English words starting with gal

Meanings of Gal:

noun

A girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

Pedal pushers and prom queens, floral corsages and full skirts, gingham checks and clinched waists …

abbreviation

Gallon(s).

Meanings of Gala:

noun

A social occasion with special entertainments or performances.

Usage examples:

A gala performance by the royal ballet

Meanings of Galactan:

noun

Any of a class of polysaccharides which are composed of a chain of galactose residues, and which yield galactose on hydrolysis.

Meanings of Galactase:

noun

A proteolytic enzyme present in milk.

Meanings of Galactic:

adjective

Relating to a galaxy or galaxies, especially the galaxy containing the solar system.

Usage examples:

The search for a black hole at the galactic centre

Meanings of Galactin:

noun

Prolactin.

Meanings of Galactophore:

noun

A milk duct in the mammary gland; specifically one of the larger ducts emptying into the nipple or teat.

Meanings of Galactopoiesis:

noun

The production of milk by the mammary gland; specifically the maintenance of milk secretion after its initiation.

Meanings of Galactorrhea:

noun

Excessive or inappropriate production of milk.

Usage examples:

Thyroid stimulating hormone, testosterone, and prolactin concentrations need be checked only if cyc…

Meanings of Galactorrhoea:

noun

Excessive or inappropriate production of milk.

Usage examples:

Thyroid stimulating hormone, testosterone, and prolactin concentrations need be checked only if cyc…

Meanings of Galactosamine:

noun

A crystalline amino sugar, of which chondroitin is a derivative.

Usage examples:

Protective effects of phytosomal silybin were observed using rats pre-exposed to toxins such as pra…

Meanings of Galactose:

noun

A sugar of the hexose class which is a constituent of lactose and many polysaccharides.

Usage examples:

Its molecule is split in fermentation or digestion to yield the simple monosaccharide sugars dextro…

Meanings of Galactosemic:

adjective

Of, relating to or characteristic of galactosaemia; affected with galactosaemia.

noun

A person with galactosaemia.

Meanings of Galagos:

noun

Another term for bushbaby.

Meanings of Galahads:

proper noun

The noblest of king arthur's legendary knights; renowned for immaculate purity and destined to find the holy grail.

noun

A person characterized by nobility, integrity, or courtesy.

Usage examples:

The wise guys and sir galahads, they don't last

Meanings of Galahs:

noun

A small australian cockatoo with a grey back and rosy pink head and underparts.

Usage examples:

You can attract birds like eastern rosellas, king parrots, galahs and lorikeets to your garden.

Meanings of Galanga:

noun

Galangal.

Meanings of Galangin:

noun

A pale yellow, crystalline, flavonoid compound,originally isolated from the root of the galingale alpinia officinarum.

Meanings of Galant:

adjective

Relating to or denoting a light and elegant style of 18th-century music.

Usage examples:

What made him the leading composer of the period, and what led the leipzig town council to seek him…

Meanings of Galapee:

noun

Either of two jamaican trees of the family araliaceae, schefflera sciadophyllum and dendropanax arboreus.

Meanings of Galatea:

proper noun

A sea nymph courted by the cyclops polyphemus, who in jealousy killed his rival acis.

Meanings of Galax:

noun

A plant of or formerly included in the genus galax (now of the family diapensiaceae); specifically g. urceolata (formerly g. aphylla), now the only member of the genus, a low-growing, evergreen herbaceous plant native to the south-eastern united states, having shiny, heart-shaped leaves much used in floristry, and racemes of small white flowers. also (in form galax): the genus itself.

Meanings of Galaxes:

noun

A plant of or formerly included in the genus galax (now of the family diapensiaceae); specifically g. urceolata (formerly g. aphylla), now the only member of the genus, a low-growing, evergreen herbaceous plant native to the south-eastern united states, having shiny, heart-shaped leaves much used in floristry, and racemes of small white flowers. also (in form galax): the genus itself.

Meanings of Galaxy:

noun

A system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction.

Usage examples:

There are reckoned to be about 400 billion stars in our galaxy, the milky way.

Meanings of Gale:

noun

A very strong wind.

Usage examples:

I slept well despite the howling gales outside