G-words, words starting with the letter “G”, like “G-men” can be gritty, exacting and uncompromising…sometimes they salaciously and lustfully invoke “the beast with two backs”. Here’s some fairly unorthodox, non-mainstream “G” words you quite possibly have not encountered before.
Gallimaufry: a mixture of different things; a hodge-podge [MFr galimafree (“a kind of stew concocted from various ingredients)]
Galluptious: (or Goloptious) wonderful, delightful, delicious; provocative and sexually alluring [origin uncertain, perhaps alteration of “voluptous]
Geophilious: live in or near the ground [Gk geo (“earth”) + -phil (“love”)]
Gewgaw: a showy trifle; a trinket; useless, worthless [ME. giuegaue (orig. meaning uncertain)]
Gigantology: the study of giants [Gk. “giant” + -logy]
Glabrous: without hair; smooth [L. glaber (“smooth”; “bald”; “hairless”)] 👨🏾🦲
Glossoid: like a tongue [Gk. glōssoeidēs + -oid] 👅
Gnomic: a phrase that’s short, catchy and clever; puzzling, enigmatic and ambiguous yet seemingly profound [Gk. gnome (“an opinion”)]
Goliard: a learned person, esp in the humanities; (hist.) a wandering, fun-seeking scholar/clerical student in medieval Europe who wrote goliardy (irreverent , satiric Latin verse) [MF, origin uncertain)]
Medieval Goliards (Image: faculty.sgc.edu)
Grallator: someone who walks on stilts (taking quite long strides); an ichnogenus dinosaur [L. grallotores (“stilt-walker”)] 🦕
Gremial: pertaining to the lap or bosom; intimate [L. gremium (“lap”)]
Gymnogynomania: urge to rip women’s clothes off [Gk. gymnos (“naked”; “bare”) + gyn (-“wife”; “-woman”) + -mania
Gymnophoria: the sensation that someone is mentally undressing you [Gk. gymnos (“naked”; “bare”) + -phoria (“to bear”)
Gynotikolobo-massophilia: a proclivity for nibbling one’s earlobes [Gk. gyn + –lobos (“earlobe”) + -masáomai (“to chew”) + -phile] 👂
The sixth letter in the alphabet is the consonant “F”. Pre-English, the Phoenicians used to write “F” with a symbol that looked a lot like “Y,” and pronounced it waw. The ancient Greeks changed it into digamma and put a tip on the “Y”, transforming it into the sixth letter in the alphabet we readily recognise today. The “f” sound has a kindred spirit in the “ph” as the two can be interchangeable in spelling, eg, people who live in the Philippines are called “Filipinos”. “F” for frank and forthright and “F” for frivolous and fickle…it would however be remiss of us to not acknowledge that the expression “F-word” has another, polarising, connotation which for many in society is still is a taboo one, as, to use a somewhat old-fashioned-sounding term, a “swear” word… “fuck” and its many derivatives such as “motherfucker”, “fucker”, etc. ad nauseam. So there you have it, “F”, all in all a letter for all seasons and dispositions!
Falerist (or Phalerist): someone who collects and studies medals, badges, pins, ribbons and other decorations [from the Greek mythological hero Phalerus: Gk. Phaleros]
Farraginous: consisting of a confusing mixture, orig. of grains for cattle feed (cf. Farrago); jumbled; messy; heterogenous[L. far “spelt” (ie, grain)]
Favonian: pertaining to the west wind (esp mild, gentle) 💨 [L. fovēre (“to warm”)] (cf. Zephyr)
Firmament: (Relig.) the vault or arch of the sky; the heavens; the field or sphere of an interest or activity [Late Latin. firmamentum, from L. firmare (“support”)]
Firmament
Flâneur: a man who saunters around observing society; a stroller (fem: approx comparable to Flaneuse). [Old Norse. flana (“to wander with no purpose)]
A metropolis full of flâneurs (image: The Art Story)
Flexiloquent: speaking evasively or ambiguously [L. flexibilis (“that may be bent”) + –loquēns (“speaking”; “talking”)]
Florilegium: an anthology esp excerpts of a larger work; collection of flowers [L. flos (“flower” +-legere (“to gather”)] 🌺
Frotteur: (Psycho-sex.) a person who derives sexual gratification—Frottage—thru contact with the clothed body of another person in a crowd [Fr. frotter (“to rub”)]
Funambulist/Funambulator: a tightrope walker; an acrobat who performs balancing acts on a taut, high horizontal rope (also known as an Equilibrist [L. funis (“rope”) + –ambulare (“to walk”)]
Funambulist ice-veined Philippe Petit with his flares at full mast, at his day job, Twin Towers 1974 (photo: Alan Welner/AP)
Fusilatelist: someone ( with a lot of time on their hands) who collects phone cards from telcos (origin unknown)
Fuselatelist: UK £5 telco cards (source: chinarfidfactory.com)
Futilitarian: a person devoted to futile pursuits; one who believes that human striving is futile [(19th neologism, a portmanteau word formed from blending “futile” and “utilitarian”]
Fysigunkus: a person devoid of curiosity [Scot. Eng, (19th. origin unknown]
The letter “D” corresponds tothe Semiticdalethand Greekdelta(Δ). “D” is also the Roman numeral for 500. The form (D) is thought toderivefrom an early pictograph, possiblyEgyptian, indicating the folding door of a tent. Later “D” got its more rounded shape, with which we are familiar, from theChalcidian alphabet,which the Latins may have borrowed for their alphabet (https://www.britannica.com/topic/D-letter). Words beginning with “D”, numero quattro in the English alphabetical order, are an eclectic lot. They can be delightful, decadent or distasteful. Here’s a brief sampler of logophile-friendly “D” words for serious verbivores. 
“Words, Words, Words”, mused Shakespeare’s brooding and enigmatic eponymous protagonist in Hamlet [Act II, Scene II]. Indeed, for those wordsmiths, verbivores and aficionados in the grips of logolepsy (fascination or obsession with words), words, lexemes, morphemes, lógos, verba, call it whatever you like, are the very stuff of the world. If you are like me and take a delight in being exposed to new words, always looking to add to the building blocks of your vocabulary, then your interest might be piqued enough to browse the following list of words, a select lexicon with entries which include the obscure, the archaic, the unusual, the peculiar and (sometimes) the downright creepily weird. To begin at the beginning, the letter “A”, primus intra pares among the strictly-ordered glyphs. “A” in the Latin alphabet is similar in shape to theAncient Greek letterAlpha, from which it derives.
Word
Meaning
Derivation
Abactor
cattle thief or rustler
L Late Latin abigō ('drive away')
Achloropsia
[cf. Acyanopsia colour-blind blue]
colour-blind green
Gk a + clor ('green') + -podia (rel. to 'sight')
Acephalous
lacking a (clearly defined) head
Gk akephalous ('headless')
Acersecomic
one who has never had his or her hair cut
Gk akersekómēs ('young with unshorn hair')
Acrologic
pertaining to initials; using a sign to represent a word denoting its initial letter or sound, assoc with hieroglyphics & acronyms
Fr acrologique
Adelphogamy
a form of polyandry; marriage of 2 or more brothers & 1 or more wives (context: Royal marriages in Ancient Egypt, usually between siblings)
occurring as a result of an external factor or by chance, rather than by design or inherent nature; coming from outside, not native
L adventicious (coming to us from abroad")
Agelast
someone who never laughs; a humourless person
Mid Fr agélastos ('not laughing')
Agersia
not growing old in appearance
Gk a ('not') + geras ('age')
Agnomen
an epithet; an appellation appended to a name (eg, Rufus the Indolent)
Anc Rome a 4th name occasionally bestowed on a citizen in honour of some achievement
Agnosy
ignorance esp universal ignorance; unenlightened; bereft of spiritual understanding or insight
Gk agnōsia ('ignorance')
Aleatory
something dependent on the throw of dice or on chance; random; (esp in indurance)
L alea a kind of dice game
Amanuensis
Iiterary or artistic assistant, in particular one who takes dictation or copies manuscripts
L amanu + -ensis ('slave at handwriting') + 'belonging to')
Ambivert
someone who a balance of extrovert & introvert features in their personality
L ambi ('on both sides') + vertere ('to turn')
Aneabil
unmarried; single
origin unknown
Anecdotage
someone with a tendency to be garrulous; anecdotes collectively
Gk anekdota ('unpublished') + -age
Anemocracy
government by the wind or by whim
Gk anemo ('wind') + -cracy ('rule')
Anhedonia
inability to feel pleasure in normally pleasurable activities
Fr anhédonia+ ('without pleasure')
Animadvert
criticise or censure; speak out against
L animadvert-ere ('to notice or remark on a subject')
Antanaclasis
a literary trope whereby a single word is repeated, but in 2 different senses (for effect, a common form of punning)
Gk antanáklasis ('reflection'; 'bending back')
Antelucan
pre-dawn
L ante ('before') + luc ('light')
Antemundane
existing before the creation of the world
L ante ('before') + Fr mondain ('of this world')
Antipudic
covering one's private parts
anti + L pudendum ('genitals'; shame')
Apodysophilia
feverish desire to undress (a form of exhibitionism)
origin unknown
Appurtenance
accessory associated with particular lifestyle, eg, luxury
OFr from L appertinere ("belong to")
Aptronym§
the name of a person which neatly matches or is amusingly appropriate to their occupation or character (eg, possessor of the highest-ever recorded IQ, Marilyn vos Savant; a Russian hurdler by the name of Marina Stepanova)
neologism, purportedly coined by US columnist Franklin P Adams
Archimage
great magician, wizard or enchanter 慄♂️
New Latin from Late Gk archimagus
Aristarch
a severe critic
after Aristarchus of Samothrace, a Greek grammarian, (2nd BC)
§ the concept of aptronym gives legs to the theory of nominative determinism which hypotheses that people tend to gravitate towards jobs that fit their surname, eg, a BBC weather presenter with the name Sara Blizzard ️
