2-Letter Words Starting with G

GORGEOUS beautiful

Gorgonian

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

Gorgonize

Goriness

Wild dogs remain to be pigs

Eat ravenously.

Quartet in song supplied with energy by witches (wordplay)

Gossipry

""Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient.""

'The old order changeth' can never go

Control nag once very wild with no end of energy

Control attempt by sci-fi writer to incorporate a new chapter

""GOVERNESS A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, usually in their homes.""

Ventnor gem (anagram)

Quote (Part III)

Part of GI

In a swanlike way

Like a dancer

In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly.

Trains a dog awkwardly to make steps

Transitional stages.

Degrees to which darts go in a different direction

Policy of achieving a goal in steps

GRADUAL a hymn sung in alternate parts

Graduate

Important June event.

Marks on a chemist's vessel.

This puzzle's theme

Graduator

Graecize

German tennis player qualified first, but can draw

A field where grain is grown.

The quality of being composed of relatively large particles.

Gramercy

An antibiotic produced by the soil bacterium Bacillus brevis and used to treat infections caused by certain gram-positive bacteria.

""Like, Or pertaining to, grass. See Grass, n., 2. Grass, n., 2.""

*One nettled by you and I (wordplay)

Language usage expert

Good girl chasing male, new to scholar

Former parlor piece.

Early record player

Spinner of 78s

Spanish city storing bad fruit

Passion flower in Spanish city is diseased

Passion fruit not well received by Andalusian city

Grandaunt

TV chef Julia, to fans (wordplay)

Magnificent Julia (wordplay)

The issue of offspring

Old man with two pairs (wordplay)

Pop's pop, informally

Pop's pappy

Nephew's daughter

Second Susan B. Anthony, to the first

Princess Anne to the Duke of Windsor.

Grandsire

Fan setting (wordplay)

Platform for $1,000 bills?

Platform for $1,000 bills (wordplay)

A father's or mother's uncle.

Mags erring, perhaps, taking illustrations from other publications

Germans rig arrangement to augment illustrative content

A fine-grained granite porphyry having a groundmass with irregular intergrowths of quartz and feldspar.

Like some sugar

Like sugar could be cultivated in Tuareg land!

A lunar force returned to spread grass with gritty bits

Forms into particles.

Prepares sugar, in a way

Forms into small pellets

""GRANULATE To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal. as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.""

Granulite

""GRANULITE A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.""

Granuloma

Granulose

Granulosie

Source of some breakfast juice

Item pictured on '35 Florida plates

Citric acid source

Fruity rumor mills (wordplay)

Rumor vehicles

Sources for fruit-loving gossips (wordplay)

Graphemic

GRAPHITE a soft variety of carbon

English word

May be used to analyse writer's output

Study of handwriting

Grappling

""One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks. They belong to an extinct group (Graptolithina) supposed to be hydroids. Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks. They belong to an extinct group (Graptolithina) supposed to be hydroids.""

In a greedy manner

The Steppes, for example

The pampas, for example

Safari sights

Ordinary people (basis of lawn?)

Like some campaigns

Local, as political support

With thanks.

Graticule

Pleasing to the mind

Giving pleasure.

Pleasant.

Gratitude

What waiters may wait for

Tips.

Tips

Done without good reason

Provided but not asked for

Done without good reason; free

GRATULATE To salute with declaration of joy; to congratulate.

Gratulate

Gravel

Graveside

Where to read a plot summary (wordplay)

Solemn mood around Sabbath memorial

Memorial service opening in serious mood

Dead spots (wordplay)

Places to whistle past

Cemeteries

Measurer of g

The measurement of specific gravity.

Gravitas

Became attracted (to).

Expecting to go round building in which you'd find many a picture was drawn

Moves (toward)

Colorful elderly males (wordplay)

Elderly ones

Oldsters

Grayfish

Grayness

Graywacke

""A person of Italian descent; -- used as a derogatory ethnic slur, and considered offensive.""

GREASE to smear with grease (a lubricant)

Oily shrub, aka white sage

Oily quality

Struggling actors get to keep ace clothes

React badly with nannies perhaps wrapping heavy clothing

Greaten

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

Gluttony

Avarice

Rookie footballers (wordplay)

Frog and grasshopper (wordplay)

Frog and grasshopper?

Attire for golfers (wordplay)

Intermediate dojo students

Dojo conferrals

Smilax

Places for raising plants.

Her fencing (anagram)

Seed-eating songbird

Large seed-eater

Aphids

Delicious plums.

Sweet plums

Greenhead

""A. A tropical American tree (Ocotea rodioei) having dark, greenish, durable wood.""

Young and inexperienced musicians (wordplay)

Untrained people

Beginners.

Nursery of sorts

Site of a growing business (wordplay)

Horticulturalists' glass building

Greenling

Greenmail

Backstage areas

Greensand

Young lamb bit bird

Large sandpiper with a slightly upturned bill

Altered basaltic rock

Bucks, cabbage, dough, etc.

Party takes volcanic rock to be healthy food

Does an environmentalist gorge on cabbages (wordplay)

Grass covered ground

Grassy turf

Grassed area gardeners prepared round wicket

Greenwing

Greenwood

Gregarine

Outgoing, as Louganis (wordplay)

Kinnear when talkative (wordplay)

Mr. Fancy Pants isn't social, he's...

Originally, they were missile throwers

Guards ringleaders left out to fester

Gardeners I made into infantrymen

West Indies island chain

West Indian islands producing grains need organisation

Grewsome

Short of time, they run about in stadia

We may bet on them to give us hydrogen

Dogs bred for racing

Greyness

Not moving at all

Jammed every which way

Diagram of crossword requiring key when one's stuck

Parts of returns, often

Grounds for complaint

Suggestion-box notes

GRIEVOUS causing grief

Persistently queries limiting space for eating places

Grillwork

Cats, in witchcraft.

Cats

Grimness

Grindery

In a grinding manner.

Place for a beezer (wordplay)

Something to give you an edge (wordplay)

Place for your nose (wordplay)

In a grinning manner.

GRIPPING grip

Grisaille

The quality or state of being grisly; horrid.

Gristly

Gristmill

Pluck

Most bearish (wordplay)

Slightly disreputable bars

State of being groggy.

Heavily ribbed fabrics

Grossular

Bizarre works of art.

Art works of a sort.

Most sullen

""Fish that live on the sea bottom, especially commercially important gadoid fishes like cod and haddock or flatfish like flounder.""

Predictors on Feb. 2

February 2 celebrities

Woodchucks

Grounding

No reason for filtered coffee (wordplay)

Perhaps not so fine without foundation

Without good reason

Shakespeare put him in the pit

Creeping plant

Base for natural crystals

Fine-grained part of igneous rock

Mass of rocky material in irregular mound hidden by greenery

Might monkey with them through the mill (wordplay)

Items of food supplied by sporting venue not at all sensible

Did be grinding them and knock them out up for the monkeys to eat

Sinkers may result in these

Results of some unexciting at-bats

Infield plays

Groundsel

One looking after a sports field

Strands fellow worker in the field

Worker on field has nasty dung on arms

Maintainers of cricket venues

Keepers of sports field

English word

Foundation or preparation

Preparation requiring land and labour

Preliminary effort

Condition of stultifying conformity

Acting obsequiously

Humbling oneself

Servile pair of lackeys starting to open vessel, accessing the ship's drink

Abstract noun (-ness)

In a growling manner.

Growthy

Grimy state

Grimy appearance

GRUBSTAKE

He fits out miners

Finances a prospector.

(Done) with a feeling of resentment

Lugging dry hops with resentment

GRUELING an exhausting experience

Gruelling

Evoking King

See morgues, working at first in a macabre fashion

Put me between your legs, twisted in macabre style

Most bloody, like horror films

Bad humour

Irritability shown by politician that's given entry to deviant US singer

Guacharo

Escort, before sweetheart entered, swore

Supported aunt and agreed changes

Covered against failure

Guarantee

Guaranty

Lenders' requirements in lieu of collateral, at times

People offering absolute security? You could find us arrogant

Place for military prisoners

Picket building where prisoners are kept

*Feature of gated community entrances

Safety barriers on track (wordplay)

Basketball player rants and raves (wordplay)

Protective barriers on the sides of a stairwell

Cells turn to fix as drug dealt externally

Don't let anyone into the kitchen and scullery for security reasons

Guayabera

Guerdon

Freedom fighters, perhaps

Russian fighters behind the lines.

Small raiding bands

Guesswork

Lute-shaped marine creature

Axe wielders

One adept at drawing (wordplay)

Billy the Kid, for one

Top drawer that opens up first (wordplay)

Gunpowder

Armed smugglers

Illegal importing of firearms

Smuggling firearms

Traitorous crime

*Expert at drawing (wordplay)

Armed man turns friendly? Stick around!

Shooting star (wordplay)

Guttering

Pine, maybe, for return from reps on my grievance cases

Gynandry

Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria.Gynandria.

Gynarchy

Gyniatry

Gynophore

GYRATION the act of {gyrating=v}

Gyrfalcon

Gyroplane

Parts of some compasses

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