2-Letter Words Starting with G

In a selfish way

In a grasping way

In an avaricious way

Launchers launch them

G.I. Joe's pineapples

Glass containers for fire-fighting.

Pigskin pros

NFL players

Football players

Griddle

Flat cooking surfaces

Good puzzles for cooks

Flat, heavy pans

Cowboy's locale (wordplay)

Rushing home (wordplay)

Back home (wordplay)

Extreme traffic congestion (4,4)

Severe traffic jam

Traffic jam at intersections

Broiled-meat order

Large lid obscuring traditional Cajun stew

Made a face

Put on an unhappy face

Made contorted face over decigram

Cliff Thorburn-style snooker players

Subs, by another name

They make ground

Places where tools are ground

Wearing down or sharpening up

Molar's mode

Very burdensome

Streaked with gray

Tailless bear going before Edward made whimpering sounds

Complained

Good, perhaps, but not in the air

Prevented from flying

Not allowed out

Infielder's concern

Batter's infield bouncer

Topped ball on a diamond

A type of mathematical set

Kowtowed

Grudger

Harbouring grudges

Gruel

Complained after German found out

Complained in a bad-tempered way

Complained or murmured discontentedly

* Satisfied and happy (wordplay)

Positively happy (wordplay)

10 content of beastly noise went first

Grutch

A chemical compound

This paper's ignoring another? Front of Times showing full face

Guarder

We are superior!

Kind of angel

Watchman placed air-gun ad

Watching over or protecting

Keep watch and protecting

Watching over to protect

Sound egg curdled fish

Rewards

Hooted 'Humbug!' to one being married

Didn't just chuckle

Gave coarse noisy laugh

Docile boffin drawn into deceit

Like some missiles

Competency

Gee, you and I are together at the ball!

Lead for this

What some counselors provide

A track for controlling the line of motion of something

Directors seizing Luxembourg's old money

Units of money in Netherlands

Euros replaced them in the Netherlands

Guisard

A brown algae

Dots, for example

Goody Goody candy

Dome-shaped candies

Tried to move about unnoticed, as a shamus

Plants known as "sticky-heads"

Plants known as 'sticky-heads'

Gumwood

Gurnard

Made roomier, as a sleeve

Guttate

Threatened to go out, a candle say

Like most modern homes

Ran down in channels, like candle wax

Gweduck

The condition of having both male and female sexual organs

Resembling a {woman=n}

Romany realm

Sprial in arrangement

Bargained for strong fabric

Badger in a woolly coat

Nag a bride dancing in a raincoat

Mac; began ride (anagram)

Be inside, reading new material

Crudely darn beige twill

People "on the go."

Movers, not shakers

Pleasure-seeking travelers

Ron Popeil, for example

One with the latest gizmos

One who loves clever ingenious devices

Gadroon

Gallant

Most of the pay merrily taken from Daily Telegraph wasted, as mine is

A lad's misbehaving with girl in dances

Awfully large lad is losing energy in dances

Lively dance.

Lively dance

Galopade

Galloped in triumph Lewis Carroll

Galloped in triumph: Lewis Carroll.

Bounded clumsily

Gambado

Ran about playfully

Played and laid a bet, by the sound of it

""A Greek ornamental design, also GAMMATION""

Gamodeme

Strolling Dial.

Strolling: Dial.

Gangland

Gangrene

Gantlet

Deny a gem's being reset for the waiting youth

Gapeseed

Garboard

Green-thumb men.

Contrary Mary and others

Contrary Mary et al.

GARDEN to cultivate a plot of land

Flowers for Billie Holiday

Fragrant white flowers

Flowering evergreen shrubs

Looking after a domestic plot

Deranging with green-fingered work

Backyard putterer's skill

Archaic a. A chamber for storing clothes; a wardrobe.

""GARGOYLE an ornamental figure, also GURGOYLE""

Italian patriot takes the biscuit!

'Squashed fly' biscuit (wordplay)

19th-century hero of Italian unification

Fish caught in bays (around head)

Decked with leis

Wreathed with flowers

Garlic

Garment

Added herbs from his garden

Dressed for dinner

Dressed overall, wearing ensign, about to cast off

Got rid of fish that's decayed

Killed by flipping piece of cloth (decomposed)!

Bluster from de Bergerac

Literary word for boasting talk

Extravagant boasting

Heard logs (anagram) - fuel store

Tank, relatively ancient - support for cut (wordplay)

Maybe winkle good parts out

Snail, for one

Slug, for example

Software developer with pen to fill in oversize pages

Gaudery

Extravagant tasteless showiness

Tasteless showiness

Architect's put on cape to give showy display

Gauffer

""A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent.""

A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent.

Geepound

Became doubled or paired

Nice police officers? Not civil!

French military police

Foreign cops seem grand, if disorganised

Gender

Made like Parmesan, about three points

Made teenager excited with taste of 19A

That's currently produced

Terribly eager to finish race (wordplay)

CO leading battles being very murderous

Genocide

Geodesic

Geodesy

Surveyor to stop going east of creek

Surveyor finally finding excuse to stop

I got seeds for scientific student of earth's shape and size

Pertaining or belonging to the Geometrid\'91. Geometrid\'91.

Gerardia

Plant of the mint family

A blooming Teutonic ruddy turn-up

Herb, continental turned a bright colour

Substance destroying harmful microorganisms

Disinfectant

Disinfectant.

Verbal adjective in Latin

Latin verbal adjective given rude translation

Verbal adjective in 'poor undeserving pair of Poles dismissed'

""Any of numerous, mostly tropical herbs or shrubs of the family Gesneriaceae, including African violets, the Cape primrose, and gloxinia.""

Gibbet

State of excitable frivolity

Vertigo as a result of nasty snide digs

Excitability and frivolity

Gildhall

Gilthead

Gimbal

Gimmick

Reloading exploding fireworks

Do realign mispositioned chandelier

Wall ornament aligned or skew-whiff

Girlhood

Happy about piece of cake I consumed being frozen

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

Frozen

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

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

Gliadine

Acted like a star

Grand lake covered in mild rippling twinkled

Gleamed

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.)

Gee, lent an ear to it and it shone!

Gee, one heard what one saw what was shining!

Shown lustrously

Sparkled.

Shone at golf - then made a mess!

Showered with sparkling sprinkles

Shined like an outfit in "A Chorus Line"

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

Appearing more special than is the case

Praised and worshipped

Worshipped; extolled

Glottis

""One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates. glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.""

Ester found in vegetable oils and animal fats

""Any of a group of organic compounds, occurring abundantly in plants, that yield a sugar and one or more nonsugar substances on hydrolysis.""

""Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss.""

Folks such as Heidi's friend Peter

Some farmers run while crossing the road

They look after kids without nannies

Goddam

Goddamn

No way, no how!

Venus et al.

Athena and Aphrodite

Mafioso as sponsor (wordplay)

Mafia boss (wordplay)

Religious duty for the Mafia

Soap, water - what next (wordplay)

Rows in the gallery? Goodness!

Doing less ruined being religious

Character in "Cinderella."

Member of the christening.

She carries a wand in "Cinderella"

Pet dragon (anagram)

Font selection (wordplay)

Aunt or uncle, sometimes

Golconda

Slacker at Fort Knox (wordplay)

... for a loafer (wordplay)

Loaf on the job

Golden

Film unlucky one in Duck Soup (wordplay)

Supply dongle to look at duck

Look after yellow bird

Auric wand in the garden (wordplay)

King Midas's gun (wordplay)

Cane for Midas (wordplay)

Source of metal or pitch

Place to pick up valuable nuggets

Getting on a bit in German locality of battle where valuable metal can be found

Tiny European bird

Small bird with yellow and black wings

Bird folding flailing wings in crash

Cellini, for one

Classic author or forger (wordplay)

Cellini, for example.

Ground where Brighton once glittered (wordplay)

Ground where Brighton glittered (wordplay)

Aventurine

GOLIARD a medieval student who indulged in goliardy

Venetian in a striped shirt, perhaps

Driver in pole position (wordplay)

Boatman from old region (wordplay)

Goodly

Goodwill

Foreseeable career path for little women

Suitable partners for little men (wordplay)

French novelist keeps time for? Venetian composer

Duck with orange? Sod off!

Muck on smoother bird

Male bird pecking duck, very large duck

... spread story: icon covering head in shocking Pepsi outburst

Dom DeLuise et al.

Lovers of fine fare

Fine food freaks

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

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.""

Savanna or prairie

Past your sound for a graze

Informer has to alight by prairie

Planning finally approved - delighted!

Indulged or pleased

Gave pleasure to