Word origins

• gomphothereAny of the extinct proboscideans of the family Gomphotheriidae, that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene (12—1.6 million years ago), and latterly also in South America (around 3 million to 9100 years ago).
• -gonForms the names of plane figures containing a given number of internal angles, and thus bounded by that number of line segments (polygons).
• gon-sexual reproduction, especially male
• gonagragout in the knee
• gongylidiumA hyphal swelling of fungus which is cultivated by certain ants.
• -gonimeProductive, fertile, fruitful
• gonio-angle.
• goniorhynchidAny of the extinct microsaur genus †Goniorhynchus (a synonym of †Rhynchonkos).
• gonitisInflammation of the knee joint.
• -goniumA reproductive structure of some organisms
• gonodactyloidAny mantis shrimp in the superfamily Gonodactyloidea
• -gonyForms nouns that describe the genesis of a class of thing.
• gony-Knee.
• gonyalgiaPain in the knee.
• gonyaulaxAn alga of the genus Gonyaulax.
• gonycampsisAbnormal bending or curvature of the knee.
• gonycrotesisThe clicking or cracking sound made by a knee joint during movement.
• gonyleptoidAny harvestman of the superfamily Gonyleptoidea.
• gonyoncusA tumor or swelling of the knee; inflammation of the knee joint.
• gonysthe lower ridge of the lower mandible of a bird's beak, located at the junction of the bone's two rami (lateral plates)
• gorgoneionA (representation of a) gorgon's head, especially that of Medusa.
• gorgosaurusA tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur of the genus Gorgosaurus that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian), between about 76.6 and 75.1 million years ago.
• GorillaiA tribe of hairy women described by Hanno the Navigator.
• GortynAncient city in central Crete, Greece.
• GraeaeThree sisters, old women with grey hair — Deino (or Dino), Enyo, and Pemphredo (or Pephredo) — who shared a single eye and a single tooth. They were daughters of the sea-deities Phorcys and Ceto.
• -gramSomething written, drawn or otherwise recorded.
• gramogramA letter or sequence of letters which resemble the sound of a word when the names of the letters are spoken in sequence.
• -graphthat writes
• -graphersomeone who writes about a specified subject, or in a specified manner
• -graphiaForms names of writing impairments.
• -graphicForming adjectives pertaining to writing (of a type specified by the first element).
• grapho-writing
• grapholiteAny variety of slate suitable to be written on.
• great martyrA saint who was martyred after suffering great torture.
• Great MediaThe larger, southern portion of ancient Media following the latter’s partition by the Macedonians, the smaller northern portion being Atropatian Media, also known as Atropatia or Atropatene.
• Greek footThe ancient Greek, Byzantine, or early modern Greek unit of distance derived from the shod foot and roughly equivalent to the English foot unit.
• gryllosA caricatural creature found in ancient and medieval art, typically featuring a human head with mostly bizarre, animal anatomy.
• gylanyA social system based on equality of women and men.
• gymniteAn amorphous form of antigorite.
• gymno-naked
• gymnodomousLacking an envelope; open to the surrounding environment.
• GymnopaediaAn annual celebration in ancient Sparta, during which naked young men displayed their athletic and martial skills through dancing.
• gymnopaedicHaving young that are featherless when hatched.
• gynæc-woman, female
• gynaeco-woman, female.
• gynandrousHaving stamens and pistils together in a column.
• gyneconomeAn Ancient Athenian civil servant whose job was to apply sumptuary laws and ensure adult women behaved morally.
• gynecophileSomeone sexually attracted to women.
• gynemimeticA transfeminine individual or trans woman who has not had sex reassignment surgery.
• gyneromanticRomantically attracted to women, female-identified persons, or femininity.
• gyno-Of or pertaining to women.
• gynotikolobomassophileA person who enjoys nibbling the earlobes of women.
• -gynythe state of having a specific number of wives
• gyro-circle; circular or spinning motion
• gyrogoniteThe petrified fruit of several species of stonewort
• gyroliteA hexagonal-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
• habromaniaa form of insanity characterised by delusions of a cheerful or joyous nature
• HadeanPertaining to Hades or hell.
• hado-Of or relating to the deepest parts of the ocean.
• hadro-Hadron; hadronic.
• haemalPertaining to the blood or blood vessels.
• haematidA red blood cell.
• haematidrosisA very rare disorder in which the patient sweats blood and/or blood pigments, usually resulting from extreme physical and/or mental stress.
• haemato-blood
• haematoporphyrinhaematoin
• haemo-Pertaining to blood.
• haemolacriaThe shedding of tears containing blood
• Hagia SophiaA mosque in Istanbul, Turkey
• hagio-saints
• halinesalty; saline
• halo-sea, salt, salt water
• haloxylineAn explosive compound of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and potassium ferrocyanide, formerly used as a substitute for gunpowder.
• haltereA small knobbed structure in some two-winged insects, one of a pair that are flapped rapidly and function as accelerometers to maintain stability in flight.
• halurgistA salt worker.
• hamarthritisGeneralized arthritis, affecting all the joints.
• hamartiaThe tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy.
• hapaxanthA plant of a kind that flowers only once in its lifetime and then dies.
• hapax legomenonA word occurring only once in a given corpus.
• haphephobiaThe fear of being touched.
• haplo-Haploid: having a single set of unpaired chromosomes.
• haplontAny haplontic organism; any organism whose zygotes undergo zygotic meiosis (meiosis immediately after the fusion of cell nuclei).
• haplorrhineAny primate of the evolved clade (half of the order) which comprises all apes (including hominoids), monkeys and even (prosimian) tarsiers
• hapteronA branched swelling at the base of an aquatic plant (such as an alga) that it uses to fix itself in place
• hareleafAny plant in the genus Lagophylla- annual flowers of the western US having leaves covered by dense, soft hairs reminiscent of a rabbit's fur.
• harmostA governor or ruler appointed by the Spartans in the cities they subjugated.
• harmotomeA rare zeolite, a hydrated barium silicate that forms vitreous white monoclinic crystals.
• harpaxAn Ancient Roman catapult-shot grapnel.
• HarpocratesThe god of silence, secrets and confidentiality.
• HathyrThe third month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the third month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Hathyr has been in roughly November.
• heautoscopyA hallucination in which one sees one's own body from a distance.
• hebdo-In the metric system, multiplies the attached unit by 10⁷.
• HebdomumA suburb of Constantinople.
• hebe-relating to youth
• hebephreniaA form of schizophrenia characterized by inappropriate behavior and emotional responses.
• hebeticOf or related to youth or to puberty.
• heboidOf or relating to hebephrenia.
• HebraizeTo convert (something) into a Hebrew/Hebraic form.
• hecastotheismA general form of animism in which both animate and inanimate objects are believed to have supernatural powers.
• hecato-One hundred; one hundred times.
• HecatombaeonA town of ancient Achaea in the territory of Dyme, between that city and the frontiers of Elis.