Gemütlichkeit (de)

comfort, coziness (like the Danish hygge)

gendarmes (en)

(noun) a member of a body of soldiers especially in France serving as an armed police force for the maintenance of public order / (noun) police officer

Geneva School (en)

(1) a group of linguists based in Geneva who pioneered modern structural linguistics, incl Saussure; and (2) a group of literary theorists and critics working from a phenomenological perspective, incl Poulet

genitive (en)

(adjective) of, relating to, or constituting a grammatical case marking typically a relationship of possessor or source / (adjective) expressing a relationship that in some inflected languages is often marked by a genitive case / (noun) a syntactic construction in English in which possession is marked both by the preposition of and a noun or pronoun in the possessive case (as in “A friend of Bob's is a friend of mine”)

genitrix (en)

(noun) the biological mother of a child

gentrification (en)

(noun) the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents

genuflect (en)

to bend the knee; to be humbly obedient or respectful

Georges Perec (en)

a French experimental novelist; many of his works deal with absence, loss, and identity, often through word play

gerontocratic (en)

(noun) rule by elders / (noun) a form of social organization in which a group of old men or a council of elders dominates or exercises control

gestalt (en)

form or shape

giallo (it)

Italian slasher/horror film

gibbering (en)

speak rapidly and unintelligibly, typically through fear or shock

Gilles Deleuze (en)

1925–1995: French philosopher (has influenced literary theory, post-structuralism and postmodernism)

glabrous (en)

(adjective) smooth / (adjective) having a surface without hairs or projections

glacis (en)

a bank sloping down from a fort which exposes attackers to the defenders' missiles

glasnost (en)

the Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues; instituted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s, beginning the democratization of the Soviet Union

glissando (en)

(noun) a rapid sliding up or down the musical scale

gloaming (en)

(noun) twilight; dusk

gneiss (en)

(noun) a foliated metamorphic rock corresponding in composition to a feldspathic plutonic rock (as granite)

gnomic (en)

expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms

gnosis (en)

(noun) esoteric knowledge of spiritual truth held by the ancient Gnostics to be essential to salvation

gofer (en)

(noun) an employee whose duties include running errands; lackey

Gorgon (en)

(noun) any of three snake-haired sisters in Greek mythology whose appearance turns the beholder to stone / (noun) an ugly or repulsive woman

gorse (en)

(noun) a spiny yellow-flowered European shrub (Ulex europaeus) of the legume family / (noun) any of several related plants (genera Ulex and Genista)

Gosplan (en)

The State Planning Committee (Gosplan) was the agency responsible for central economic planning (particularly five-year plans) in the Soviet Union