| Game Boy |
a brand name for any of several handheld game consoles manufactured by Nintendo beginning in 1989. |
| gamecock |
a rooster trained and often bred for fighting. |
| gamefish |
any fish that is commonly caught for sport. |
| gamekeeper |
a person employed to breed and protect game birds and other wildlife on private grounds or on a game preserve. |
| game law |
a law regulating hunting and fishing, enacted to preserve game. |
| game plan |
a strategy or course of action planned before a game of sport, esp. football. [2 definitions] |
| game point |
the stage in a game, esp. in a racket sport, when the next point scored will be the last and deciding one. [2 definitions] |
| game show |
a television show in which participants play various games of chance, skill, or memory in order to win prizes. |
| gamesmanship |
the art or act of using questionable, though legal, tactics to win at games or contests. |
| gamesome |
having or showing a desire to play; frisky; frolicsome. |
| gamester |
one who habitually gambles. |
| gamete |
a mature reproductive cell, such as an egg or sperm, that is capable of uniting with another cell to form a new organism. |
| game theory |
mathematical analysis of strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses, applied to games of strategic competition and to corporate, military, and other decision-making problems. |
| gameto- |
gamete or reproductive cell. |
| gametocyte |
a cell that divides to produce gametes. |
| gametophore |
a plant part that produces gametes. |
| gametophyte |
the sexual, gamete-bearing form of a plant that undergoes the alternation of generations. (Cf. sporophyte.) |
| gamin |
an unsupervised or homeless boy who wanders about in the streets; urchin. |
| gaming |
the practice of gambling; playing of games of chance. [2 definitions] |
| gamma |
the name of the third letter of the Greek alphabet. |
| gamma globulin |
a protein in blood serum that contains antibodies used in the prevention of a number of infectious diseases, such as measles and hepatitis. |