English Words: G
18,276 words · Page 3 of 366
Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
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).
The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).
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.
A kind of pattern used as a stimulus in experiments on vision, capable of being arranged to produce various optical illusions.
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.
A form of wavelet designed so as to minimize the product of its standard deviations in the time and frequency domain.
A chemical reaction that transforms primary alkyl halides into primary amines, traditionally by means of potassium phthalimide.
A triclinic-pinacoidal black mineral containing antimony, arsenic, copper, silver, sulfur, and thallium.
An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, iron, lead, and oxygen.
The Southeast Asian fruit Momordica cochinchinensis, a reddish spiny gourd with high lycopene content.
A system of community justice inspired by Rwandan tradition, used more recently in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
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.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "G" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.