2-Letter Words Starting with G

Designating an order of birds

Silversides of California waters.

Gryphon

A tropical bird

A chemical compound

""A medicinal resin, also GUAIACUM, GUAIAC""

Soft-pelted South Americans

Animals allied to the llamas.

Llama look-alikes

Sound egg curdled fish

Rewards

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Gumboil

They're also called wellingtons

Also called Wellingtons

A sticky clay

Dots, for example

Goody Goody candy

Dome-shaped candies

Gummosis

A disease of plants

Ability to stick to point, perhaps

Stick to point, rambling wit!

Initiative, common sense

Tried to move about unnoticed, as a shamus

Investigators find moss - huge variety

Case workers

Private detectives

Gumwood

Naval blockade enforcers

PT 109 and the like

Blockade enforcers

To make a series of short boat trips

Gunlock

End of a rifle (wordplay)

The . in .357 Magnum (wordplay)

Muzzle of a firearm

Warship sections

Gunshot

Part of a hand weapon

Shooter in part or in quantity (wordplay)

Resembling a {woman=n}

Gynoecium

Containing gypsum

Romany realm

Hip dance move (wordplay)

Tory gain (anagram)

Twist that surprisingly brings Tory gain

Figure skaters, at times

Rotators.

Whirlpool's motion.

A roundabout way to make one conservative at last

Turning and spinning around from one giddy extreme to the other

Sprial in arrangement

Pilot's stabilizing device

Ship's stabilizer

People "on the go."

Movers, not shakers

Pleasure-seeking travelers

Gadroon

Glucose obtained from milk-sugar

Sweet thing, a Scot unfortunately beset by wind

Sugar that sounds like it'd be good source of energy during interstellar travel

Gallipot

An amount measured in gallons.

Lively dance.

Lively dance

Horseback riders, at times

Steeds at Belmont

Bitterness showing by those with aspiration heading off, quick movers

How Lone Ranger rides off

Running fast

Double-quick

Wooden structures used for hanging criminals

Small hard secretion formed in the body

Problem for bile ducts

Bile-duct blocker

Galopade

Gambado

Gambeson

Bet you could sound like this for play

Ran about playfully

Played and laid a bet, by the sound of it

High Sierra actress

South Carolina athletes

SC athletes

""A Greek ornamental design, also GAMMATION""

Gammoner

Gammon

Gamodeme

Masses of nerve tissue

Nerve centres of a group with pride (wordplay)

Nervous pride

Gangplow

English word

Gantlope

Gapeworm

Gaposis

Peas - unknown quantity devoured by boy, a game backfiring!

Chickpeas

Garboard

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

""GARGOYLE an ornamental figure, also GURGOYLE""

Mouth-watering church decorations

They could get real soggy after a storm

Grotesque carvings

Garotter

Garotte

Posts for privates

Troops in "Barrack-Room Ballads."

Military posts.

Garroter

Garrote

Got rid of fish that's decayed

Killed by flipping piece of cloth (decomposed)!

Chokes with the arm

Moving targets or instruments of death

Voluble - oral gurus (anagram)

Revealing a lot of gas (wordplay)

Loquacious and voluble

Bluster from de Bergerac

Literary word for boasting talk

Extravagant boasting

Heard logs (anagram) - fuel store

Tank, relatively ancient - support for cut (wordplay)

Gashouse

Gasogene

Gasolene

Gasolier

Refined fill-ups

They're refined

Motor fuels.

""GASOLINE a liquid fuel, also GASOLENE""

Some great construction (wordplay)

One that has a view of the Oval!

Fuel storage tank

Maybe winkle good parts out

Snail, for one

Slug, for example

Software developer with pen to fill in oversize pages

Way-out accommodation (wordplay)

What an entrancing lodge!

Good heat circulating by river lodge

They share secrets with us as Bill hides the mail

So Honey, entering all-male party butt-first, stands for swingers (wordplay)

Confidences between you and me and this bound to hold door shut

Gavelock

Gavotte

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

Gazogene

Gazpacho

Standard equipment (wordplay)

Suitcases put in cars

They help motorists keep engagements

Geepound

Gelation

""The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding. Budding.""

Gems ()

King's ransom, perhaps

Emeralds and rubies, say

Minerals for jewelers

Study of trees (wordplay)

Autry's lineage (wordplay)

Family-tree study

Machine that produces electricity

Dynamo, in the U.S.

Existing in name only

Terribly eager to finish race (wordplay)

CO leading battles being very murderous

Genocide

Genotype

GENOTYPE the genetic constitution of an organism

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

Geraniol

Arctic bird of prey

Like much of Howard Hughes' home, later on

Joking, perhaps, in the womb

Development (in womb)

Carrying a child back, say, to terminal

Gherao

Ghetto

Restrict to a section of town

Ghosty

Ghosting

Ghostly

Deathly Greek innkeeper gets wish

Spectral

""GIBBOSE irregularly rounded, also GIBBOUS""

Reloading exploding fireworks

Do realign mispositioned chandelier

Wall ornament aligned or skew-whiff

Girasole

Girlhood

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

Gladsome

PM happy to meet Sir Mick (wordplay)

Former PM is an old bag!

Disraeli's rival

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

Glasnost

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

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)

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.""

""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

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

A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator.

Glosseme

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

Beetles that shine

Luminescent larvae

Luminous larvae

Gloxinia

Glucagon

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.""

GLUTEN a tough elastic plant protein substance

Tacky excess needs one with savvy

Sticky.

Sticky

Glycerol

Glycogen

Glyconic

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

Glycosyl

Gnathion

""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

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