Name Report For First Name GAN:
GAN
First name GAN's origin is Other. GAN means "a legend name". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with GAN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of gan.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with GAN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with GAN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming GAN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES GAN AS A WHOLE:
morgan agana regan czigany tzigane zigana gandhari jaganmata laodegan leodegan hafgan mynogan ganelon gano beagan mungan ganymede taregan bodgan argante daganya gana ganet ganice kygan maegan maganhildi mattigan meagan megan megane morgana morgance morgane morigan raegan reagan tagan teegan teigan branigan brogan chogan daegan deagan deegan donegan duggan eagan egan faegan fagan finnegan flanagan flannagan gann gannon golligan hagan hogan kagan keagan keegan kegan kerrigan korrigan logan mingan nigan riagan rogan ruadhagan gannie faodhagan aodhagan ganic ganit daganyah brigantia awiergan dreogan magan wregan wolfgang ganieda meleagant morrigan dagan teagan teganNAMES RHYMING WITH GAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (an) - Names That Ends with an:
achan ayan iman lishan loiyan nishan saran anan hanan janan rukan sawsan wijdan shoushan siran nuallan jolan yasiman siobhan ran papan teyacapan tonalnan shuman lilian bian tan abdiraxman aman hassan labaan sultan taban aidan germian nechtan willan al-asfan aswan bourkan farhan ferhan foursan lahthan lamaan ramadan sahran shaaban shoukran aban abdul-rahman arfan ayman burhan ghassan hamdan ihsan imran irfan luqman ma'n marwan nabhan nu'man omran othman rahman rayhan ridwan safwan salman sofian sulaiman yaman bedrosian dickran hovan izmirlian karayan korian vartan ban adiran alan condan duncan fiallan gelban morfran pendaran taran pulan siman dehaan deman geldersman van woudman zeeman lukmanNAMES RHYMING WITH GAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming 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 gaia gaige gail gaila gaile gair gaira gairbhith gairbith gais gaizka 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 galliaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GAN:
First Names which starts with 'g' and ends with 'n':
galton galvin galvyn galyn garaden garadin garadun garadyn garan garatun garbhan garen garin garion garlan garlen garlyn garman garmann garmon garon garran garren garrin garrison garrman garron garrson garson garton garvan garvin garvyn garwin garwyn gascon gaston gauvain gavan gaven gavin gavyn gawain gawen gawyn gaylen gedeon geralyn geralynn germain german geron gerrilyn gervin geryon ghislain ghusoon ghusun gian gibson gideon gildan gille-eathain gillean gillian gilpin gin giollanaebhin gionnan girven girvyn gladwin gladwyn gleann glen glendon glenn glyn glynn godewyn godwin golden goldwin goldwyn goodwin goodwyn gordain gordan gordon gormain gorman gosheven gotzon govannon gowan gowyn gracelyn gracelynn gracen gracinEnglish Words Rhyming GAN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES GAN AS A WHOLE:
| adragant | noun (n.) Gum tragacanth. |
| aganglionic | adjective (a.) Without ganglia. |
| arrogance | noun (n.) The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption. |
| arrogancy | noun (n.) Arrogance. |
| arrogant | adjective (a.) Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons. |
| adjective (a.) Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior. |
| arrogantness | noun (n.) Arrogance. |
| bergander | noun (n.) A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake. |
| biorgan | noun (n.) A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan. |
| birgander | noun (n.) See Bergander. |
| brachioganoid | noun (n.) One of the Brachioganoidei. |
| brachioganoidei | noun (n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii. |
| brigand | noun (n.) A light-armed, irregular foot soldier. |
| noun (n.) A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. |
| brigandage | noun (n.) Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder. |
| brigandine | noun (n.) A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages. |
| brigandish | adjective (a.) Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike. |
| brigandism | noun (n.) Brigandage. |
| brigantine | noun (n.) A practical vessel. |
| noun (n.) A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail. | |
| noun (n.) See Brigandine. |
| brogan | noun (n.) A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue. |
| burganet | noun (n.) See Burgonet. |
| chondroganoidea | noun (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton. |
| collitigant | noun (n.) One who litigates or wrangles. |
| adjective (a.) Disputing or wrangling. |
| coprophagan | noun (n.) A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung. |
| corrugant | adjective (a.) Having the power of contracting into wrinkles. |
| cycloganoid | noun (n.) One of the Cycloganoidei. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cycloganoidei. |
| cycloganoidei | noun (n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin (Amia calva) is a living example. |
| derogant | adjective (a.) Derogatory. |
| disorganizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disorganize |
| disorganizer | noun (n.) One who disorganizes or causes disorder and confusion. |
| dragantine | noun (n.) A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth. |
| doppelganger | noun (n.) A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker. |
| doubleganger | noun (n.) An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelganger. |
| ectorganism | noun (n.) An external parasitic organism. |
| elegance | noun (n.) Alt. of Elegancy |
| elegancy | noun (n.) The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc. |
| noun (n.) That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive. |
| elegant | adjective (a.) Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure. |
| adjective (a.) Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste. |
| entomophagan | noun (n.) One of the Entomophaga. |
| adjective (a.) Relating to the Entomophaga. |
| entorganism | noun (n.) An internal parasitic organism. |
| euganoidei | noun (n. pl.) A group which includes the bony ganoids, as the gar pikes. |
| extravagance | noun (n.) A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit. |
| noun (n.) The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands. |
| extravagancy | noun (n.) Extravagance. |
| extravagant | noun (n.) One who is confined to no general rule. |
| noun (n.) Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law. | |
| adjective (a.) Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. | |
| adjective (a.) Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse. | |
| adjective (a.) Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man. |
| extravagantness | noun (n.) The state of being extravagant or in excess; excess; extravagance. |
| extravaganza | noun (n.) A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature. |
| noun (n.) An extravagant flight of sentiment or language. |
| foreganger | noun (n.) A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin/ may be attached. |
| fumigant | adjective (a.) Fuming. |
| gallegan | noun (n.) Alt. of Gallego |
| ganch | noun (n.) To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment. |
| gander | noun (n.) The male of any species of goose. |
| ganesa | noun (n.) The Hindoo god of wisdom or prudence. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (an) - English Words That Ends with an:
| abderian | adjective (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment. |
| abecedarian | noun (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro. |
| noun (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet. | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Abecedary |
| abelian | noun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
| abelonian | noun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel. |
| absinthian | noun (n.) Of the nature of wormwood. |
| abyssinian | noun (n.) A native of Abyssinia. |
| noun (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia. |
| academian | noun (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college. |
| academician | noun (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. |
| noun (n.) A collegian. |
| acadian | noun (n.) A native of Acadie. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. |
| acalephan | noun (n.) One of the Acalephae. |
| acanthopterygian | noun (n.) A spiny-finned fish. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. |
| acaridan | noun (n.) One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks. |
| accadian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. |
| acephalan | noun (n.) Same as Acephal. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the Acephala. |
| achaean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Achaian |
| achaian | noun (n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. |
| achean | noun (a & n.) See Achaean, Achaian. |
| achillean | adjective (a.) Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible. |
| acoustician | noun (n.) One versed in acoustics. |
| acritan | noun (n.) An individual of the Acrita. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita. |
| acroceraunian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. |
| acrolithan | adjective (a.) Alt. of Acrolithic |
| acropolitan | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an acropolis. |
| adamantean | adjective (a.) Of adamant; hard as adamant. |
| adessenarian | noun (n.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. |
| adonean | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. |
| adrian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows. |
| aegean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago. |
| aeolian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial. |
| aeonian | adjective (a.) Eternal; everlasting. |
| aesculapian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal. |
| aesthetican | noun (n.) One versed in aesthetics. |
| afghan | noun (n.) A native of Afghanistan. |
| noun (n.) A kind of worsted blanket or wrap. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Afghanistan. |
| african | noun (n.) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Africa. |
| agrarian | noun (n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property. |
| noun (n.) An agrarian law. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. | |
| adjective (a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields. |
| ahriman | noun (n.) The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light. |
| alabastrian | adjective (a.) Alabastrine. |
| alan | noun (n.) A wolfhound. |
| alban | noun (n.) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether. |
| albanian | noun (n.) A native of Albania. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey. |
| albigensian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Albigenses. |
| alcoran | noun (n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). |
| aldebaran | noun (n.) A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades. |
| alderman | noun (n.) A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. |
| noun (n.) One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions. |
| aleutian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Aleutic |
| alexandrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library. |
| adjective (a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n. |
| algerian | noun (n.) A native of Algeria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria. |
| alkoran | noun (n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran. |
| allophylian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. |
| alloxan | noun (n.) An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ga) - Words That Begins with ga:
| gab | noun (n.) The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric. |
| verb (v. i.) The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness. | |
| verb (v. i.) To deceive; to lie. | |
| verb (v. i.) To talk idly; to prate; to chatter. |
| gabarage | noun (n.) A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods. |
| gabardine | noun (n.) Alt. of Gaberdine |
| gaberdine | noun (n.) A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress. |
| noun (n.) See Gabardine. |
| gabber | noun (n.) A liar; a deceiver. |
| noun (n.) One addicted to idle talk. |
| gabbling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gabble |
| gabble | noun (n.) Loud or rapid talk without meaning. |
| noun (n.) Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls. | |
| verb (v. i.) To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber. | |
| verb (v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls. |
| gabbier | noun (n.) One who gabbles; a prater. |
| gabbro | noun (n.) A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro). |
| gabel | noun (n.) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise. |
| gabeler | noun (n.) A collector of gabels or taxes. |
| gabelle | noun (n.) A tax, especially on salt. |
| gabelleman | noun (n.) A gabeler. |
| gabert | noun (n.) A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation. |
| gabion | noun (n.) A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire. |
| noun (n.) An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement. |
| gabionade | noun (n.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire. |
| noun (n.) A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements. |
| gabionage | noun (n.) The part of a fortification built of gabions. |
| gabioned | adjective (p. a.) Furnished with gabions. |
| gabionnade | noun (n.) See Gabionade. |
| gable | noun (n.) A cable. |
| noun (n.) The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like. | |
| noun (n.) The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side. | |
| noun (n.) A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway. |
| gablet | noun (n.) A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc. |
| gablock | noun (n.) A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock. |
| gaby | noun (n.) A simpleton; a dunce; a lout. |
| gad | noun (n.) The point of a spear, or an arrowhead. |
| noun (n.) A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A sharp-pointed rod; a goad. | |
| noun (n.) A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling. | |
| noun (n.) A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel. | |
| noun (n.) A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with. | |
| noun (n.) To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled. |
| gadding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gad |
| noun (a. & n.) Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. |
| gadabout | noun (n.) A gadder |
| gadbee | noun (n.) The gadfly. |
| gadder | noun (n.) One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip. |
| gaddish | adjective (a.) Disposed to gad. |
| gade | noun (n.) A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family. |
| noun (n.) A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also gead. |
| gadfly | noun (n.) Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies. |
| gadhelic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to that division of the Celtic languages, which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx. |
| adjective (a.) Of, belonging to, or designating, that division of the Celtic languages which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx. |
| gadic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the cod (Gadus); -- applied to an acid obtained from cod-liver oil, viz., gadic acid. |
| gaditanian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cadiz. |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain. |
| gadling | noun (n.) See Gad, n., 4. |
| noun (n.) A roving vagabond. | |
| verb (v. i.) Gadding about. |
| gadman | noun (n.) A gadsman. |
| gadoid | noun (n.) One of the Gadidae. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadidae) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake. |
| gadolinia | noun (n.) A rare earth, regarded by some as an oxide of the supposed element gadolinium, by others as only a mixture of the oxides of yttrium, erbium, ytterbium, etc. |
| noun (n.) A rare earth associated with yttria and regarded as the oxide (Gd2O3) of a metallic element, Gad`o*lin"i*um (/), with an assigned atomic weight of 153.3. |
| gadolinic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to or containing gadolinium. |
| gadolinite | noun (n.) A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron. |
| gadolinium | noun (n.) A supposed rare metallic element, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare metals. Its individuality and properties have not yet been determined. |
| gadsman | noun (n.) One who uses a gad or goad in driving. |
| gaduin | noun (n.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance, of indifferent nature, found in cod-liver oil. |
| 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. |
| gaelic | noun (n.) The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language. |
| gaff | noun (n.) A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish. |
| noun (n.) The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Gaffle, 1. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon. |
| gaffing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gaff |
| gaffer | noun (n.) An old fellow; an aged rustic. |
| noun (n.) A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers. |
| gaffle | noun (n.) An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks. |
| noun (n.) A lever to bend crossbows. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GAN:
English Words which starts with 'g' and ends with 'n':
| 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. |
| gainpain | noun (n.) Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier. |
| galactin | noun (n.) An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent. |
| noun (n.) A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron). | |
| noun (n.) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose. |
| galatian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor. |
| galban | noun (n.) Alt. of Galbanum |
| galician | noun (n.) A native of Galicia in Spain; -- called also Gallegan. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland. |
| galilean | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans. |
| noun (n.) One of the party among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans; -- called also Gaulonite. | |
| noun (n.) A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Mohammedans and Pagans. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to Galilee. |
| gallein | noun (n.) A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids. |
| galleon | noun (n.) A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel. |
| gallian | adjective (a.) Gallic; French. |
| gallican | noun (n.) An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallic; French; as, the Gallican church or clergy. |
| gallin | noun (n.) A substance obtained by the reduction of gallein. |
| gallinacean | noun (n.) One of the Gallinae or gallinaceous birds. |
| gallon | noun (n.) A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure. |
| galloon | noun (n.) A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental. |
| noun (n.) A similar bordering or binding of rich material, such as gold lace. |
| galvanization | noun (n.) The act of process of galvanizing. |
| gambeson | noun (n.) Same as Gambison. |
| gambison | noun (n.) A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted. |
| gambogian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Gambogic |
| gambroon | noun (n.) A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining. |
| gamin | noun (n.) A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab. |
| gammadion | noun (n.) A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot. |
| gammon | noun (n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. |
| noun (n.) Backgammon. | |
| noun (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. | |
| verb (v. t.) To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. |
| gangion | noun (n.) A short line attached to a trawl. See Trawl, n. |
| ganglion | noun (n.) A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve. |
| noun (n.) A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion. | |
| noun (n.) A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew. |
| ganoidian | noun (a. & n.) Ganoid. |
| garancin | noun (n.) An extract of madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of alizarin. |
| garden | noun (n.) A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. |
| noun (n.) A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cultivate as a garden. |
| gardon | noun (n.) A European cyprinoid fish; the id. |
| gargantuan | adjective (a.) Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate. |
| garran | noun (n.) See Galloway. |
| garrison | noun (n.) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town. |
| noun (n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town. | |
| verb (v. t.) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory. |
| garron | noun (n.) Same as Garran. |
| gascon | noun (n.) A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering. |
| gasification | noun (n.) The act or process of converting into gas. |
| gasogen | noun (n.) An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid. |
| noun (n.) A volatile hydrocarbon, used as an illuminant, or for charging illuminating gas. |
| gasserian | adjective (a.) Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion. |
| gastrulation | noun (n.) The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed. |
| gateman | noun (n.) A gate keeper; a gate tender. |
| gaudygreen | noun (a. / n.) Light green. |
| gawn | noun (n.) A small tub or lading vessel. |
| gazon | noun (n.) One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks. |
| gean | noun (n.) A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color. |
| geason | adjective (a.) Rare; wonderful. |
| gecarcinian | noun (n.) A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus, or of allied genera. |
| geckotian | noun (n.) A gecko. |
| gein | noun (n.) See Humin. |
| gelatification | noun (n.) The formation of gelatin. |
| gelatin | noun (n.) Alt. of Gelatine |
| gelatination | noun (n.) The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly. |
| gelatinization | noun (n.) Same as Gelatination. |
| gelation | noun (n.) The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying. |
| gemination | noun (n.) A doubling; duplication; repetition. |
| gemmation | noun (n.) The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding. |
| noun (n.) The arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud. |
| gemmification | noun (n.) The production of a bud or gem. |
| gemmulation | noun (n.) See Gemmation. |
| generalization | noun (n.) The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. |
| noun (n.) A general inference. |
| generation | noun (n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals. |
| noun (n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc. | |
| noun (n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring. | |
| noun (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age. | |
| noun (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock. | |
| noun (n.) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction. |
| generification | noun (n.) The act or process of generalizing. |
| genevan | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Geneva. |
| noun (n.) A supported of Genevanism. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevese. |
| genian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the chin; mental; as, the genian prominence. |
| geniculation | noun (n.) The act of kneeling. |
| noun (n.) The state of being bent abruptly at an angle. |
| gentian | noun (n.) Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule. |
| gentiopikrin | noun (n.) A bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and obtained from the gentian. |
| gentisin | noun (n.) A tasteless, yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from the gentian; -- called also gentianin. |
| gentleman | noun (n.) A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman. |
| noun (n.) One of gentle or refined manners; a well-bred man. | |
| noun (n.) One who bears arms, but has no title. | |
| noun (n.) The servant of a man of rank. | |
| noun (n.) A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc. |
| gentlewoman | noun (n.) A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. |
| noun (n.) A woman who attends a lady of high rank. |
| genuflection | noun (n.) The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship. |
| geologian | noun (n.) A geologist. |
| geometrician | noun (n.) One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician. |
| georgian | noun (n.) A native of, or dweller in, Georgia. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Georgia, in Asia, or to Georgia, one of the United States. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to the reigns of the four Georges, kings of Great Britan; as, the Georgian era. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Georgia, one of the United States. |
| gephyrean | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Gephyrea. -- n. One of the Gerphyrea. |
| gerfalcon | noun (n.) See Gyrfalcon. |
| germain | adjective (a.) See Germane. |
| german | noun (n.) A native or one of the people of Germany. |
| noun (n.) The German language. | |
| noun (n.) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures. | |
| noun (n.) A social party at which the german is danced. | |
| noun (n.) Of or pertaining to Germany. | |
| adjective (a.) Nearly related; closely akin. |
| germanization | noun (n.) The act of Germanizing. |
| germen | noun (n.) See Germ. |
| germination | noun (n.) The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable. |
| germogen | noun (n.) A polynuclear mass of protoplasm, not divided into separate cells, from which certain ova are developed. |
| noun (n.) The primitive cell in certain embryonic forms. |
| gestation | noun (n.) The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). |
| noun (n.) The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy. | |
| noun (n.) Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise. |
| gesticulation | noun (n.) The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments. |
| noun (n.) A gesture; a motion of the body or limbs in speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments. | |
| noun (n.) Antic tricks or motions. |
| gherkin | noun (n.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles. |
| noun (n.) See Sea gherkin. |
| gibbon | noun (n.) Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing. |
| gigantean | adjective (a.) Like a giant; mighty; gigantic. |
| gilden | adjective (a.) Gilded. |
| gillian | noun (n.) A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill. |
| gin | noun (n.) Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. |
| noun (n.) A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine. | |
| noun (n.) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. | |
| noun (n.) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim. | |
| noun (n.) A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin. | |
| verb (v. i.) To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan. | |
| verb (v. t.) To catch in a trap. | |
| verb (v. t.) To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton. | |
| (conj.) If. |
| gipoun | noun (n.) A short cassock. |
| girkin | noun (n.) See Gherkin. |
| girn | noun (n.) To grin. |
| gittern | noun (n.) An instrument like a guitar. |
| verb (v. i.) To play on gittern. |
| glaciation | noun (n.) Act of freezing. |
| noun (n.) That which is formed by freezing; ice. | |
| noun (n.) The process of glaciating, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena. |
| gladen | noun (n.) Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, esp. the European Iris foetidissima. |
| gladiatorian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general. |
| gladwyn | noun (n.) See Gladen. |
| glairin | noun (n.) A glairy viscous substance, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; -- called also baregin. |
| glandulation | noun (n.) The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants. |
| glassen | adjective (a.) Glassy; glazed. |
| glazen | adjective (a.) Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. |
| glean | noun (n.) A collection made by gleaning. |
| noun (n.) Cleaning; afterbirth. | |
| verb (v. t.) To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering. | |
| verb (v. t.) To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left. | |
| verb (v. t.) To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain. | |
| verb (v. i.) To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers. | |
| verb (v. i.) To pick up or gather anything by degrees. |
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