Words in english starting with G

• give the gate — Verb – English ～ terminate a relationship abruptly; "Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman"
• give the axe — Verb – English ～ terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
• get the best — Verb – English ～ overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
• give it the deep six — Verb – English ～ toss out; get rid of; "deep-six these old souvenirs!"
• give the glad eye — Verb – English ～ look seductively at someone
• get off the ground — Verb – English ～ get started or set in motion, used figuratively; "the project took a long time to get off the ground"
• give the bounce — Verb – English ～ terminate a relationship abruptly; "Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman"
• give the sack — Verb – English ～ terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
• give the once over — Verb – English ～ look at with a critical eye; "When the movie star entered, all the women gave him the once over"
• get the goods — Verb – English ～ discover some bad or hidden information about; "She got the goods on her co-worker after reading his e-mail"
• gill-over-the-ground — Noun – English ～ trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta
• Gregory the Great — Noun – English ～ (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership; a saint and Doctor of the Church (540?-604)
• Gates of the Arctic National Park — Noun – English ～ a large national park in Alaska featuring the Great Mendenhall Glacier
• gall of the earth — Noun – English ～ common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes
• guerrilla theater — Noun – English ～ dramatization of a social issue; enacted outside in a park or on the street
• grand theft — Noun – English ～ larceny of property having a value greater than some amount (the amount varies by locale)
• genus Thelypteris — Noun – English ～ marsh ferns: in some classification systems considered part of genus Dryopteris in family Dryopteridaceae
• genus Theobroma — Noun – English ～ cacao plants
• Gustav Theodor Fechner — Noun – English ～ German physicist who founded psychophysics; derived Fechner's law on the basis of early work by E. H. Weber (1801-1887)
• Glenn Theodore Seaborg — Noun – English ～ United States chemist who was one of the discoverers of plutonium (1912-1999)

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