9-letter words containing a, g, r, i, e
- gratitude — the quality or feeling of being grateful or thankful: He expressed his gratitude to everyone on the staff.
- gravelike — resembling a grave
- graveling — small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- graveside — the area beside a grave.
- gravesite — the site of a grave or graves; a place of burial.
- gravitate — to move or tend to move under the influence of gravitational force.
- gravities — Plural form of gravity.
- gray pine — jack pine.
- greasiest — Superlative form of greasy.
- great tit — an Old World titmouse, Parus major, yellowish green above with white cheeks.
- greenmail — the practice of buying a large block of a company's stock in order to force a rise in stock prices or an offer by the company to repurchase that block of stock at an inflated price to thwart a possible takeover bid.
- gregarian — (obsolete) gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort.
- gregarine — a type of sporozoan parasite that inhabits the digestive and other cavities of various invertebrates and produces cysts filled with spores.
- gregorian — of or relating to any of the popes named Gregory, especially Gregory I or Gregory XIII.
- grenadian — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- grenadier — (in the British army) a member of the first regiment of household infantry (Grenadier Guards)
- grenadine — a syrup made from pomegranate juice.
- grevillea — An evergreen tree or shrub bearing conspicuous flowers that lack petals, most kinds of which are native to Australia.
- grid leak — a high-resistance device that permits excessive charges on the grid to leak off or escape.
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- grievants — Plural form of grievant.
- grillages — Plural form of grillage.
- grindelia — any of various composite plants of the genus Grindelia, comprising the gumweeds.
- grip tape — adhesive tape used for friction
- grisaille — monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- guerillas — Plural form of guerilla.
- guerrilla — a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
- guevarist — a supporter of the revolutionary theories and tactics of Ernesto Guevara.
- guiltware — /gilt'weir/ 1. A piece of freeware decorated with a message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money. 2. Shareware that works.
- hagridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- haltering — Present participle of halter.
- hammering — The sound or action of hammering something.
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- hang fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- harlingen — a city in S Texas.
- haughtier — Comparative form of haughty.
- head girl — The head girl of a school is the girl who is the leader of the prefects and who often represents the school on public occasions.
- headright — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.
- heartling — a term of endearment, little heart
- heliogram — a message sent by a heliograph.
- heralding — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- heritages — Plural form of heritage.
- hermitage — the habitation of a hermit.
- hierogram — a sacred symbol, as an emblem, pictograph, or the like.
- high gear — the highest gear in a car or other motor vehicle