] /ˌgæn əˈmi diz/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus and taken to Olympus, where he was made the cupbearer of the gods and became immortal.
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.