gordimer
- n South African novelist and short-story writer whose work describes the effects of apartheid (born in 1923)
gordius
- n legendary king of ancient Phrygia who was said to be responsible for the Gordian knot
gordon howe
- n Canadian hockey player who holds the record for playing the most games (born 1928)
gore
- n Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)
- n coagulated blood from a wound
- n a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- n the shedding of blood resulting in murder
- v wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument
- v cut into gores
gore a skirt
gorgas
- n United States Army surgeon who suppressed yellow fever in Havana and in the Panama Canal Zone (1854-1920)
gorge
- n a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
- n a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
- n the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- v overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
gorgon
- n (Greek mythology) any of three winged sister monsters and the mortal Medusa who had live snakes for hair; a glance at Medusa turned the beholder to stone