5 Letter Words That Start With GU

guide

Noun : Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.

Noun : A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.

Noun : A sign that guides people; guidepost.

guile

Noun : (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.

Noun : Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.

Verb : To deceive, beguile, bewile.

guise

Noun : A customary way of speaking or acting; a fashion, a manner, a practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)

Noun : An external appearance in manner or dress; an appropriate indication or expression; a garb; a shape.

Noun : A misleading appearance; a cover, a cloak.

guilt

Noun : Responsibility for wrongdoing.

Noun : (law) The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.

Noun : Regret for having done wrong.

gully

Noun : A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.

Noun : A small valley.

Noun : (UK) A drop kerb.

gulch

Verb : (obsolete) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.

Verb : (obsolete) To fall heavily.

Noun : A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.

guard

Noun : A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.

Noun : (Ireland) A garda; a police officer.

Noun : (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.

gutsy

Adjective : (informal) Marked by courage, determination or boldness in the face of difficulties or danger; having guts.

Adjective : (of the voice) From the gut; deep and often coarse.

gusto

Noun : Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor.

Noun : (rare) An individual's fondness or liking of a particular flavour

Noun : (Of art) The style in which a work is done, artistic style. (occasionally) the prevailing style in matters of taste.

guest

Noun : A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.

Noun : A patron or customer in a hotel etc.

Noun : An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.

gulag

Noun : (historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).

Noun : (by extension)

Noun : A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.

guild

Noun : A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages, established to oversee and protect their specific commercial interests and to provide mutual aid.

Noun : A corporation.

Noun : (ecology) A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits.

gurge

Verb : (obsolete) To swallow up.

Noun : (obsolete outside heraldry) Synonym of gurges (“whirlpool”).

gushy

Adjective : Gushing; effusive and often emotional.

Adjective : (uncommon) Tending to gush, to produce a large flow of liquid.

gummy

Adjective : Showing the gums.

Noun : (Australia, New Zealand) A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth.

Adjective : Resembling gum (the substance).

gusty

Adjective : Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.

Adjective : (figuratively) Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression.

Adjective : (figuratively) Bombastic, verbose.

gutty

Adjective : (heraldry) Charged or sprinkled with drops.

Adjective : Gutsy; brave.

Adjective : Having a prominent gut.

gumph

Noun : A foolish person; a gump.

Noun : (uncountable, slang) Nonsense.

Noun : (uncountable) Gumption; grit.

gumbo

Noun : (countable) Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.

Noun : (countable) A soup or stew popular in Louisiana, consisting of a strong stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener (often okra), and the "Holy Trinity" of celery, bell peppers, and onions.

Noun : (uncountable) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.

guppy

Noun : A tiny freshwater fish, Poecilia reticulata, popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males. The guppies can vary in size, but males are 4 cm (1.6”) and females are 7 cm (2.8”).

Noun : (by extension) Any tiny fish.

Noun : (paintball) A tube holding paintballs before they are loaded into the gun.

gunny

Noun : (uncountable) A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp.

Noun : (countable) A gunny sack.

Noun : (countable, informal) A gunnery sergeant.

gunge

Noun : (UK, Ireland) A viscous or sticky substance, particularly an unpleasant one of vague or unknown composition; goo; gunk.

Noun : (organic chemistry, informal) Tholin.

Verb : (often with up) To clog with gunge.

gular

Adjective : (chiefly zoology) Particularly of an animal: of, pertaining to, or located at the gula (“the upper front of the neck next to the chin”) or the throat.

Noun : (zoology) A plate or scale in the throat region of the body of a fish or reptile (especially a snake).

Noun : (India) Synonym of cluster fig (“Ficus racemosa, a species of plant in the family Moraceae; the edible fruit of this plant”).

guara

Noun : A maned wolf, of species Chrysocyon brachyurus (syn. Canis jubatus), native to much of subtropical central South America, east of the Andes.

Noun : A bird, the scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber, native to the tropical Atlantic coast of South America.

gusts

Noun : A strong, abrupt rush of wind.

Noun : (by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.).

Verb : (intransitive, transitive) To blow in gusts.

guava

Noun : A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava.

Noun : Its yellowish tropical fruit, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies.

Noun : A medium reddish-pink color, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink).

guess

Verb : To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.

Verb : To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.

Verb : (chiefly US) to suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).

guano

Noun : Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.

Noun : Coccothrinax borhidiana, a variety of palm tree indigenous to Cuba.

Noun : (obsolete) A variety of seabird.

guyot

Noun : (oceanography) A flat-topped seamount.

Noun : A surname from French.

guido

Noun : A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Guy.

Noun : (slang, US, ethnic slur) A stereotypical working-class or lower-class and usually urban-dwelling Italian-American male; sometimes more generally a stereotypical Italian or person of Italian descent.

Noun : (US, aerospace, slang) A guidance officer.

guyed

Adjective : Fitted with or attached to a guy.

Adjective : Fitted to serve as a guy.

gurus

Noun : In Indian traditions: a spiritual teacher who transmits knowledge to a shishya.

Noun : (India) Any general teacher (as a term of respect).

Noun : (sometimes humorous) An influential advisor or mentor.

gulph

Noun : (hypercorrect) Obsolete spelling of gulf. [A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.]

Verb : Alternative form of gulf [(transitive) To engulf.]

gulpy

Adjective : Inclined to gulp.

gunky

Adjective : (colloquial) greasy, messy or dirty.

guige

Noun : A strap attached to a shield, used to hang the shield over the shoulder or from the neck.

guage

Noun : Misspelling of gauge. [A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard]

gumba

Noun : (US, slang) Alternative form of goombah [(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent (often implies the person is connected to Italian organized crime)]

Noun : Alternative form of goombay [(music, dance, Bahamas, countable) A type of traditional Bahamian drum.]

gules

Noun : (heraldry) Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines.

Adjective : (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour red.

gutta

Noun : (architecture) A small water-repelling, cone-shaped projection used in the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture.

Noun : A small round spot of colour.

gum up

Verb : (intransitive) To become gooey or gummy.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to be gooey or gummy, especially with the effect of obstructing the operation of some mechanism or process.

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic, by extension) To make non-functional; to interfere with or put into a state of disorder; to ruin.

gupta

Noun : An Indian surname.

gurry

Noun : (historical, India) A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time.

Noun : (historical, India) The time interval indicated by striking the gurry. Originally, this was twenty-two and a half minutes, but later, under British influence, changed to an hour.

Noun : (India) A small fort.

guaco

Noun : Any of various vine-like climbing plants of Central and South America and the West Indies, including Mikania and Aristolochia species, reputed to have curative powers.

gulfy

Adjective : Characterized by or full of gulfs or whirlpools.

gulps

Noun : The usual amount swallowed.

Noun : The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear.

Noun : (rare, computing) An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.

gumby

Noun : (climbing, slang, sometimes derogatory) An inexperienced climber.

gulfs

Noun : A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.

Noun : (obsolete) That which swallows; the gullet.

Noun : That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.

gulty

gunch

Verb : (pinball) To maneuver one's body while playing, in an attempt to influence the path of the ball.

gurts

Noun : (UK, dialect, West Country, Devon, dated) groats; hulled grain

gunda

Noun : Alternative form of goonda [(South Asia, colloquial) A hired thug.]

gungy

Adjective : Having the texture or feel of gunge; gooey or gunky.

gunga

Noun : Dated form of ganja. [(slang, especially India, Singapore, Caribbean) Marijuana, as used for smoking.]

gurly

Adjective : (Scotland) Fierce and stormy.

Adjective : (Scotland) Unfriendly, irritable, surly.

Adjective : Alternative form of girly [Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, gentle; unmasculine.]

guber

Adjective : (Nigeria, politics) Clipping of gubernatorial. [Of or pertaining to a governor.]

gujar

Noun : A member of a nomadic community of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Noun : A surname from India.

Noun : A male given name of Indian usage.

gunna

Noun : a 2005 Indian Kannada-language romantic action drama film directed by Dwarki featuring Mayur Patel and Chaitra Hallikeri in the lead roles.

Noun : Sergio Giavanni Kitchens (born June 14, 1993), known professionally as Gunna, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.

guapo

Noun : Alternative form of gwop [(African-American Vernacular, MTE, MLE, slang) money, moola]

gucky

Adjective : (slang) Resembling or covered in muck or goo.

gunja

Noun : A municipality of Croatia.

Noun : (Australian Aboriginal) Pronunciation spelling of ganja. [(slang, especially India, Singapore, Caribbean) Marijuana, as used for smoking.]

guzla

Noun : Alternative spelling of gusle [(music) A single-stringed lute-like musical instrument with a bowl-shaped body, held vertically in the lap and played with a bow, originating among the Slavic peoples in the Balkans, especially in the Dinarides region.]

gugel

Noun : (historical) A type of hood with a liripipe (a trailing point), popularly worn in medieval Germany.

Noun : A surname.

gulet

Noun : Alternative form of goelette [A schooner.]

gural

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Alternative form of goral [A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus.]

guale

Noun : A member of a historic Native American tribe of the North American Sea Islands.

Noun : The language of this tribe.

gurls

Noun : (LGBTQ slang) Term of address between cis gay men, transgender women, or drag queens.

Noun : (LGBTQ) A trans girl or woman.

Verb : (Scotland, Ireland) To growl or snarl.

gusht

Verb : Obsolete spelling of gushed.

gumma

Noun : (pathology) a soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis.

Noun : Alternative form of Gunma [A prefecture of Japan. Capital: Maebashi.]

gussy

Verb : (chiefly US) To dress up or decorate in a showy way.

Noun : (Internet slang, vulgar, humorous) The vagina of a woman.

Noun : (Internet slang, vulgar, humorous, LGBTQ) The anus of a woman, especially but not exclusively a trans woman.

gulls

Noun : (soccer, informal) Torquay United F. C., a football club from Torquay, England.

guelf

Noun : Alternative spelling of Guelph [(historical, politics) In the politics of medieval Italian city states, any member of a faction that supported the Pope in a long struggle against the Ghibellines and the Holy Roman Emperor.]

guana

Noun : (archaic) An iguana.

guama

Noun : (Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial) maternal grandmother; maternal grandma

guiro

Noun : Synonym of sekere

Noun : (music) A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound.

Noun : (music) A genre of traditional Cuban music, used in santería rituals.

guida

Noun : A surname.

guyon

Noun : A surname from French.

guevi

Noun : (zoology) Any pygmy antelope of the genus Cephalophus, the duikers, of Africa.

guiac

Noun : Alternative form of guaiac [(medicine) A paper treated with alpha-guaiaconic acid, used in tests to detect blood in the faeces.]

gulas

Noun : The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.

Noun : (zoology) A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.

Noun : (architecture) A capping moulding; a cymatium.

gummi

Noun : A sugary, gelatinous material used to make candies.

Noun : A candy made of this material.

Noun : A cannabis-infused gummi candy.

gundi

Noun : Any of the several rodents of the family Ctenodactylidae.

gundy

Noun : A surname.

Noun : (Trinidad and Tobago) A front claw of a crab.

Noun : (India) A true bug (genus Leptocorisa), known for being a pest on rice and for its unpleasant smell.

gurmy

gurps

Noun : (gaming) Initialism of Generic Universal RolePlaying System.

guion

Noun : A surname from French.

gunby

Noun : A hamlet in Bubwith parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7135).

Noun : A hamlet in Candlesby with Gunby parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF4766).

Noun : A hamlet in Gunby and Stainby parish, South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK9121).

guans

Noun : Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina, and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas.

Noun : A surname.

guist

Verb : Obsolete form of joust. [To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.]

guyle

guidi

Noun : A surname from Italian.

guinn

Noun : A surname.

guoyu

Noun : The standardized spoken Chinese language, also referred to as Standard Mandarin. The term remains in common use in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and colloquially in Hong Kong (along with Putonghua). In mainland China, Guoyu or Taiwan Guoyu is used to refer to Taiwanese Mandarin (standard), as opposed to mainland standard Mandarin.

Noun : (historical) The language the Emperor of China spoke.

gurka

Noun : A surname.

guyer

Noun : A surname.

guasa

Noun : The jewfish, Epinephelus itajara.

gucci

Adjective : (hip-hop slang) Good; copacetic

Noun : A surname from Italian.

Noun : An Italian luxury fashion house.

guimp

Noun : Alternative form of guimpe [Gimp; a narrow flat braid or reinforced cord of fabric used for ornamental trimming.]

gumps

Noun : an acronym widely used by retractable gear aircraft pilots as a mental checklist to ensure nothing critical has been forgotten before landing.

gueux

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