8-letter words containing a, g, o, r
- gondomar — Diego Sarmiento de Acuña [dye-gaw sahr-myen-taw th e ah-koo-nyah] /ˈdyɛ gɔ sɑrˈmyɛn tɔ ðɛ ɑˈku nyɑ/ (Show IPA), Count of, 1567–1626, Spanish diplomat.
- goodyear — Charles, 1800–60, U.S. inventor: developer of the process of vulcanizing rubber.
- gopurams — Plural form of gopuram.
- gorillas — Plural form of gorilla.
- gorlovka — a city in SE Ukraine, N of Donetsk.
- gospodar — a hospodar; a master
- gossaert — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), Mabuse, Jan.
- gossamer — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
- gourmand — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- gracioso — a buffoon or clown in Spanish comedy.
- gracious — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- graffito — Archaeology. an ancient drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface.
- gralloch — the entrails of a deer
- granados — Enrique [en-ree-ke] /ɛnˈri kɛ/ (Show IPA), 1867–1916, Spanish pianist and composer.
- granddog — (humorous) A dog owned by the children of someone old enough to be a grandparent; a dog that has a similar role to a grandchild.
- grandmom — (US) Grandmother.
- grandpop — (US, informal) grandfather.
- grandson — a son of one's son or daughter.
- grantors — Plural form of grantor.
- gratious — Obsolete form of gracious.
- grattoir — a flaked stone implement, usually Upper Paleolithic, retouched at the end and used probably for working wood or cleaning hides; scraper.
- graviton — the theoretical quantum of gravitation, usually assumed to be an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of two.
- gray fox — a fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, ranging from Central America through the southwestern and eastern U.S., having blackish-gray upper parts and rusty-yellowish feet, legs, and ears.
- grazioso — graceful; flowing.
- great go — great (def 20).
- great on — enthusiastic about
- groaners — Plural form of groaner.
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- groaning — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- grosbeak — any of various finches having a thick, conical bill.
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- grow bag — a plastic bag containing a sufficient amount of a sterile growing medium and nutrients to enable a plant, such as a tomato or pepper, to be grown to full size in it, usually for one season only
- grow fat — If you say that a person or organization has grown fat on something, you mean that they have become very rich as a result of it.
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- guacharo — a nocturnal, fruit-eating, South American bird, Steatornis caripensis, the young of which yield an oil derived from their fat.
- guarddog — a dog that guards a property or person
- gyration — the act of gyrating; circular or spiral motion; revolution; rotation; whirling.
- gyratory — moving in a circle or spiral; gyrating.
- gyroidal — having a spiral arrangement.
- gyrostat — a modified gyroscope, consisting of a rotating wheel pivoted within a rigid case.
- hangover — the disagreeable physical aftereffects of drunkenness, such as a headache or stomach disorder, usually felt several hours after cessation of drinking.
- harpagon — (obsolete) a grappling hook.
- hemogram — a graphic record of the cellular elements of the blood.
- highroad — Chiefly British. a main road; highway.
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
- hologram — a negative produced by exposing a high-resolution photographic plate, without camera or lens, near a subject illuminated by monochromatic, coherent radiation, as from a laser: when it is placed in a beam of coherent light a true three-dimensional image of the subject is formed.
- ideogram — a written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.
- idiogram — Karyogram.