Word origins

• good-heartedKind and well-intentioned.
• good heavensAn exclamation of surprise or shock.
• goodlessWithout goods or property; destitute.
• goodliheadThe character or nature of a goodly person; goodliness.
• good morningUsed as a greeting when meeting someone for the first time in the morning.
• good morrowGood morning.
• good natureHabitual kindness or mildness of temper or disposition; amiability.
• goodshipgoodness
• goodwifeA female head of a household.
• gooneyAny of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes) and the Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis), that dwell primarily on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
• gooseherdA person who tends to geese.
• gossipredRelationship by baptismal rites; spiritual affinity or parentage; sponsorship.
• goundyGummy or mattery, as in sore eyes.
• governailThat which steers a nautical vessel; a rudder or a person employing it.
• governeressA governess (woman employed to educate children).
• governoressA woman employed to educate children in private households.
• gowkA cuckoo.
• gracelesslyIn a graceless manner
• graciositygraciousness, usually in a bad sense, as implying duplicity
• gradelydecent, well-meaning, respectable
• graithTo make ready; prepare; put in order; make fit for use.
• gramaryeGrammar; learning.
• grameAnger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
• grammar schoolA school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.
• grandfatherlessWithout a grandfather.
• grand juryA group of citizens assembled by the government to hear evidence against an accused, and determine whether an indictment for a crime should be brought.
• grandmotherlessWithout a grandmother.
• granterOne who grants.
• granulousgranular
• grape kernelThe kernel of a grape; grapeseed
• grapeyResembling grapes.
• grapnelA small anchor, having more than two flukes, used for anchoring a small vessel.
• grass-greenA bright green color, like that of grass.
• grasshopA grasshopper.
• grasslessLacking grass.
• gravelerOne who deals, sells, or works with gravel
• gravelousSynonym of gravelly.
• gravidationpregnancy
• great-With familial designations, used to denote a removal of one generation
• Great BritainA large island (sometimes also including some of the surrounding smaller islands) off the north-west coast of Western Europe, made up of England, Scotland, and Wales.
• greatenTo become great or large; increase; dilate.
• greatheartedNobly courageous; bighearted; magnanimous.
• great toeSynonym of big toe.
• great-uncleAn uncle of one's parent (i.e. a brother or brother-in-law of one's grandparent).
• greaveA bush; a tree; a grove.
• GreekishResembling or having the characteristics of Greek or the Greek people.
• GreeklandThe land of the Greeks; Greece: A country in Southeastern Europe
• green waxAn estreat from the Exchequer, delivered to a sheriff, sealed upon green wax, in 15th-century England.
• greeveA reeve; steward.
• grilseA young salmon after its first return from the sea.
• grimfulCharacterised by grimness; harsh, wrathful, terrible.
• grimlinessThe state, quality, or condition of being grimly.
• grindle-stoneA grindstone.
• grindsterOne who grinds (all senses).
• grippleGriping; tenacious; gripping.
• gristbiteTo gnash one's teeth.
• grithGuaranteed security, sanctuary, safe conduct.
• grittenMade of or consisting of grits.
• groatyMade or consisting of groats.
• groundableCapable of being electrically grounded.
• groundlyFirmly grounded; solid; of education: complete, thorough, well-grounded.
• groundsillA timber beam used as the foundation for a building.
• groundwallA wall as foundation; a foundation.
• groundwayIn shipbuilding, a substantial foundation of wood or stone for the blocks on which a vessel is built.
• groundyOf or relating to the ground; earthly
• groyneAn often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.
• grundelA kind of fish, the groundling.
• grutchTo murmur, complain.
• grypeA vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.
• guerdonA reward, prize or recompense for a service; an accolade.
• guestchamberA chamber for the purpose of housing a guest; a guestroom.
• guigeA strap attached to a shield, used to hang the shield over the shoulder or from the neck.
• guilefulFull of guile; treacherously deceptive.
• guilefullyIn a guileful manner.
• guilefulnessThe quality of being guileful; cunning or deceit.
• guilerA deceiver, a beguiler.
• guilesomeCharacterised or marked by guile or deceit; deceitful.
• guiltinessThe state of being guilty; guilt.
• gum ammoniacSynonym of ammoniacum: A gum-resin exuded from the several perennial herbs in the genus Ferula of the umbel family (Apiaceae).
• gunstoneA cannonball.
• gurgesA whirlpool.
• gyveA shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.
• habergeonA sleeveless or short-sleeved coat of mail armour (a shorter hauberk).
• habileGenerally able or adroit; handy.
• habilimentClothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
• habitacleA dwelling or habitation.
• hadderheather or heath
• hafterA maker of handles for knives and other tools
• HagareneAn (early) Arab Muslim.
• haggadayA ring forming the handle for raising the latch on a door.
• haggisterA magpie.
• HagiographaThe third division of the Hebrew scriptures; the Ketuvim.
• hagwormA common snake, such as an adder or a viper.
• Hail MaryA prayer, of established or conventional wording, calling for the intercession of the Virgin Mary.
• hairenConsisting or made of hair
• hakedThe pike (fish).
• half-half or partial; not complete
• half-brokenHalfway or partially broken; somewhat broken.
• half brotherA male sibling sharing a single parent, as distinguished from a full brother or brother-german, from a step-brother, or from a brother-like figure such as a blood brother.
• halfdeadHalfway dead; only partially alive.