2-Letter Words Starting with G

Glucuronide

Glutaminase

Glutathione

""A nonbarbiturate sedative and hypnotic drug, C 13 H 15 NO 2 .""

GLYCERINATE

Glycerinate

GLYCOGEN a carbohydrate

""The production or formation of sugar from gycogen, as in the liver.""

English word

Any of a group of conjugated proteins having a carbohydrate as the nonprotein component.

Glycosidase

GLYCOSYLATE

Glycosylate

Gnatcatcher

Goaltending

Stuffed say, in order to eat old tripe

Rhubarb wolfed down? I approve!

Bolted, say, ordinary passable rubbish

High-level argot

Vapid verbiage

Meaningless language

Goddaughter

Godfather

Goldenness

Goniometry

Googolplex

Vegetarian's dessert (wordplay)

Tasty pie filling

Unwelcome visitors for fruit plants

Gooseflesh

Goosegrass

GORGEOUS beautiful

Gormandizer

Tittle-tattler

Good spoonerism made up about leader of group, a tattler

Gourmandise

GOURMANDIZE

Gourmandize

Pertaining to a country's rulers

Relating to ruling system

Type of intervention, frequently in strikes.

Governorate

From Kennon to Long, in Louisiana.

Graceful

GRACEFUL having beauty of form or movement

Indulgent, elegant, courtesy

Gradiometer

Graininess

Granddaddy

Grandfather

English word

Nan's clocks (wordplay)

Women like Moses

Glenway Westcott book (with "The").

Cries of relief after impressive directions from young relatives

Massive yearly payments for old people

Close ancestors

What were Russell and Anna Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" (wordplay)

Show-off (1975-80)

*Showboating type

Show-off

Graniteware

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) a coarse-grained acid igneous rock containing almost twice as much plagioclase as orthoclase: intermediate in composition between granite and diorite [from grano + diorite ]

Granulocyte

Graphology

GRASPING grasp

Certain military aircraft.

Fabled fritterers

Mixed drinks

Grateful

GRATEFUL deeply thankful

Gravimetry

As in pre-stage make-up (wordplay)

Heard Greece decorates to hide face

Greasiness

Magnanimous

""GRECIANIZE To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech.""

Greediness

""GREENBACKER One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.""

""GREENBACK One of the legal tender notes of the United States; first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.""

Seeing French dicky birds

Ecofriendly fellow cautiously moves birds

Produce sellers, in Britain or Australia

GREENGROCER A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.

GREENISH somewhat green

Greenkeeper

GREENMAILER greenmail

Greenmail

Greenockite

He makes sure the rough isn't too rough

One who uses a stimpmeter

Golf course maintenance person

How some people socialize

GRIEVOUS causing grief

""An antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , administered orally for the treatment of ringworm and other fungal infections of the skin, hair, and nails.""

Grisliness

Grittiness

Grogginess

""A pale green, pink, brown, or black garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 , occurring alone or as a constituent of the common garnet.""

Old king with quotes about a lake cuts a bizarre figure

Groundfish

Groundless

Groundmass

Layers beneath kippers of crushed leaves

Groundswell

Groundwater

Groupuscule

Growliness

Grubbiness

Sense morgue's developed (wordplay)

Grumpiness

""A drug, C 10 H 22 N 4 , used in the form of its sulfate salt in the treatment of hypertension.""

Putting up as security collateral ahead of one bad result

""GUESSTIMATE an estimate based on little information, being little better than a guess.""

Less-than-certain totals

Figures in the ballpark

Ballpark figures

GUILEFUL deceitful

Guiltiness

Guitarfish

Young vagabonds

Pl. gynecocracies or gynocracies Government by women.

Gynecology

""The branch of medicine dealing with health care for women, especially the diagnosis and treatment of disorders affecting the female reproductive organs.""

Abnormal enlargement of the breasts in a male.

""Of, relating to, or resulting from the magnetic properties of a spinning, electrically charged particle.""

Gainfulness

Galactorrhea

An amino derivative of galactose commonly found in glycolipids.

Galactosemia

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a galactoside.

Gallimaufry

Gallowglass

Galvanometer

Relating to measuring small currents

Galvanoscope

Gamesmanship

Plural or third person singular

The formation or production of gametes.

Containing garnets.

Loquacity

Gaseousness

Gastrectomy

The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg.

Gastroscopy

Gawkishness

A jump in skiing made from a crouching position with the use of both poles.

Gemeinschaft

Kindness; comfort (German)

Coziness, as of a German resort

Title of Allied leader

Commander in chief

Chief commander: Ital.

""Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule.""

Genericness

See Urogenital. Urogenital.

Genotypical

Genteelness

Epithet for good guy in Jane Austen

Epithet for Austen hero taking me and Ellen out

Gentleperson

""GENUFLECTION The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship.""

Genuineness

Geochemical

Time ()

Adjective (-ic)

Geomagnetism

How the sequence 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32,... grows

Some math specialists

Study of landforms

Geophysical

Geophysicist

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the relationship among politics and geography, demography, and economics, especially with respect to the foreign policy of a nation.""

Geoscientist

""Of, relating to, or being a satellite that travels above Earth's equator from west to east at an altitude of approximately 35,900 kilometers (22,300 miles) and at a speed matching that of Earth's rotation, thus remaining stationary in relation to Earth.""

Geostrategy

Pl. geostrategies The branch of geopolitics that deals with strategy.

""GEOTROPIC Relating to, or showing, geotropism.""

Sit in carriage, being moved to see doctors

The act of Germanizing.

Abstract noun (-ity)

GERONTOCRAT

Gerontology

He specialises in study of ageing

Divided unfairly, as voting areas.

Did some questionable redistricting

Redesigned electoral districts

Gesellschaft

Signalling with the arms

Form of autotelic sign (wordplay)

Hand signal (wordplay)

Hand signalling

""GESTICULATE To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.""

Gesticulator

Relating to emphatic hand or arm movements

Ghastliness

GHETTOIZE to form into a ghetto; to isolate (people) as though into a ghetto.

Ghostliness

Gimcrackery

Gingerbread

Girlishness

Glamorous

Glaringness

Glasspaper

Gleefulness

Glockenspiel

A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast.

English word

Glutethimide

GLYCERINATE

Glycopeptide

Glycoprotein

Gobbledegook

Gobbledygook

Godlessness

Godlikeness

Gonadectomy

Gossipmonger

English word

Governorship

Graceless

Gracileness

Gradualness

Your dad's kids, to dad's dad

Junior members of family

Offspring of one's offspring

Your dad's girl to your dad's dad

Bridget, to Henry

Young relative seeing old king and the changing of the guard

Exempted, in a sense

By way of liking Dad's dad (wordplay)

Like many stump speeches

Pompous in speech

'Inflated, in a manner of speaking (13)'

Grandiose

Grandiosity

Like a grandmother in age or manner; kind; indulgent.