Favorite rare words, G-I

Logolatry

Gabbart -- barge.

Gabelle -- a salt tax.

Galeanthropy -- pathological belief that one is a cat.

Galilee -- porch in front of a church.

Gamomania -- obsession with making odd marriage proposals.

Gat -- opening of strait between two sandbars.

Gelasin -- dimple in the cheek that appears when one smiles.

Gewgaw, geegaw -- toy, trifling object, bauble. (bauble is already an interesting word.)

Gibbet -- gallows.

Gleet -- mucus discharge from the urethra.

Gnomon -- upright rod of a sundial.

Gomphiasis -- looseness of the teeth.

Gradgrind -- one who regulates things by means of statistics.

Grallatory -- relating to wading birds.

Greaves -- tallow waste.

Gudgeon -- metal pin or bearing for connecting rudder to boat; separately, a person easily cheated.

Gymnosophy -- deep contemplation perfomed while naked.

Gynotikolobomasophile -- one who nibbles on women's earlobes.

Gyromancy -- divination initiated by falling from dizziness.

Hadal -- part of the ocean below 6000 meters.

Halophilous -- tolerant of salt or salt water.

Hamartia -- flaw in a character leading to his downfall.

Harridan -- sharp-tongued, scolding woman.

Hemeralopia -- day blindness, vision requiring dim light.

Hod -- V-shaped trough for carrying bricks or mortar on the shoulders.

Hylozoism -- doctrine that all matter is endowed with life.

Hyperbaton -- rhetorical device in which word order is reversed.

Hyperborean -- inhabitant of the extreme north.

Hypostrophe -- return to primary argument after a digression.

Iatramelia -- medical negligence.

Idioglossia -- private language developed between children.

Ilicic -- of or pertaining to holly.

Imago -- idealized mental image of a person.

Impanate -- embodied in bread.

Inquisiturient -- eager to act as an inquisitor.

Insulse -- lacking wit, dull, insipid.

Interamnian -- between two rivers.

Interfluve -- area between two rivers that flow in the same direction.

Intertrigo -- skin rash due to friction between two moist surfaces (time to diet!).

Iridian -- having or suggesting the colors of a rainbow.

Irroration -- watering a plant with discharge of a sick person ( this is so common that we need a word for it?).

Ismatic -- addicted to "isms" or faddish theories.

Ixiodic -- of or pertaining to ticks.

Time again to note that these are selected from Steve Chrisomalis's wonderful Forthright's Phrontistery site.