8-letter words containing a, g, r, i, o
- girasole — an opal that reflects light in a bright luminous glow.
- girasols — Plural form of girasol.
- gloriosa — any plant of the bulbous tropical African genus Gloriosa, some species of which are grown as ornamental greenhouse climbers for their showy flowers of yellow, orange, and red: family Liliaceae
- go viral — If a video, image, or story goes viral, it spreads quickly and widely on the Internet through social media and e-mail.
- go-train — a lightweight passenger train providing rapid surface transport between a city center and the suburbs and from suburb to suburb.
- godavari — a river flowing SE from W India to the Bay of Bengal. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- gorillas — Plural form of gorilla.
- 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.
- 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.
- grazioso — graceful; flowing.
- groaning — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- gyration — the act of gyrating; circular or spiral motion; revolution; rotation; whirling.
- gyroidal — having a spiral arrangement.
- 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.
- 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.
- ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- iron age — the period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron.
- isegoria — Equality of all in freedom of speech.
- isograft — syngraft.
- isograms — Plural form of isogram.
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- kilogram — a unit of mass equal to 1000 grams: the basic unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder kept in Sèvres, France. Abbreviation: kg.
- kilogray — one thousand grays
- koftgari — the art of inlaying steel with gold
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- maggiore — Lake, a lake in N Italy and S Switzerland. 83 sq. mi. (215 sq. km).
- majoring — a commissioned military officer ranking next below a lieutenant colonel and next above a captain.
- marigold — any of several chiefly golden-flowered composite plants, especially of the genus Tagetes, as T. erecta, having strong-scented foliage and yielding an oil that repels root parasites.
- migrator — (computing) A computer program that helps move objects between locations, e.g. from a legacy system to a new technology.
- morgagni — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1682–1771, Italian anatomist.
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- oliguria — scantiness of urine due to diminished secretion.
- oracling — Present participle of oracle.
- oragious — stormy or tempestuous
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- organdie — a fine, thin cotton fabric usually having a durable crisp finish, white, dyed, or printed: used for blouses, dresses, curtains, trimmings, etc.
- organics — Plural form of organic.
- organise — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- organism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- organist — a person who plays the organ.
- organize — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- organoid — Resembling an organ of the body.