8-letter words starting with g
- gaoxiong — Kaohsiung.
- gap year — a period of time, usually an academic or calendar year, in which a student takes a break from school to travel, work, or volunteer, typically after ending high school and before starting college.
- gap-fill — In language teaching, a gap-fill test is an exercise in which words are removed from a text and replaced with spaces. The learner has to fill each space with the missing word or a suitable word.
- gapeseed — a daydream or reverie.
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- gapingly — In a gaping way.
- garaging — a building or indoor area for parking or storing motor vehicles.
- garagist — a person who owns a commercial garage
- garamond — a printing type designed in 1540 by Claude Garamond (c1480–1561), French type founder.
- garbaged — Simple past tense and past participle of garbage.
- garbages — discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
- garbagey — Like garbage; trashy, worthless.
- garbanzo — chickpea (def 1).
- garbling — Present participle of garble.
- garboard — The first range of planks or plates laid on a ship’s bottom next to the keel.
- garcinia — Mangosteen (of the genus Garcinia).
- gardened — Simple past tense and past participle of garden.
- gardener — a person who is employed to cultivate or care for a garden, lawn, etc.
- gardenia — any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers.
- gardiner — Samuel Rawson [raw-suh n] /ˈrɔ sən/ (Show IPA), 1829–1902, English historian.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- garganey — a small Old World duck, Anas querquedula.
- gargling — Present participle of gargle.
- gargoyle — a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
- garishly — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- garlands — Plural form of garland.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- garments — Plural form of garment.
- garnered — to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place.
- garofalo — Galofalo.
- garoting — to execute by the garrote.
- garotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garotter — garrote.
- garreted — having a garret or garrets
- garrison — William Lloyd, 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garroter — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garrotes — Plural form of garrote.
- garrotte — to execute by the garrote.
- gartered — 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.
- gas coal — a soft coal suitable for the production of gas.
- gas fire — A gas fire is a fire that produces heat by burning gas.
- gas laws — ideal gas law.
- gas lift — Gas lift is a method in which gas is injected into the production tubing (= tubes through which hydrocarbons flow to the surface) to allow liquids to enter the wellbore at a higher flow rate.
- gas main — a large pipe for conducting and distributing gas to lesser pipes or ducts, especially such a pipe carrying and distributing household gas beneath the streets of a town or city.
- gas mask — a masklike device containing or attached to a component that filters the air inhaled by the wearer through charcoal and chemicals, for protecting the face and lungs against noxious gases and fumes, as in warfare or in certain industrial processes.
- gas oven — a domestic oven heated by gas
- gas pipe — a metal pipe used to supply a building with gas