2-Letter Words Starting with G

Mendelian (var.)

Hereditary

Nil gaiety is very different from this

Ignite and lay about for warmth

Smiling attitude

GENIC pertaining to {genes=n}

""The sex organs, especially the external sex organs, called the external genitalia; the genitals.external genitalia; the genitals.""

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

""Possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb. as, a genitival adverb.""

Some prepositional phrases

Geniture

Terribly eager to finish race (wordplay)

CO leading battles being very murderous

Genocide

GENOTYPE the genetic constitution of an organism

Riffraff's opposite

State of being well-bred.

Culture for breeding

Gentrice

From the heart

For real

Really

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

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.

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

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.

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

Old Spice Girl with three hits, say

Singularly old medical care (wordplay)

Good criteria for treatment of the old

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

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.""

Gestate

Joking, perhaps, in the womb

Development (in womb)

Carrying a child back, say, to terminal

Charades activity

Gesticulating, motioning

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

Getter

Sinter, deposit from hot springs

More horrible

More dreadful

Gherao

Ghetto

Restrict to a section of town

Ghosty

Ghosting

Ghostly

Deathly Greek innkeeper gets wish

Spectral

Giantism

Towering

Prattling

Like rabbit perhaps and rhubarb

Xjclmzit obwny, for example

Flipping big herb is cooked for cobblers

Gibbet

Gibbet

""GIBBOSE irregularly rounded, also GIBBOUS""

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

Growing problem (wordplay)

Power grid measurement

Giggly

Gildhall

Gilthead

Gimbal

Gimbal

Gewgaws

Gimlet

Gimmick

Unnecessary stunts

Trickery

Gingeley

Gingely

Gingelli

Ginger

Gingilli

GIRAFFE a long-necked mammal

Reloading exploding fireworks

Do realign mispositioned chandelier

Wall ornament aligned or skew-whiff

Girasole

Girlhood

In the way a lass would

How some giggle

Sometime lucrative TV shows

Giveback

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

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

Glairy

Make to seem attractive (S, not Z)

Beautify a girl with some sprucing up

Beautify spuriously

Make fashionable

Without much chance of being missed

Most lifeless girl's found in drink

Most vitreous

Most expressionless

Stamp collectors' envelopes

Gleamy

Scrapbook items, say

Last of the harvest

One finds these bent in empty grasslands

Gleety

Gliadine

Acted like a star

Grand lake covered in mild rippling twinkled

Gleamed

Glimpser

Glimpse

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"

Glitzy

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)

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.""

Globulin

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

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

Glooming

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

Most shiny, sleek

Most like magazine covers

Most lustrous

Glossina

Inflammation of the tongue.

Glottis

Larynx apparatuses

Guide leader going down looking daggers

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

Frowning.

Glowfly

With ardor

Criminal lying low after midnight, with warmth

Gloxinia

Glucinum

""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

Glunch

Chemical in excess supply taken to a pit

Important compound in protein synthesis

Bodybuilding supplement

Glutelin

Tacky excess needs one with savvy

Sticky.

Sticky

Ester found in vegetable oils and animal fats

Sweet liquid taken round by Reg nicely

Syrupy chemical liquid

Viscous material used in antifreeze

Glycerin

Glyconic

""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

Gnathion

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

Leather wine holders

Soap, water - what next (wordplay)

Rows in the gallery? Goodness!

Doing less ruined being religious

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.

Slacker at Fort Knox (wordplay)

... for a loafer (wordplay)

Loaf on the job

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.

GOLIARD a medieval student who indulged in goliardy

A doll fashioned in grotesque caricature of a Black male.

Golliwog

Venetian in a striped shirt, perhaps

Driver in pole position (wordplay)

Boatman from old region (wordplay)

""Pl. gonococci (-k k s , -k k ) The bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the causative agent of gonorrhea.""

Goodly

Goodwill

Foreseeable career path for little women

Suitable partners for little men (wordplay)

French novelist keeps time for? Venetian composer

Utterly silly behaviour

Silly behavior

Wacky quality of sentimentality combined with shortage of subtlety

Large-mouthed marine denizen

Gorgerin

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

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

They "dish the dirt"

They dish out scoops

Rumor spreaders

Dishing the dirt

Exchanging rumors

Kaffeeklatsch activity

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

To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.

Gourami

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

Exercising authority over

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

Grabby

Grabble

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

Red Giants on road slopes

Banks' permits about to expire

Red giants seen on slopes

Graecize

Graecize

Grainy

Gramary

Rich wheat regions.

Stores for harvested cereals

Their contents have been threshed