English Words: G

18,276 words · Page 3 of 366

gabfestnoun

An occasion (such as a meeting) where people talk at length.

gabinoun

Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.

Gabi-Gabinoun

An Australian Aboriginal people of southwest Queensland.

gabillionnoun

An unspecified large number (of).

gabillionairenoun

An incredibly rich person.

Gabinianadj

Of or pertaining to the gens Gabinia, a plebeian family of Ancient Rome.

Gabinoname

A surname from Spanish.

gabionnoun

A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).

gabionagenoun

A structure made of gabions (cylinders filled with stones).

gabionedadj

Having gabions.

gablenoun

The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).

gable roofnoun

A single-ridge roof that terminates at gable ends.

gableboardnoun

Synonym of barge board.

gabledadj

Having one or more gables.

gablelikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a gable.

gabletnoun

A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.

gablewiseadv

In the manner or orientation of a gable.

gablocknoun

A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock.

Gabonname

A country in Central Africa. Official name: Gabonese Republic. Capital: Libreville.

Gabonesenoun

A person from Gabon or of Gabonese descent.

Gaboonname

Archaic form of Gabon.

Gaboon forest frognoun

A frog of species Scotobleps gabonicus, found in West Africa.

Gaborname

A surname from Hungarian.

Gabor atomnoun

A kind of function used in the analysis proposed by Dennis Gabor in 1946 in which a family of functions is built from translations and modulations of a generating function.

Gabor filternoun

A linear filter used for image texture analysis.

Gabor functionnoun

Synonym of Gabor atom.

Gabor patchnoun

A kind of pattern used as a stimulus in experiments on vision, capable of being arranged to produce various optical illusions.

Gabor transformnoun

A special case of the short-time Fourier transform, used to determine the sinusoidal frequency and phase content of local sections of a signal as it changes over time.

Gabor waveletnoun

A form of wavelet designed so as to minimize the product of its standard deviations in the time and frequency domain.

Gaboronename

The capital city of Botswana.

Gaboroniannoun

A native or resident of Gaborone, Botswana.

gaboxadolnoun

An experimental drug derived from muscimol, formerly being developed as a sleep aid.

Gabrnoun

Alternative form of Guebre.

gabraadj

Panicky and confused.

Gabrielname

A male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew].

Gabriel synthesisnoun

A chemical reaction that transforms primary alkyl halides into primary amines, traditionally by means of potassium phthalimide.

Gabriela Silangname

A barangay of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines.

Gabrielename

A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Gabriel.

Gabrielinonoun

Synonym of Tongva.

gabrielitenoun

A triclinic-pinacoidal black mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, silver, sulfur, and thallium.

Gabriellaname

A female given name from Hebrew from the Italian feminine form of Gabriel.

Gabriellename

A female given name from French.

gabrielsonitenoun

An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, lead, and oxygen.

Gabrishname

A surname from English.

gabsnoun

plural of gab

Gabuzdaname

A surname.

Gabyname

A female given name from French.

gacnoun

The Southeast Asian fruit Momordica cochinchinensis, a reddish spiny gourd with high lycopene content.

gacacanoun

A system of community justice inspired by Rwandan tradition, used more recently in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

Gaccioname

A surname from Italian.

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 3. 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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