9-Letter Words Starting with G

Gestate

Joking, perhaps, in the womb

Development (in womb)

Carrying a child back, say, to terminal

If furniture is to be had, buy it

Buy some furniture if it can be obtained

Find somewhere to sit within reach

More horrible

More dreadful

Gherao

Giantism

Towering

Giftware

PC storage units

Smartphone storage measure

Storage units

One billion cycles per second

Growing problem (wordplay)

Power grid measurement

Gildhall

Gilthead

Gimbal

Gimbal

Gewgaws

GIRAFFE a long-necked mammal

Reloading exploding fireworks

Do realign mispositioned chandelier

Wall ornament aligned or skew-whiff

Girasole

Sometime lucrative TV shows

Giveback

Glabella

Pl. glabellae (-b l ) The smooth area between the eyebrows just above the nose.

GLACIAL an ice age

Happy about piece of cake I consumed being frozen

Happy to be going round islands at end of June frozen!

Frozen

Glaciate

Brought joy (to)

Gave happiness to

Joyful, delighted and delirious to release hit novel

Prizefighter of sorts.

Spartacus, for one

Gold tiara (anagram)

Sword lilies

Flower named for a small sword.

Flower, a happy one, reviving the soul

Happy oil is flowing to American plant

In a most glad manner

Gladsome

PM happy to meet Sir Mick (wordplay)

Former PM is an old bag!

Disraeli's rival

Glairy

Make to seem attractive (S, not Z)

Beautify a girl with some sprucing up

Beautify spuriously

Make fashionable

Alluring girl, heartless in love

Alluring soul, Morag, getting changed

Heartless girl, passionate and beautiful

Glamour

""Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse. as, a glandered horse.""

GLAND a secreting organ

Type of fever

Of the endocrine system

Sort of fever gradually spreading May 3rd/June 3rd

Glandule

Without much chance of being missed

Glasnost

Glassful

Most lifeless girl's found in drink

Most vitreous

Most expressionless

Stamp collectors' envelopes

Having no panes.

Some kitchen cabinet contents

*Pitchers and tumblers

Table setting in part

Tiffany lampshade, e.g

Tiffany lampshade, for example

Murano artistry

""A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap. Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.""

Glaucoma

Gleamy

GLEAN to gather little by little

Scrapbook items, say

Last of the harvest

One finds these bent in empty grasslands

Cap worn to indicate rank

Highlanders' cap with ribbons

Scottish highlander's cap

Gliadine

Glissade

GLISSADE to perform a gliding dance step

Gliding dance steps

Ballet steps.

What ballet dancers do having broken legs is sad!

Shifting, sliding as slippery semibreves

Excited as sliding along the keys

Slides (music)

Notes for a glider (wordplay)

Player's sliding scale (wordplay)

Sliding series of notes (mus.)

Gloaming

GLOBAL worldwide or comprehensive

Organising big, nothing small (wordplay)

Worldwide geopolitical policy

Doctrine that de-emphasizes regional interests

GLOBALISE GLOBAL worldwide or comprehensive

(Of company) go worldwide; O legal biz (anagram)

""Pl. glochids also glochidia (-k d - ) One of the minute barbed hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as the prickly pear.""

A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator.

Glossina

Gloxinia

Glucagon

GLUCONATE

Flavor-intensifying compound

Oversupply a partner's food additive

Salt, surfeit going over a friend

Chemical in excess supply taken to a pit

Important compound in protein synthesis

Bodybuilding supplement

Most contorted

Gnathion

Gnathite

Gnatty

Detailed how maul got out of control in one part of the pitch

Spots a log at each end of the pitch

Targets that somebody may move

Somebody may move them

Folks such as Heidi's friend Peter

Some farmers run while crossing the road

They look after kids without nannies

Leather wine holders

Goddam

Goddamn

Mafioso as sponsor (wordplay)

Mafia boss (wordplay)

Religious duty for the Mafia

Pet dragon (anagram)

Font selection (wordplay)

Aunt or uncle, sometimes

Golconda

Golgotha

GOLIARD a medieval student who indulged in goliardy

Gonfalon

Gonfanon

Clap for American turn and not South American bird

The burning in the "Seinfeld" episode "The Burning"

Silly, silly people

Silly folks

Doofuses

Duck with orange? Sod off!

Muck on smoother bird

Male bird pecking duck, very large duck

""Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific.""

Cobwebby things

Filmy items

Light as a butterfly wing.

Goulash

Gourami

Dom DeLuise et al.

Lovers of fine fare

Fine food freaks

Grabby

Grabbler

Grabble

Awkward without 18 (wordplay)

W.G. being less than sporting (wordplay)

WG was never this!

State of being gracilent; slenderness.

Gracioso

Greek ace seeing sweetheart changing imperceptibly

Act of arranging in stages

Shift in steps

Scale of successive changes or stages

GRADE to arrange in steps or degrees

Red Giants on road slopes

Banks' permits about to expire

Red giants seen on slopes

Developing slowly and by degrees

Bit by bit

A little at a time - slowly

Graduand

Became a bachelor, maybe

Successfully completed a degree course

Received a degree

Heroes and heroines of June.

They've received degrees

They have received university awards

A dividing engine.

Graecize

Graecize

Graftage

Grainy

Gramary

Gramarye

Turning page, spread goes through sea creatures

Rich wheat regions.

Stores for harvested cereals

Their contents have been threshed

Family member.

Old man, Greek tennis champ, holding supplement

Great Italian PA, first and best of its kind

Old women

Old ladies.

Old women

Mother's mother to intimidate her sister

Mother's mother's sister

Hoarding money abroad, cadaverous elderly relative

GRANDE {grand=adj}

Some patriarchs

Family guys

Golf? Managed two days with terribly sad old men

Granddam

Grandeur

More elaborate than necessary

Impressive in style

Lofty's organised chaos

In broad and noble style

(Of music) to be played imposingly

Grandkid

Stately state

Majesty

Male ancestor

Da's da

Grandsir

William and Harry, to Elizabeth

Jacob and Esau, to Abraham

Enos and Enoch, to Adam

""Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement. as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.""

Female relation given piece of furniture, as may be allowed

English word

GRANTS grant

Process sugar, perhaps

Crystallize, as sugar.

Become crystalline in form

""A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.""

""Pl. granulomas or granulomata (-m -t ) A mass of inflamed granulation tissue, usually associated with ulcerated infections.""

""The main constituent of the starch grain or granule, in distinction from the framework of cellulose. Unlike cellulose, it is colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.""

Adjective meaning resembling

Grapery

Small projectiles fired from cannon

Small cannon balls

Ammunition in ogre's path exploded

Purple creeper (wordplay)

Gossip channel (wordplay)

Unreliable communication method (h)

Writing-system units

Letters from the border about fruit

GRAPHEME a unit of a writing system

Relating to visual art

Vivid chap a girl recollects

(K) Like many charts

Golf clubs made from a diagram (wordplay)

Relating to a form of carbon

What the lead in your pencil actually is

GRAPE to {grope=v}

Grapline

*Wrestlers, at times (letters 3-7)

Wrestling match participants

Mat men

Grapple

Capable of being grasped.

Most lush, as lawns

Savanna or prairie

Past your sound for a graze

Informer has to alight by prairie

Completely worn cricket pitch

Adjective meaning resembling

Fundamental

Indicating political trends emerging spontaneously from the people.

Guidelines on a screen

Planning finally approved - delighted!

Indulged or pleased

Gave pleasure to

Government gives approval and provides satisfaction

Gratinee

Gratinee

GRATING a network of bars covering an opening

Thankfulness and appreciation

Feeling of appreciation

Thankfully one can express this

To salute with declaration of joy; to congratulate.

Gravamen

Damaging parts of accusations

Without a grave; unburied.

Gravel

Gobstopper in a mess, with bits of rock on ground

The serious way to have surfaced the hollow up there

The quality of being grave.

The area beside a grave.

Perhaps three serious feet for 19 across

Wee hours shift

Place for old cars

The state of being gravidated; pregnancy.

Tend to move (toward)

Be drawn (towards)

Move slowly (toward)

Gravity

Graviton

Grayback

Wise old man.

Wise oldster

Old-timer

Grayling

Graymail

""A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together.""

GRAZE to feed on growing grass

Fried in the most oil, say

Most covered with oil

House painter's excellent job (wordplay)

House painter's excellent job?

A cottager going out may wear it

Increased

Terrific T-man (wordplay)

Eminence (that some are born to!)

Big-headed celebrity!

Ne'er G for one dollar (wordplay)

Ne'er G, perhaps, for the buck instates

9 across is never G, perhaps

Greenish-yellow type of plum

Fruit that's good to take on board again

Fruit akin to plum

The mallard.

Anti-takeover maneuver

Antitakeover maneuver

Eg mineral production company could be victim of this