2-Letter Words Starting with G

Politely and not roughly swallowing fish

In a polite way

In a socially refined way

Riffraff's opposite

State of being well-bred.

Culture for breeding

Word before, "Start you engines"

Polite, kind or upper-class fellow

(Upper-class) fellow

Well-bred softies (wordplay)

Third word of many speeches

Males with good manners

Gentrice

Express reverence, perhaps

Bend the knee as sign of reverence

Go down on one knee in homage

From the heart

For real

Really

See phytogeography .

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

Scientific study of earth's surface

Place settings, collectively

You know where you are with this subject

Geologer

Geology

Fault finder (wordplay)

Stones fan (wordplay)

One studying rocks

To study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist.

Diviner, of sorts

Diviner love cherished by men dancing with grace

One skilled in the art of placing buildings, etc, auspiciously

George starts to get a man with a jerk in a divine way

They know all the angles

Certain mathematicians

Euclid, Pythagoras, and Maryam Mirzakhani

Kind of mean (wordplay)

Making tiger come out of a pyramid, say

Of lines, points and surfaces

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

Geophone

Geophyte

Geoprobe

Material from novelist Heyer (wordplay)

Little prince's stuff (wordplay)

TV pal of Mary and Rhoda

Movement of a motile organism using the earth's gravity for orientation.

Like some plants to go with price reduced

Price to go travelling up and down with the growth of the plants

Geranial

Geraniol

Measuring unusual flowers

Measuring exotic flowers

Popular plants

Gerardia

Gerbille

Arctic bird of prey

Old Spice Girl with three hits, say

Singularly old medical care (wordplay)

Good criteria for treatment of the old

Plant of the mint family

A blooming Teutonic ruddy turn-up

Herb, continental turned a bright colour

In a relevant manner

Continental city generating in a suitable manner

Element seen by many in bloom

Metalloid element, atomic number 32

Element number 32 (named for a European country)

Adopt Teutonic customs

Substance destroying harmful microorganisms

Disinfectant

Disinfectant.

Start to grow - a regiment (anagram)

'Marine! Get moving, bud!'

(Of seed) shoot

Like much of Howard Hughes' home, later on

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.""

Late gent's (anagram) - shapes, patterns, organised units

Gestate

Joking, perhaps, in the womb

Development (in womb)

Carrying a child back, say, to terminal

Pantomimists.

Charades activity

Gesticulating, motioning

By the sound of it, you phone your joke with your hands

If furniture is to be had, buy it

Buy some furniture if it can be obtained

Find somewhere to sit within reach

Getter

Sinter, deposit from hot springs

More horrible

More dreadful

Gherao

Ghetto

Restrict to a section of town

Ghosty

Ghostly

Deathly Greek innkeeper gets wish

Spectral

Towering

Prattling

Like rabbit perhaps and rhubarb

Xjclmzit obwny, for example

Flipping big herb is cooked for cobblers

Gibbet

Gibbet

Gibbsite

State of excitable frivolity

Vertigo as a result of nasty snide digs

Excitability and frivolity

Giftware

PC storage units

Smartphone storage measure

Storage units

One billion cycles per second

Giggly

Gilthead

Gimbal

Gimlet

Gimmick

Gingeley

Gingely

Gingelli

Ginger

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.

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

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

Glamour

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

GLAND a secreting organ

Glandule

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

Gleamy

GLEAN to gather little by little

Scrapbook items, say

Last of the harvest

One finds these bent in empty grasslands

Flee into the gully? With pleasure

Joyously

Gleety

Cap worn to indicate rank

Highlanders' cap with ribbons

Scottish highlander's cap

Gliadine

Acted like a star

Grand lake covered in mild rippling twinkled

Gleamed

Glimpser

Glissade

GLISSADE to perform a gliding dance step

Gliding dance steps

Ballet steps.

What ballet dancers do having broken legs is sad!

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"

Glitzy

GLOBAL worldwide or comprehensive

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

Globby

""A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon. Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.""

""A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.""

Pl. glomeruli (-l ) Anatomy A small cluster or mass of blood vessels or nerve fibers.

Most dispirited

Miles to go - terrible - most depressing!

Most depressing

Appearing more special than is the case

Praised and worshipped

Worshipped; extolled

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make glorious""

Sings the praises of

Makes much of

What thirsty flowers do

Gloriole

Glosseme

Most shiny, sleek

Most like magazine covers

Most lustrous

Glottis

Larynx apparatuses

Guide leader going down looking daggers

Gee! 10 across is far from pleased, by the look of it

Frowning.

Glowfly

GLUCONATE

""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.""

Glumpy

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

Glutelin

GLUTEN a tough elastic plant protein substance

Ester found in vegetable oils and animal fats

Sweet liquid taken round by Reg nicely

Syrupy chemical liquid

Viscous material used in antifreeze

Glycerin

Glycerol

Glyceryl

Glycogen

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

Most contorted

Gnathite

Gnatty

""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.""

Having the structure of gneiss.

Adjective meaning resembling

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

Goethite

Gee, what a tender thing to be doing with pleats!

Goggly

Any substance (like thiouracil or thiourea) that induces the formation of a goiter.

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

Ground where Brighton once glittered (wordplay)

Ground where Brighton glittered (wordplay)

Aventurine

Venetian in a striped shirt, perhaps

Driver in pole position (wordplay)

Boatman from old region (wordplay)

Gonocyte

""A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome. Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome.""

Gonopore

Clap for American turn and not South American bird

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

Goodly

Foreseeable career path for little women

Suitable partners for little men (wordplay)

French novelist keeps time for? Venetian composer

GOOEY sticky or viscid

Utterly silly behaviour

Silly behavior

Wacky quality of sentimentality combined with shortage of subtlety

Duck with orange? Sod off!

Muck on smoother bird

Male bird pecking duck, very large duck

Large-mouthed marine denizen

Shrub of beet family

Plant of the beet family

Part of a lamp, perhaps

Part of a desk lamp

Flexible type of desk lamp

Gorgerin

To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify.

Gospeler

Begone, witch, and spread the word!

Evangelist shot wizard (wordplay)

Preacher or evangelist

Cobwebby things

Filmy items

Light as a butterfly wing.

They "dish the dirt"

They dish out scoops

Rumor spreaders

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

To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.

Goulash

Gourami

Jane Eyre's calling.

She'll serve as a teacher with song

Teacher ruined song and verse

As a rule that's what you'd be doing

Exercising authority over

As a rule, going around the Northern Rev. up here

Leaders taking over Norse part

Ron's grove has them as a rule

Dukakis and Sununu

Grabby

Grabbler

Awkward without 18 (wordplay)

W.G. being less than sporting (wordplay)

WG was never this!