Words That Start With GA

game

Noun : A playful or competitive activity.

Noun : A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.

Noun : (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.

gauge

Noun : A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard

Noun : An act of measuring.

Noun : An estimate.

galore

Adjective : (postpositive) In abundance.

Noun : (archaic) An abundance; plenty.

gas

Noun : (uncountable, chemistry) Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.

Noun : (uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles, especially natural gas.

Noun : (uncountable, military) Poison gas.

gate

Noun : A doorlike structure outside a house.

Noun : Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.

Noun : Movable barrier.

gap

Noun : An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.

Noun : An opening allowing passage or entrance.

Noun : An opening that implies a breach or defect.

garden

Noun : An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

Noun : (in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

Noun : (attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.

gait

Noun : Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving on legs.

Noun : (equestrianism) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.

Verb : To teach a specific gait to a horse.

gamut

Noun : A (normally) complete range.

Noun : (music) All the notes in a musical scale.

Noun : All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

gambit

Noun : (chess) An opening in chess in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage.

Noun : Any ploy or stratagem.

Noun : A remark intended to open a conversation.

garner

Noun : A granary; a store of grain.

Noun : An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.

Verb : To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.

gay

Noun : An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.

Noun : A female given name from English from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.

Noun : A male given name from English. Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.

gain

Verb : (transitive) To acquire possession of.

Verb : (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.

Verb : (transitive, dated) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.

gall

Noun : (anatomy, dated) A gallbladder.

Noun : (uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.

Noun : (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.

gage

Verb : To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.

Verb : (archaic) To bet or wager (something).

Verb : (obsolete) To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.

gallery

Noun : An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.

Noun : An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.

Noun : The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.

gather

Verb : To collect; normally separate things.

Verb : Especially, to harvest food.

Verb : To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.

gasp

Verb : (intransitive) To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.

Verb : (intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion; to respire with heaving of the breast; to pant.

Verb : (transitive) To speak in a breathless manner.

games

Noun : (sports, informal) The Olympic Games.

gaze

Verb : (intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly.

Verb : (transitive, poetic) To stare at.

Noun : A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.

gang

Verb : (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To go; walk; proceed.

Noun : A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

Noun : A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad or workgang.

gauche

Adjective : Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.

Adjective : (mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.

Adjective : (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°.

gauntlet

Noun : Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.

Noun : A long glove covering the wrist.

Noun : (nautical) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.

gainsay

Verb : (transitive, formal) To say something in contradiction to.

galaxy

Noun : (now rare) The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.

Noun : (astronomy) Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe.

Noun : (figuratively) An assemblage of things or people seen as luminous or brilliant.

gag

Noun : A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.

Noun : (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.

Noun : (figurative) Any suppression of freedom of speech.

galvanize

Verb : (chemistry) To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means.

Verb : To coat with rust-resistant zinc.

Verb : (figurative) To shock or stimulate into sudden activity, as if by electric shock.

gallant

Adjective : Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.

Adjective : honorable.

Adjective : grand, noble.

gale

Verb : (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cry; groan; croak.

Verb : (intransitive, of a person, now chiefly dialectal) To talk.

Verb : (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; utter with musical modulations.

garrulous

Adjective : Excessively or tiresomely talkative.

Adjective : (of something written or performed) Excessively wordy and rambling.

gadget

Noun : (obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.

Noun : Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.

Noun : (informal) Any consumer electronics product.

gaudy

Adjective : Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.

Adjective : (obsolete) Fun; merry; festive.

Noun : (archaic) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

gala

Adjective : Celebratory; festive.

Noun : (uncountable) Pomp, show, or festivity.

Noun : A competition

gaffe

Noun : A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public.

gaunt

Adjective : Lean, angular, and bony.

Adjective : Haggard, drawn, and emaciated.

Adjective : Bleak, barren, and desolate.

garage

Noun : A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

Noun : (chiefly Commonwealth, dated, in US) A place where cars are serviced and repaired.

Noun : (chiefly Commonwealth) A petrol filling station.

garish

Adjective : Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.

gaulding

gad

Verb : (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.

Verb : (of cattle) To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.

Noun : One who roams about idly; a gadabout.

gateway

Noun : An entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate.

Noun : A place regarded as giving access to somewhere.

Noun : Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.

garment

Noun : A single item of clothing.

Noun : (figurative) The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied.

Verb : (transitive) To clothe in a garment.

gambol

Verb : (intransitive) To move about playfully; to frolic.

Verb : (Britain, West Midlands) To do a forward roll.

Noun : An instance of running or skipping about playfully.

gab

Noun : Idle chatter.

Noun : The mouth or gob.

Noun : One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.

gaff

Noun : A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.

Noun : A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.

Noun : A trick or con.

garrison

Noun : A permanent military post.

Noun : The troops stationed at such a post.

Noun : (allusive) Occupants.

garde

Noun : Obsolete form of guard. [A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.]

Verb : Obsolete form of guard. [(transitive) To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.]

gathering

Noun : A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.

Noun : A group of people or things.

Noun : (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.

gape

Verb : (intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.

Verb : (intransitive) To stare in wonder.

Verb : (intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap.

gable

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

Noun : (obsolete) A cable.

Noun : A surname.

gaude

garland

Noun : A circular or linear decoration, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.

Noun : An accolade or mark of honour.

Noun : (mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.

garnish

Verb : To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.

Verb : (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.

Verb : (archaic) To furnish; to supply.

gander

Noun : A male goose.

Noun : A fool, simpleton.

Noun : (informal) A glance, look.

gaggle

Noun : (collective) A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.

Noun : (by extension) Any group or gathering of related things.

Verb : To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.

garret

Noun : An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.

Noun : A male given name

gash

Noun : A deep cut.

Noun : (slang, vulgar) A vulva.

Noun : (slang, uncountable, offensive, derogatory) A woman.

gadfly

Noun : Any dipterous (“two-winged”) insect or fly of the family Oestridae (commonly known as a botfly) or Tabanidae (horsefly), noted for irritating animals by buzzing about them, and biting them to suck their blood; a gadbee.

Noun : (figuratively, also attributively)

Noun : A person or thing that irritates or instigates.

gawk

Noun : A cuckoo.

Noun : A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.

Verb : To stare or gape stupidly.

gar

Noun : (especially US, Canada) Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.

Noun : (especially UK, Ireland) A garfish, Belone belone.

Verb : (now chiefly UK dialectal) To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done).

gaelic

Noun : Goidelic; any Goidelic language.

Noun : Irish Gaelic.

Noun : Manx Gaelic.

garbage

Noun : Food waste material of any kind.

Noun : Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

Noun : A place or receptacle for waste material.

gaffer

Noun : (film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.

Noun : A glassblower.

Noun : (colloquial) An old man.

garb

Noun : Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.

Noun : A type of dress or clothing.

Noun : (figurative) A guise, external appearance.

gamete

Noun : (cytology) A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.

gal

Noun : (colloquial) A young woman.

Noun : A galileo (unit of acceleration).

Noun : Abbreviation of gallon. [A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints]

gaul

Noun : (chiefly historical) A historical region roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine.

Noun : A person from Gaul.

gaslighting

Noun : a colloquialism, loosely defined as making someone question their own reality.

gaiter

Noun : A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep.

Noun : A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.

Noun : Part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop.

gamin

Noun : (dated, also attributively) A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally), a cheeky, street-smart boy.

gantry

Noun : A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.

Noun : A supporting framework for a barrel.

Noun : A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.

gam

Noun : (slang) A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg.

Noun : Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod.

Noun : (by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships).

gat

Noun : (archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.

Noun : (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol.

Verb : (slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.

galley

Noun : (nautical, historical) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually a rowed warship used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.

Noun : (Britain) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.

Noun : (nautical) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.

galling

Adjective : Vexing, humiliating; eliciting indignation or bitterness.

Noun : Material transfer caused by adhesion between sliding surfaces, potentially resulting in wear or binding.

gargantuan

Adjective : Huge; immense; tremendous.

Adjective : (obsolete) Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.

Adjective : Alternative letter-case form of gargantuan [Huge; immense; tremendous.]

gallop

Noun : The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.

Noun : An act or instance of going or running rapidly.

Noun : (cardiology) An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.

gazette

Noun : A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically.

Noun : (law, often capitalized and italicized in legislations) A official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.

Verb : To publish in a gazette.

gazebo

Noun : A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.

gaming

Noun : Synonym of gambling

Noun : Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.

Noun : The playing of a game or games, including but not limited to video games and games of chance.

gazelle

Noun : An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa) or Procapra (native to Asia), capable of running at high speeds for long periods.

Noun : A census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, United States.

ganglion

Noun : (neuroanatomy)

Noun : An encapsulated collection of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber.

Noun : Any of certain masses of gray matter in the central nervous system, as the basal ganglia.

gaol

Noun : (Commonwealth) Dated spelling of jail.

Verb : (Commonwealth) Dated spelling of jail.

garnet

Noun : (mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.

Noun : A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.

Adjective : Of a dark red colour.

garlic

Noun : A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.

Noun : (uncountable) A preparation from Allium sativum used as a food ingredient or the flavor or other characteristics of such an ingredient.

Verb : To flavour with garlic

gafs

Verb : (Internet slang) Initialism of give a fuck. [(idiomatic, vulgar, chiefly in the negative) To care; to give a shit.]

Noun : Alternative spelling of gaff (“place of residence, house”) [A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.]

gatekeeper

Noun : A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.

Noun : A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.

Noun : A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.

gavel

Noun : (historical) Rent.

Noun : (obsolete) Usury; interest on money.

Noun : (historical) An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally; also called gavelkind.

gallows

Noun : Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging.

Noun : (colloquial, obsolete) A wretch who deserves to be hanged.

Noun : (printing, obsolete) The rest for the tympan when raised.

gauze

Noun : A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.

Noun : (medicine) A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.

Noun : A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.

gaslight

Noun : A lamp which operates by burning piped illuminating gas (or town gas).

Noun : The light produced by the burning gas in such a lamp.

Verb : (chiefly transitive) To manipulate someone such that they doubt their own memory, perceptions of reality, or sanity, typically for malevolent reasons.

gaga

Adjective : (informal) Mentally senile.

Adjective : (informal) Crazy.

Adjective : (informal) Infatuated.

gamble

Noun : A bet or wager.

Noun : A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain.

Noun : A risky venture.

gannet

Noun : Any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family Sulidae. They have black and white bodies and long pointed wings, and hunt for fish by plunge diving and pursuing their prey underwater.

Noun : (chiefly Britain, South Africa) A voracious eater; a glutton.

Verb : (chiefly transitive, informal, Britain) To wolf down, gobble or eat (something) voraciously.

gauss

Noun : The unit of magnetic field strength in CGS systems of units, equal to 0.0001 tesla.

Noun : A surname, most commonly referring to German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855).

galileo

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

Noun : Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), an Italian thinker and key figure in the scientific revolution who improved the telescope, made astronomical observations, and put forward the basic principle of relativity in physics.

gangrene

Noun : The necrosis or rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.

Noun : (figuratively) A damaging or corrupting influence.

Verb : (transitive) To produce gangrene in.

ganache

Noun : A rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze.

Noun : (historical) A kind of surcoat with short cap sleeves.

ganja

Noun : (slang, India, Singapore, Jamaica) marijuana, as used for smoking.

Noun : The second largest city of Azerbaijan; the birthplace of the great Persian poet Nezami.

gasket

Noun : (sailing) A length of rope or canvas band used for reefing a sail, or holding a stowed sail in place.

Noun : (mechanics) Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.

Noun : A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration.

gaia

Noun : (ecology) The ecosystem of the Earth regarded as a self-regulating superorganism.

Noun : (Greek mythology) A Greek goddess, the personification of the earth, and one of the primordial deities from whom all the others descend.

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