GAIL
First name GAIL's origin is English. GAIL means "lively. joyful. abbreviation of abigail. gael is a term for descendants of the ancient celts in scotland: ireland and the isle of man". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with GAIL below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of gail.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with GAIL and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming GAIL
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES GAŻL AS A WHOLE:
abigail abagail avagail avigail gaila gaileNAMES RHYMING WITH GAŻL (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ail) - Names That Ends with ail:
fudail isma'il isra'il mika'il suhail wa'il gouvernail cinnfhail mikhail abichail dearbhail marcail ail coireail gouveniail maichail neakail vail isobail iseabailRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (il) - Names That Ends with il:
goneril aimil daffodil mikil asil nabil siraj-al-leil tawil abdul-jalil jalil jamil kahil kalil kamil khalil wakil hueil bohumil bodil micheil akil keril emil abril amil april averil avichayil avril cibil lil rahil soleil sybil akhil ancil aveneil basil bidziil birdhil bssil cyril danil darneil denzil gil kahleil kahlil kermichil merril neil nikhil orvil phil raymil renneil virgil yigil leil fil caramichil stil brasil tentagil romil ril bathil mathil adil fadil jibril yagil zemil xipilNAMES RHYMING WITH GAŻL (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (gai) - Names That Begins with gai:
gaia gaige gair gaira gairbhith gairbith gais gaizkaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ga) - Names That Begins with ga:
gaagii gaarwine gabal gabbar gabe gabhan gabi gabino gabirel gabor gabra gabreilla gabrian gabriel gabriela gabriele gabriell gabriella gabrielle gabrielo gabrio gabryella gaby gace gad gadara gadarine gaderian gadhra gadi gadiel gadwa gae gaea gael gaelbhan gaelle gaelyn gaetan gaetana gaetane gaffney gage gahariet gaheris gahiji gahmuret gaho gal gala galahad galahalt galahault galal galan galantyne galatea galatee galatyn galawya galchobhar gale galea galeel galen galena galenia galenka galeno galeron galeun gali galia galiana galice galiena galiene galila galilah galilahi galileo galina galinthias galit gall galla gallagher gallehant gallia galloway galm galochkaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GAŻL:
First Names which starts with 'g' and ends with 'l':
gamal gamaliel gameel garnell gavriel geol gerrell ghazal gilal gill giorsal gokul gol gorvenal grendel gretal gretel grizel guljul gunnel gustel gwawl gweflEnglish Words Rhyming GAIL
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES GAŻL AS A WHOLE:
abigail | noun (n.) A lady's waiting-maid. |
gailer | noun (n.) A jailer. |
gaillard | adjective (a.) Gay; brisk; merry; galliard. |
gailliarde | noun (n.) A lively French and Italian dance. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GAŻL (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ail) - English Words That Ends with ail:
agnail | noun (n.) A corn on the toe or foot. |
noun (n.) An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail. |
ail | noun (n.) Indisposition or morbid affection. |
verb (v. t.) To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man? I know not what ails him. | |
verb (v. i.) To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble. |
aswail | noun (n.) The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus) of India. |
avail | noun (n.) Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail. |
noun (n.) Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction. | |
verb (v. t.) To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. | |
verb (v. t.) To promote; to assist. | |
verb (v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) See Avale, v. |
aventail | noun (n.) The movable front to a helmet; the ventail. |
bail | noun (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. |
noun (n.) Custody; keeping. | |
noun (n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court. | |
noun (n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one. | |
noun (n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable. | |
noun (n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc. | |
noun (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense. | |
noun (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court. | |
noun (n.) A certain limit within a forest. | |
noun (n.) A division for the stalls of an open stable. | |
noun (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket. | |
verb (v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat. | |
verb (v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat. | |
verb (v./t.) To deliver; to release. | |
verb (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed. | |
verb (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. |
blackmail | noun (n.) A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. |
noun (n.) Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure. | |
noun (n.) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver. | |
verb (v. t.) To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud. |
blacktail | noun (n.) A fish; the ruff or pope. |
noun (n.) The black-tailed deer (Cervus / Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer. |
bobtail | noun (n.) An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail. |
adjective (a.) Bobtailed. |
brail | noun (n.) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. |
noun (n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling. | |
noun (n.) A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. | |
verb (v. t.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail. |
brantail | noun (n.) The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail. |
breastrail | noun (n.) The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc. |
bristletail | noun (n.) An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura. |
camail | noun (n.) A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece. |
noun (n.) A hood of other material than mail; | |
noun (n.) a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like. |
cocktail | noun (n.) A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. |
noun (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. | |
noun (n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. | |
noun (n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail. |
cottontail | noun (n.) The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail. |
countervail | noun (n.) Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital. |
verb (v. t.) To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. |
crail | noun (n.) A creel or osier basket. |
culvertail | noun (n.) Dovetail. |
curtail | noun (n.) The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc. |
verb (v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce. |
detail | noun (n.) A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction. |
noun (n.) A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars. | |
noun (n.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected. | |
noun (n.) To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order. | |
noun (n.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron. | |
noun (n.) A minor part, as, in a building, the cornice, caps of the buttresses, capitals of the columns, etc., or (called larger details) a porch, a gable with its windows, a pavilion, or an attached tower. | |
noun (n.) A detail drawing. |
doornail | noun (n.) The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail." |
dovetail | noun (n.) A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. |
verb (v. t.) To cut to a dovetail. | |
verb (v. t.) To join by means of dovetails. | |
verb (v. t.) To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly. |
entail | noun (n.) That which is entailed. |
noun (n.) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. | |
noun (n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed. | |
noun (n.) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. | |
noun (n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage. | |
noun (n.) To appoint hereditary possessor. | |
noun (n.) To cut or carve in a ornamental way. |
entrail | noun (n.) Entanglement; fold. |
verb (v. t.) To interweave; to intertwine. |
fantail | noun (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail. |
noun (n.) Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers. |
firetail | noun (n.) The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt. |
flail | noun (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. |
noun (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded. |
foresail | noun (n.) The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast. |
noun (n.) The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner. | |
noun (n.) The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast. |
forktail | noun (n.) One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking. |
noun (n.) A salmon in its fourth year's growth. |
foxtail | noun (n.) The tail or brush of a fox. |
noun (n.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria. | |
noun (n.) The last cinders obtained in the fining process. |
frail | noun (n.) A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. |
noun (n.) The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. | |
noun (n.) A rush for weaving baskets. | |
(superl) Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm. | |
(superl) Tender. | |
(superl) Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women. |
gilttail | noun (n.) A yellow-tailed worm or larva. |
governail | noun (n.) Management; mastery. |
grail | noun (n.) A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. |
noun (n.) A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail. | |
noun (n.) Small particles of earth; gravel. | |
noun (n.) One of the small feathers of a hawk. |
hail | noun (n.) Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones. |
noun (n.) A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call. | |
adjective (a.) Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling). | |
verb (v. i.) To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors. | |
verb (v. t.) To pour forcibly down, as hail. | |
verb (v. t.) To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address. | |
verb (v. t.) To name; to designate; to call. | |
verb (v. i.) To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York. | |
verb (v. i.) To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from. | |
verb (v. t.) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting. |
hairtail | noun (n.) Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; esp., T. lepterus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish. |
hangnail | noun (n.) A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. |
hardtail | noun (n.) See Jurel. |
headsail | noun (n.) Any sail set forward of the foremast. |
hobnail | noun (n.) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes. |
noun (n.) A clownish person; a rustic. | |
verb (v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. |
horntail | noun (n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females. |
horsenail | noun (n.) A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail. |
horsetail | noun (n.) A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum. |
noun (n.) A Turkish standard, denoting rank. |
jail | noun (n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. |
verb (v. t.) To imprison. |
jeofail | noun (n.) An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight. |
kail | noun (n.) A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1. |
noun (n.) Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables. | |
noun (n.) A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner. |
longtail | noun (n.) An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog. |
lugsail | noun (n.) A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. |
lymail | noun (n.) See Limaille. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GAŻL (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (gai) - Words That Begins with gai:
gaidic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to hypogeic acid; -- applied to an acid obtained from hypogeic acid. |
gaiety | noun (n.) Same as Gayety. |
gain | noun (n.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam. |
noun (n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living. | |
noun (n.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize. | |
noun (n.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate. | |
noun (n.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor. | |
noun (n.) To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage. | |
adjective (a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable. | |
verb (v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss. | |
verb (v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation. | |
verb (v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily. |
gaining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gain |
gainer | noun (n.) One who gains. |
gainful | adjective (a.) Profitable; advantageous; lucrative. |
gaingiving | noun (n.) A misgiving. |
gainless | adjective (a.) Not producing gain; unprofitable. |
gainly | adjective (a.) Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously. |
gainpain | noun (n.) Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier. |
gainsaying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gainsay |
gainsayer | noun (n.) One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. |
gainsome | adjective (a.) Gainful. |
adjective (a.) Prepossessing; well-favored. |
gainstanding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gainstand |
gairfowl | noun (n.) See Garefowl. |
gairish | noun (n.) Alt. of Gairish/ness |
gairishly | noun (n.) Alt. of Gairish/ness |
gairish/ness | noun (n.) Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness. |
gait | noun (n.) A going; a walk; a march; a way. |
noun (n.) Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. |
gaited | adjective (a.) Having (such) a gait; -- used in composition; as, slow-gaited; heavy-gaited. |
gaiter | noun (n.) A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe. |
noun (n.) A kind of shoe, consisting of cloth, and covering the ankle. | |
verb (v. t.) To dress with gaiters. |
gaitre | noun (n.) Alt. of Gaytre |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GAŻL:
English Words which starts with 'g' and ends with 'l':
gabel | noun (n.) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise. |
gadwall | noun (n.) A large duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck. |
gael | noun (n.sing. & pl.) A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin. |
galangal | noun (n.) The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kaempferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family. |
galenical | noun (an.) Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, galena. |
gall | noun (n.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder. |
noun (n.) The gall bladder. | |
noun (n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor. | |
noun (n.) Impudence; brazen assurance. | |
noun (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut. | |
noun (n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing. | |
verb (v. t.) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts. | |
verb (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable. | |
verb (v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm. | |
verb (v. t.) To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. | |
verb (v. i.) To scoff; to jeer. |
gambol | noun (n.) A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. |
verb (v. i.) To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs. |
gambrel | noun (n.) The hind leg of a horse. |
noun (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals. | |
verb (v. t.) To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel. |
gameful | adjective (a.) Full of game or games. |
ganglial | adjective (a.) Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic. |
ganil | noun (n.) A kind of brittle limestone. |
ganoidal | adjective (a.) Ganoid. |
gaol | noun (n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail. |
garbel | noun (n.) Same as Garboard. |
verb (v. t.) Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken. |
garboil | noun (n.) Tumult; disturbance; disorder. |
garefowl | noun (n.) The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk. |
gargil | noun (n.) A distemper in geese, affecting the head. |
gargol | noun (n.) A distemper in swine; garget. |
gashful | adjective (a.) Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. |
gasometrical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis. |
gastful | adjective (a.) Alt. of Gastly |
gastroduodenal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery. |
gastrointestinal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric. |
gastronomical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to gastromony. |
gaudful | adjective (a.) Joyful; showy. |
gaul | noun (n.) The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul). |
noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Gaul. |
gavel | noun (n.) A gable. |
noun (n.) A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. | |
noun (n.) The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc. | |
noun (n.) A mason's setting maul. | |
noun (n.) Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel. |
gavial | noun (n.) A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile. |
gayal | noun (n.) A Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle (Bibos frontalis). |
gazeful | adjective (a.) Gazing. |
gazel | noun (n.) The black currant; also, the wild plum. |
noun (n.) See Gazelle. |
geanticlinal | noun (n.) An upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal. |
gemel | noun (n.) One of the twins. |
noun (n.) One of the barrulets placed parallel and closed to each other. Cf. Bars gemel, under Gemel, a. | |
adjective (a.) Coupled; paired. |
geminal | adjective (a.) A pair. |
gemul | noun (n.) A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns. |
genealogical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order. |
general | adjective (a.) Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. |
adjective (a.) Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. | |
adjective (a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. | |
adjective (a.) Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. | |
adjective (a.) Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. | |
adjective (a.) As a whole; in gross; for the most part. | |
adjective (a.) Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. | |
adjective (a.) The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular. | |
adjective (a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal. | |
adjective (a.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general. | |
adjective (a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule. | |
adjective (a.) The public; the people; the vulgar. |
generical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a genus or kind; relating to a genus, as distinct from a species, or from another genus; as, a generic description; a generic difference; a generic name. |
adjective (a.) Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or their characteristics; -- opposed to specific. |
genesial | adjective (a.) Of or relating to generation. |
genethliacal | adjective (a.) Genethliac. |
genetical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development. |
genial | adjective (a.) Same as Genian. |
adjective (a.) Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive. | |
adjective (a.) Contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn. | |
adjective (a.) Denoting or marked with genius; belonging to the higher nature. |
genital | adjective (a.) Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs. |
genitival | adjective (a.) Possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb. |
genitocrural | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the genital organs and the thigh; -- applied especially to one of the lumbar nerves. |
genteel | adjective (a.) Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address. |
adjective (a.) Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law. | |
adjective (a.) Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance. |
gentil | noun (a. & n.) Gentle. |
gentilitial | adjective (a.) Alt. of Gentilitious |
geocentrical | adjective (a.) Having reference to the earth as center; in relation to or seen from the earth, -- usually opposed to heliocentric, as seen from the sun; as, the geocentric longitude or latitude of a planet. |
adjective (a.) Having reference to the center of the earth. | |
adjective (a.) Having, considering, or based on, the earth as center; as, the geocentric theory of the universe. |
geodesical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to geodesy; geodetic. |
geodetical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to geodesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic; as, geodetic surveying; geodetic observers. |
geognostical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological. |
geogonical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to geogony, or to the formation of the earth. |
geographical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to geography. |
geological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to geology, or the science of the earth. |
geomantical | adjective (a.) Pertaining or belonging to geomancy. |
geometral | adjective (a.) Pertaining to geometry. |
geometrical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem. |
geoponical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to tillage of the earth, or agriculture. |
georgical | adjective (a.) Relating to agriculture and rural affairs. |
geosynclinal | noun (n.) the downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal. |
gerbil | noun (n.) Alt. of Gerbille |
gerful | adjective (a.) Changeable; capricious. |
germicidal | adjective (a.) Germicide. |
germinal | noun (n.) The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See VendEmiaire. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the germ, or germ cells, as distinguished from the somatic cells. |
gerocomical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to gerocomy. |
gerundial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a gerund; as, a gerundial use. |
gestural | adjective (a.) Relating to gesture. |
ghastful | adjective (a.) Fit to make one aghast; dismal. |
ghoul | noun (n.) An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies. |
ghyll | noun (n.) A ravine. See Gill a woody glen. |
gibel | noun (n.) A kind of carp (Cyprinus gibelio); -- called also Prussian carp. |
gigantical | adjective (a.) Bulky, big. |
gill | noun (n.) An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia. |
noun (n.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom. | |
noun (n.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle. | |
noun (n.) The flesh under or about the chin. | |
noun (n.) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments. | |
noun (n.) A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber. | |
noun (n.) A leech. | |
noun (n.) A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream. | |
noun (n.) A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint. | |
noun (n.) A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl. | |
noun (n.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names. | |
noun (n.) Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy. |
gimbal | noun (n.) Alt. of Gimbals |
gimmal | noun (n.) Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings. |
noun (n.) A quaint piece of machinery; a gimmer. |
gommal | adjective (a.) Made or consisting of interlocked ring/ or links; as, gimmal mail. |
gingal | noun (n.) See Jingal. |
gingival | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the gums. |
ginglymoidal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform. |
girasole girasol | noun (n.) See Heliotrope. |
noun (n.) A variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color. |
girl | noun (n.) A young person of either sex; a child. |
noun (n.) A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden. | |
noun (n.) A female servant; a maidservant. | |
noun (n.) A roebuck two years old. |
glacial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena. |
adjective (a.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids. |
gladful | adjective (a.) Full of gladness; joyful; glad. |
gladiatorial | adjective (a.) Alt. of Gladiatorian |
glassful | noun (n.) The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will hold. |
adjective (a.) Glassy; shining like glass. |
gleeful | adjective (a.) Merry; gay; joyous. |
glenoidal | adjective (a.) Glenoid. |
glossal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual. |
glossarial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary. |
glossographical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to glossography. |
glossohyal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to both the hyoidean arch and the tongue; -- applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- n. The glossohyal bone or cartilage; lingual bone; entoglossal bone. |
glossological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to glossology. |
glossopharyngeal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. -- n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves. |
glottal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, the glottis; glottic. |
glottological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to glottology. |
glumal | adjective (a.) Characterized by a glume, or having the nature of a glume. |
gluteal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the glutaeus. |
glycerol | noun (n.) Same as Glycerin. |
glyceryl | noun (n.) A compound radical, C3H5, regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also propenyl. |