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3,284 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

grumeler: to become lumpy
grumeleux: lumpy; bumpy
grunge: grunge
gruon: young crane (bird)
gruppetto: gruppetto
grurin: A local cheesemaker, especially of Gruyère
gruter: to move using a crane
grutier: crane operator
gruyère: Gruyère cheese
grylle: gryllos (ancient and medieval caricature with human face)
gryphée: devil's toenail
grâce: grace, charm; favour; mercy
grâce à: thanks to
grèbe: grebe (bird)
grège: raw or unfinished silk; the colour of such silk, closely akin to taupe; greyish-beige, greige
grège: of silk: raw; of the colour of such silk, between grey and beige; greige
grègue: coffee pot
grès: sandstone; stoneware
grève: bank (of a river); shore, strand
grève: strike (cessation of work)
grève: greave
grève de la faim: hunger strike (fast undertaken as a means of protest)
grève du sexe: sex strike, sex boycott (strike involving the withholding of sex from one's partner until demands are met)
grève du zèle: work-to-rule (labor protest in which employees do only the minimum work required by the rules of a workplace, following safety or other regulations to the letter in order to cause a slowdown)
grève générale: general strike
grève sauvage: wildcat strike
gré: satisfaction, pleasure; will; liking
gréciser: to Grecize (render Grecian); to Grecize (translate into Greek)
grécité: Graecity; Greekness; Greek nature, culture or spirit
gréco-bactrien: Greco-Bactrian
gréco-latin: Greco-Latin
gréco-romain: Greco-Roman
gréco-égyptien: Greco-Egyptian
gréement: rigging (system of ropes, chains, and tackle); rigging (act of rigging)
gréer: to rig
grégaire: gregarious
grégariapte: tending to become gregarious
grégarisme: gregariousness
grégeois: of Grèges
grégeois: Greek, Grecian
grégorien: Gregorian
grémil: gromwell
grémille: ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua); crumb
gréseux: sandstone
grésil: sleet, ice pellet
grésillement: sizzling; crackling (radio interference)
grésiller: to crackle; to sizzle; to sleet
grévillaire: southern silky oak (Grevillea robusta)
grévillée: silky oak (of genus Grevillea)
gréviste: striker, someone on strike
grêle: hail
grêle: spindly, lanky
grêler: to hail
grêlon: a hailstone
guacamole: guacamole (dip)
guadeloupéen: Guadeloupean
guamien: Guamian
guanaco: guanaco (a South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae)
guanidine: guanidine
guanine: guanine