5-letter words starting with g
- ginzo — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian origin or descent.
- giono — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1895–1970, French novelist.
- gipon — jupon.
- gippo — (British, offensive, slang) A Gypsy.
- gippy — an Egyptian person or thing
- gipsy — a member of a nomadic, Caucasoid people of generally swarthy complexion, who migrated originally from India, settling in various parts of Asia, Europe, and, most recently, North America.
- girds — Plural form of gird.
- girls — Plural form of girl.
- girly — featuring nude or scantily clad young women: a girlie show; girlie magazines.
- girlz — Informal spelling of girls.
- giron — a charge consisting of the lower half of a diagonally divided quarter, usually in the top left corner of the shield
- giros — Alternative form of gyro.
- girsh — qirsh.
- girth — the measure around anything; circumference.
- girts — Plural form of girt.
- gismo — a gadget or device: What is this gismo supposed to do?
- gists — (rare) Plural form of gist.
- gitch — (Saskatchewan) Women's or men's underwear.
- gites — Plural form of gite.
- gitgo — start; beginning: to work hard from the git-go.
- gitim — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
- gitmo — Guantánamo: referring more specifically to the detainment camp run there by the US military, in which suspected terrorists are detained and questioned
- gitty — A narrow, pedestrian, passageway in a residential area, between high brick walls, wooden fences, hedges, etc.
- giuen — Past participle of giue; obsolete spelling of given.
- giuki — a king, the father of Gudrun and Gunnar and the husband of Grimhild.
- gived — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of give.
- given — past participle of give.
- giver — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- gives — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- givey — (especially of soil) moist, soft, or spongy.
- gizmo — gismo.
- gjuki — a king, the father of Gudrun and Gunnar and the husband of Grimhild.
- glace — frozen.
- glade — an open space in a forest.
- glads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glad.
- glady — resembling a glade
- glaik — a flash of light
- glair — the white of an egg.
- glama — the longest river in Norway, flowing S to the Skagerrak. 365 miles (587 km) long.
- gland — a sleeve within a stuffing box, fitted over a shaft or valve stem and tightened against compressible packing in such a way as to prevent leakage of fluid while allowing the shaft or stem to move; lantern ring.
- glans — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- glare — a bright, smooth surface, as of ice.
- glark — /glark/ To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally "glork"; the context was "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hackish usage mutated the verb to "glark" because glork was already an established jargon term. Compare grok, zen.
- glary — smooth and slippery, as ice.
- glass — Carter, 1858–1946, U.S. statesman.
- glatt — (Yinglish, of an animal, Judaism) Having none of a particular kind of adhesion on the outside of its lungs; only meat from a glatt animal can be kosher.
- glaum — to snatch at something
- glaur — mud or mire
- glave — glaive.
- glaze — to furnish or fill with glass: to glaze a window.