English Words: G

18,276 words · Page 15 of 366

galgenoun

A video game centered around interactions with attractive anime-style girls.

galinoun

An alleyway or side street.

Galibinoun

Synonym of Kari'na (“An indigenous people native to the north coast of South America”).

Galibi Caribname

Synonym of Kari'na (“An indigenous people native to the north coast of South America; also, their traditional language”).

Galiceaname

A commune of Vâlcea County, Romania.

Galichname

A town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, situated on the southern bank of Lake Galichskoye.

Galicianame

A former kingdom and autonomous community in northwestern Spain.

Galicianadj

Of, from or relating to Galicia, Spain.

Galiciannessnoun

The quality of being Galician.

galidesivirnoun

An antiviral drug that is nucleoside analog.

Galifronname

A character in "The Story of Pretty Goldilocks".

Galikname

An extension to the traditional Mongolian script, with extra characters for transcribing other languages.

Galileanadj

Of or pertaining to Galilee, or a native or inhabitant thereof.

Galilean telescopenoun

a type of refracting telescope (refractor) similar to the one used by Galileo Galilei.

Galileanismnoun

The beliefs or activities of the Galileans.

galileenoun

A narthex, particularly in the United Kingdom and the Church of England; a vestibule, a fully-enclosed yet porch-like structure, leading to the main body of an English ecclesiastical building.

Galileianadj

Alternative form of Galilean.

galileiitenoun

A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing iron, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.

galileonoun

The CGS unit of acceleration, equal to 1 centimetre per second per second (1 centimeter per second squared, 1cm/s^2). Symbol: Gal

Galileo fallacynoun

A fallacy whereby it is implied that one is correct due to being widely criticized or persecuted.

Galileo gambitnoun

Purposeful attraction of criticism or ridicule for the purpose of portraying one's argument as oppressed and therefore correct. Also, the argument that one is correct due to such opposition.

Galileo thermometernoun

A thermometer made of a sealed glass cylinder containing a clear liquid and several glass vessels of varying densities. As temperature changes, the individual floats rise or fall in proportion to their respective density.

Galileo's paradoxname

A demonstration of a surprising property of infinite sets. Some positive integers are squares while others are not; therefore, all the numbers, including both squares and non-squares, must be more numerous than just the squares; yet for every square there is exactly one positive number that is its square root, and for every number there is exactly one square; hence, there cannot be more of one than of the other.

galileonnoun

A theorised scalar field which is a local modification of gravity in some forms of string theory.

galimatiasnoun

nonsense, gobbledygook

Galinaname

A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Russian female given name Гали́на (Galína).

Galindoname

A surname from Spanish.

Galineers Cobnoun

Synonym of Gypsy horse.

galinergicadj

Activated by galanin

galingalenoun

Alternative spelling of galangal.

Galinskyname

A surname from Polish.

Galinstannoun

An alloy of gallium, indium and tin which is liquid at room temperature.

galiongeenoun

A Turkish sailor.

galiotnoun

Alternative spelling of galliot.

Galipedianame

The Galician-language edition of Wikipedia.

galipotnoun

An unrefined turpentine obtained from some European pines

Galisteoname

A municipality in Cáceres province, Extremadura, Spain.

galiumnoun

Any of the genus Galium of annual and perennial herbaceous plants, including the bedstraws.

galiximabnoun

A chimeric monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of B-cell lymphoma.

Galizaname

Alternative form of Galicia: A former kingdom and autonomous community in northwestern Spain

Galizanname

The Galician language.

galkhaitenoun

An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing antimony, arsenic, cesium, copper, mercury, sulfur, thallium, and zinc.

gallnoun

Impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.

gall and wormwoodnoun

bitterness and resentment

gall bladdernoun

A pear-shaped organ that stores bile from the liver, until the body needs it for the digestion and absorption of fats in the duodenum.

gall-lessadj

Without gall; free from gall or bitterness.

Gall-Peters projectionnoun

A form of cylindric equal-area map projection.

Gallaname

A surname.

Gallachername

A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Gallaecianname

Northwestern Hispano-Celtic, an extinct language of the Celtic family, spoken by the Gallaeci at the beginning of the first millennium CE in a north-western part of the Iberian Peninsula.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter G contains 18,276 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 366 pages, and you are currently viewing page 15. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

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