Giant puffball The Giant puffball is a puffball mushroom commonly found in meadows, fields, and deciduous forests worldwide usually in late summer and autumn. Most giant puffballs grow to be 10 to 70 cm in diameter, although occasionally some can reach diameters up to 150 cm and weights of 20 kg.
	Giant salamander The Giant Salamanders are aquatic amphibians found in brooks and ponds in the eastern United States, China and Japan. The Japanese Giant Salamander reaches five feet and feeds on fish and crustaceans, and can live for up to 80 years. They hunt mainly at night, and as they have poor eyesight, use sensory nodes on their head and body to detect minute changes in water pressure, allowing them to detect their prey.
	Giant Schnauzer The Giant Schnauzer is a large, powerful, compact dog breed of dog. It is one of several Schnauzer breeds. Like most large breeds, the Giant Schnauzer needs a fair amount of exercise.
	Giant squid Giant squid, once believed to be mythical creatures, are squid of the Architeuthidae family, represented by as many as eight species of the genus Architeuthis. They are deep-ocean dwelling animals that can grow to a Deep-sea gigantism: recent estimates put the maximum size at 10 meters for males and 13 meters for females from caudal fin to the tip of the two long tentacles.
	Giant tortoise Giant tortoises are characteristic of certain reptilian tropical island wildlife. They occur in such places as Madagascar, the Seychelles, Mauritius, Runion, the Galpagos Islands, Sulawesi, Timor, Flores and Java, often reaching enormous size. However, giant tortoises also once lived on the mainland of Asia, as follows from fossil finds in the Siwalik Hills in India.
	Giant water bug Giant water bugs are members of the family Belostomatidae within the order Hemiptera, colloquially known as toe-biters. They occur worldwide, with most of the species in North America, South America and East Asia. They are typically encountered in freshwater streams and ponds.
	Giantess A giantess is a female giant. The word has at least three interpretations: * A Giant resembling a woman of superhuman size and strength. * A human woman of exceptional stature, often the result of some medical or genetic abnormality. A typical example was Jane Bunford who grew to a height of 7 ft 7 in.
	Gibberellin Gibberellins are plant growth substance involved in promotion of stem elongation, mobilisation of food reserves in seeds and other Biological process. Its absence results in the dwarfism of some plant varieties. Chemically all known gibberellins are gibberellic acids, a family of terpenoid acids that are synthesized by the terpenoid pathway in plastids and then modified in the endoplasmic reticulum and cytosol until they reach their biologically-active form
	Gibbet Gibbet is a term applied to several different devices used in the capital punishment of Crimes and/or the deterrence of potential criminals. When used as a verb, gibbeting refers to the public display of executed criminals.
	Gibbon Gibbons are the small apes that are grouped in the family Hylobatidae. The family is divided into four genera based on their diploid chromosome number: Hylobates, Hoolock, Nomascus, and Symphalangus. called the lesser apes, gibbons differ from great apes in being smaller, pair-bonded, in not making nests, and in certain anatomical details in which they superficially more closely resemble monkeys than the great apes do.
	Gibraltar Gibraltar is a British overseas territories. It is located on the south of the Iberian Peninsula, overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar which links the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The territory shares a land border with Spain to the North.
	Gibs In computer games, gibs , short for giblets, or fowl innards, are the little bits of internal organs, flesh, and bone, generally smaller than entire limbs but bigger than golf balls, left when a person or creature is exploded. id Software's Adrian Carmack is credited with coining the term.
	Gibson Desert The Gibson Desert is a Western Australian desert made up of sandhills and dry grass. The desert is about 155,000 square kilometers in size. The only of the inhabitants of the area are Indigenous Australians. Wildlife includes the red kangaroo and the emu. The area was named after Alfred Gibson who perished while attempting to cross it during an expedition in 1874 with explorer Ernest Giles, who narrowly survived the same expedition.
	Gibson Girl The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal as portrayed in the satirical illustrated stories created by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson during the first 15 years of the twentieth century. The Gibson Girl was tall, slender yet with ample bosom, hips and bottom in the S-curve torso shape achieved by wearing a swan-bill corset.
	Gift A gift or present is the transfer of money, property, etc., without the direct compensation that is involved in trade, although possibly involving a social expectation of reciprocity, or a return in the form of prestige or power. In many human societies, the act of mutually exchanging gifts contributes to social cohesion.
	Gigantism Gigantism or giantism, is a condition characterized by excessive height growth. As a medical term, gigantism is rarely used except to refer to the rare condition of pituitary gigantism due to prepubertal growth hormone excess. There is no precise definition of the degree of height that qualifies a person to be termed a "giant." The term has been typically applied to those whose height is not just in the upper 1% of the population but several standard deviations above mean for persons of the same sex, age, and ethnic ancestry.
	Gila monster The Gila monster is a species of venom lizard that lives in the deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It is a heavy, slow moving lizard, up to 60 centimetre long. Its skin has the appearance of beads in the colors black, pink, orange , and yellow, laid down in intricate patterns.
	Gila River The Gila River is a tributary of the Colorado River, 630 mile long, in the southwestern United States. It rises in western New Mexico, in Sierra County, New Mexico on the western slope of continental divide in the Black Range.
	Gilbert and Ellice Islands The Gilbert and Ellice Islands were a United Kingdom protectorate from 1892 and colony from 1916 until 1 January 1976 when the islands were divided into two different colonies which became independent nations shortly after. The Gilbert Islands have been the major part of the nation of Kiribati since 1979, and the Ellice Islands became Tuvalu in 1978.
	Gilbert and Sullivan Librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan collaborated on a series of fourteen comic operas in Victorian era England between 1871 and 1896. Their works were originally produced by impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte, the third member of the partnership, who built the Savoy Theatre in London to present their operas, and formed the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which performed them until it closed in 1982.
	Gilbert Stuart Gilbert Charles Stuart was an United States painter. Born in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, he grew up in Newport, Rhode Island and was tutored by Cosmo Alexander, a Scotland painter. Stuart moved to Scotland with Alexander in 1771 to finish his studies.
	Gilding Gilding is the art of spreading gold, either by mechanical or by chemical means, over the surface of a body for the purpose of ornament. Cf. gold plating. The art of gilding was known to the ancient history. According to Herodotus, the Ancient Egypts were accustomed to gild wood and metals; and gilding by means of gold plates is frequently mentioned in the Old Testament.
	Gilgamesh Gilgamesh, according to the Sumerian king list, was the fifth king of Uruk , the son of Lugalbanda, ruling circa 2650 BC. Legend has it that his mother was Ninsun, a goddess. According to another document, known as the "History of Tummal", Gilgamesh, and eventually his son Urlugal, rebuilt the sanctuary of the goddess Ninlil, located in Tummal, a block of the Nippur city.
	Gill In aquatic organisms, gills are respiration organs for the extraction of oxygen from water and the excretion of carbon dioxide. Unlike many small aquatic animals, which can absorb oxygen through the entire surface of their bodies, more complex aquatic organisms have localized respiratory organs called gills specially formed to present an adequate surface area to the external environment.
	Gimbal A gimbal is a mechanical device that allows the rotation of an object in multiple dimensions. It is typically made up of two or three pairs of pivots, mounted on axes at right angles. A three-axis gimbal may allow an object mounted on it to remain in a horizontal plane regardless of the motion of its support.
	Gimlet A gimlet is a hand tool for drilling small holes, mainly in wood, without splitting. It was defined in Gwilt's Architecture as "a piece of steel of a semi-cylindrical form, hollow on one side, having a cross handle at one end and a worm or screw at the other". A gimlet is always a small tool.
	GIMP The GNU Image Manipulation Program or just GIMP is a free software Raster graphics editor. It also has some support for vector graphics. The project was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now maintained by a group of volunteers; it is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
	Gin Gin is a distilled beverage, or strong alcoholic beverage. It is made from the distillation of neutral grain spirit and juniper berries, which provide its distinctive flavor. The taste of ordinary gin is very dryness, and as such it is frequently mixed with other beverages.
	Gin and tonic A gin and tonic, is a cocktail made with gin and tonic water, usually garnished with a slice of Lime or lemon and served over ice. The ratio of gin to tonic varies from equal amounts to one part gin for every three parts tonic.
	Ginger Ginger root is used extensively as a spice in many if not all cuisines of the world. Though called a root, it is actually the rhizome of the monocotyledon perennial plant plant Zingiber officinale. Originating in southern China, cultivation of ginger spread to India, Southeast Asia, West Africa, and the Caribbean.
	Ginger Rogers Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, singer and dancer. In a film career spanning thirty-five years she made a total of seventy-three films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre.
	Ginger Snaps Ginger Snaps is a 2000 in film Canada horror film directed by John Fawcett about two close teenage sisters, who are Fascination with death. The title is a pun. A ginger snap is a popular type of cookie. However, the word "snap" could also be seen in the context to mean either to lose one's self-control or the quick, aggressive bite of a dog.
	Gingerbread Gingerbread is a sweet that can take the form of a cake or a cookie in which the predominant flavor is ginger root. As a cookie, gingerbread can be made into a thin, crisp cookie or a softer cookie similar to the Germany Lebkuchen. Gingerbread cookies are often cut into shapes, particularly gingerbread man.
	Gingerol Gingerol, or sometimes [6]-gingerol, is the active constituent of fresh ginger. Chemically, gingerol is a relative of capsaicin, the compound that gives chile peppers their spiciness. It is normally found as a pungent yellow oil, but also can form a low-melting crystalline solid.
	Gingham Gingham is a Cloth made from dyed cotton yarn. The name is Indonesian in origin, coming into the Dutch language. When originally imported, it was a striped fabric, but from the mid 18th century, when it was being produced in the mills of Manchester, it had become woven into checked or plaid patterns.
	Gingiva The gingiva, or gums, consists of the mucosal tissue that lays over the jaw. The gingiva are naturally transparent; they are rendered red in color because of the blood flowing through them. The gingiva are connected to the teeth and bone by way of the periodontal fibers.
	Ginkgo The Ginkgo , frequently misspelled as "Gingko", and sometimes known as the Maidenhair Tree, is a unique tree with no close living relatives. It is classified in its own division, the Ginkgophyta, comprising the single class Ginkgoopsida, order Ginkgoales, family Ginkgoaceae, genus Ginkgo and just the one species.
	Ginsberg Ginsberg is a surname, possibly referring to: * Allen Ginsberg, a Beat poet * Asher Ginsberg(Achad ha'am), a Zionist writer, Zionism philosopher * Benjamin Ginsberg * Benjamin Ginsberg, politician * Louis Ginsberg * Louis Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg's father, also a poet
	Ginseng Panax is a genus of about five or six species of slow-growing perennial plants with fleshy roots, in the family Araliaceae. They grow in the Northern Hemisphere in eastern Asia and North America, typically in cooler climates; Panax vietnamensis, discovered in Vietnam, is the southernmost ginseng found.
	Giordano Bruno Giordano Bruno was an Italy philosopher, priest, astronomer/astrologer, and occultist. Bruno is perhaps best known for his system of mnemonics and as an early proponent of the idea of extrasolar planets and extraterrestrial life. Execution by burning as a heresy for his theological ideas, Bruno is seen by some as a martyr to the cause of freedom of thought.
	Giorgio de Chirico Giorgio de Chirico often known as Npo, was an influential Surrealism Greek-Italian painter born in Volos, Greece to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement.
	Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari was an Italy painter and architect, known for his famous biography of Italian artists.
	Giosuč Carducci Giosu Carducci was an Italian poet, one of Italy's greatest, and a teacher. He was very influential and was regarded as the unofficial national poet of modern Italy. He was born in Val di Castello, a small town in the northwest corner of Tuscany near Pisa. His father, a doctor, was an advocate of the unification of Italy.
	Giotto di Bondone Giotto di Bondone, better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to and developed the Italian Renaissance. Giotto was born in poverty in the countryside near Florence, the son of Bondone, a peasant, and was himself a shepherd.
	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo was an Italian painter, considered among the last "Grand Manner" fresco painters from the Republic of Venice.
	Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italy author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanism in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poetry in the vernacular.
	Giovanni da Verrazano Giovanni da Verrazano was an Italy explorer of North America, in the service of the France crown. He is renowned as the European discoverer of many features of the Atlantic Ocean coast of the United States and Canada, including New York Harbor, where the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is named in his honor.
	Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italy composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous 16th century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina had a vast influence on the development of Roman Catholic Church church music, and his work can be seen as a summation of Renaissance polyphony.
	Giraffe The Giraffe is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest of all land-living animal species. Males can be 4.8 to 5.5 metres tall and weigh up to 1,360 kilograms . The record-sized bull was 5.87 m tall and weighed approximately 2,000 kg . Females are generally slightly shorter and weigh less.
	Girandole Girandole is an ornamental branched candlestick or lighting device often composed of several lights. It came into use about the second half of the 17th century, and was commonly made and used in pairs. It has always been, comparatively speaking, a luxurious appliance for lighting, and in the great 18th century period of French house decoration, the famous ciseleurs designed some exceedingly beautiful examples.
	Girdle The word girdle originally meant a belt. In modern English the term "girdle" is most commonly used for a form of women's underwear that replaced the corset in popularity. Historically and in anthropology, the girdle can be a scanty belt-shaped textile for men and/or women, worn on its own, not holding a larger garment in place, and even less revealing than the loin-cloth, as was used by Minoan pugilists.
	Giriama The Giriama, or Giriama, are one of the nine ethnic groups that make up the Mijikenda. The Mijikenda occupy the coastal strip extending from Lamu in the north to the Kenya/Tanzania border in the south, and approximately 30 km inland. The Giriama are among the largest of these ethnic groups.
	Girl A girl is a young female human, as opposed to a boy, a young male human. The age at which a female person transitions from girl to woman varies in different society; typically the transition from adolescence to maturity is taken to occur in the late Adolescences.
	Girlfriends Girlfriends is a popular United States situation comedy centered on the lives of four successful African American women living in Los Angeles, California. The show premiered in September 2000 on UPN and will begin its seventh season on The CW beginning October 1 2006.
	Girolamo Savonarola Girolamo Savonarola , also translated as Jerome Savonarola or Hieronymus Savonarola, was an Italian Dominican Order priest and leader of Florence from 1494 until his execution in 1498. He was known for religious reformation, anti-Renaissance preaching, book burning, and destruction of art.
	Gish Gish is The Smashing Pumpkins' debut release. The album was named after silent movie actor Lillian Gish. In an interview with Billy Corgan he once said "My grandmother used to tell me that one of the biggest things that ever happened was when Lillian Gish rode through town on a train, my grandmother lived in the middle of nowhere, so that was a big deal."
	Giuseppe Garibaldi Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italy patriot and soldier of the Italian unification. He personally led many of the military campaigns that brought about the formation of a unified Italy. He was called the "Hero of the Two Worlds", in tribute to his military expeditions in South America and Europe.
	Giuseppe Mazzini Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italy patriot, philosopher and politician. Mazzini's efforts helped bring about the modern Italian state in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the nineteenth century. He also helped define the modern European movement for popular Democracy in a Republic State.
	Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian composer, mainly of opera. He was the most influential composer of the 19th century Italian opera. His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and, transcending the boundaries of the genre, some of his themes have long since taken root in popular culture - such as "La donna mobile" from Rigoletto and "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from La traviata.
	Give Up Give Up is The Postal Service's critically acclaimed debut album. The album was released on February 18, 2003 on Sub Pop Records. The album is the second album release under the Sub Pop label to receive a RIAA certification record status, the first being Nirvana's Bleach.
	Giza Giza is a town in Egypt on the west bank of the Nile river, some 20 km southwest of central Cairo and now part of the greater Cairo metropolis. It is the capital of the Al Jizah Governorate, and is located in the northeast of this governorate, near its border. Giza is most famous as the location of the Giza Plateau: the site of some of the most impressive ancient monuments in the world, including a complex of Ancient Egypt royal mortuary and sacred structures, including the Great Sphinx, the Great Pyramid of Giza
	Gizzard The gizzard is an adapted stomach that is found in birds, earthworms, and other animals. It has a thick, muscular wall, enabling powerful grinding action. Some animals that lack teeth will swallow stones to aid in digestion. Birds employ this mode of 'mastication'. "A bird swallows small bits of gravel that act as 'teeth' in the gizzard, breaking down hard food such as seeds and thus helping digestion.".
	Glacier A glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity. A glacier is formed by multi-year ice Accretion in slope topography. Glacier ice is the largest reservoir of fresh water on Earth, and second only to oceans as the largest reservoir of total water.
	Gladiator Gladiators were professional fighters in ancient Rome who fought against each other, wild animals, and condemned criminals, sometimes to the death, for the entertainment of spectators. These fights took place in arenas in many cities during the Roman republic and the Roman Empire.
	Gladiators Gladiators was a game show produced by London Weekend Television for ITV in the United Kingdom from 10 October 1992 to 1 January 2000, an adaptation of the United States game show American Gladiators, which had developed a cult following in the UK through its night-time TV showings, as well as an Australian spin-off.
	Gladiolus Gladiolus, sometimes called the sword lily, is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family. The genus Gladiolus contains about 260 species, of which 250 are native to sub-Saharan Africa, mostly South Africa. About 10 species are native to Eurasia. There are 160 species of Gladiolus endemic in southern Africa and 76 in tropical Africa.
	Glans penis The glans penis is the sensitive erectile tip of the penis. It is also commonly referred to as the head of the penis, although this is not the proper medical terminology. It is wholly or partially covered by the foreskin, except when the foreskin is retracted, such as during sexual intercourse or masturbation while the penis is erection, or when the foreskin has been removed by circumcision.
	Glasgow The city was formerly a royal burgh, and was known as the "Second city of the British Empire" in the Victorian era. It established itself as a major transatlantic trading port during the Industrial Revolution. The Clyde was the world's pre-eminent shipbuilding centre , building many revolutionary and famous vessels such as the Cunard Line liners RMS RMS Lusitania, RMS RMS Aquitania, RMS RMS Queen Mary, RMS RMS Queen Elizabeth
	Glass Glass is a uniform amorphous solid material, usually produced when the viscous molten material cools very rapidly to below its glass transition temperature, without sufficient time for a regular crystal lattice to form. The most familiar form of glass is the silica-based material used for windows, containers and decorative objects.
	Glass lizard The Glass Lizards or glass snakes, genus Ophisaurus, are a group of reptiles that resemble snakes, but are actually lizards. Although most species have no legs, their head shape and the fact that they have movable eyelids and external ear openings make it obvious that they are lizards.