7-letter words containing a, g, r, i
- gastric — pertaining to the stomach.
- gastrin — a hormone that stimulates the secretion of gastric juice.
- gaudier — Comparative form of gaudy.
- gautier — Théophile [tey-aw-feel] /teɪ ɔˈfil/ (Show IPA), 1811–72, French poet, novelist, and critic.
- gauzier — Comparative form of gauzy.
- gawkier — Comparative form of gawky.
- gayatri — a Vedic mantra expressing hope for enlightenment: recited daily by the faithful and repeated in all religious rites and ceremonies.
- gearing — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- georgia — a state in the SE United States. 58,876 sq. mi. (152,489 sq. km). Capital: Atlanta. Abbreviation: GA (for use with zip code), Ga.
- geraint — one of the knights of the Round Table, husband of Enid.
- germain — a female given name.
- germina — a germ.
- gervais — (sometimes initial capital letter) an unsalted French cream cheese made from whole milk and cream.
- gharial — gavial.
- giaever — Ivar [ee-vahr] /ˈi vɑr/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. physicist, born in Norway: Nobel Prize 1973.
- giantry — giants as a group
- giaours — Plural form of giaour.
- giardia — any flagellate of the genus Giardia, parasitic in the intestines of vertebrates.
- gillard — Julia (Eileen). born 1961. Australian Labor politician, born in Wales: Deputy Prime Minister (2007–10); Prime Minister (2010-13)
- gillray — James. 1757–1815, English caricaturist
- giraffe — a tall, long-necked, spotted ruminant, Giraffa camelopardalis, of Africa: the tallest living quadruped animal.
- girasol — an opal that reflects light in a bright luminous glow.
- gisarme — a shafted weapon having as a head a curved, double-edged blade with a beak at the back.
- gizzard — Also called ventriculus. a thick-walled, muscular pouch in the lower stomach of many birds and reptiles that grinds food, often with the aid of ingested stones or grit.
- glacier — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glaires — to coat with glair.
- glairin — an organic deposit found in some mineral waters
- glaring — shining with or reflecting a harshly bright or brilliant light.
- glazier — a person who fits windows or the like with glass or panes of glass.
- gloriam — for glory.
- goliard — one of a class of wandering scholar-poets in Germany, France, and England, chiefly in the 12th and 13th centuries, noted as the authors of satirical Latin verse written in celebration of conviviality, sensual pleasures, etc.
- gordian — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
- gordita — A Mexican flatbread made from cornmeal and stuffed with meat, cheese, vegetables, or a sweet filling.
- gorgias — c483–c375 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- gorilla — the largest of the anthropoid apes, Gorilla gorilla, terrestrial and vegetarian, of western equatorial Africa and the Kivu highlands, comprising the subspecies G. g. gorilla (western lowland gorilla) G. g. graueri (eastern lowland gorilla) and G. g. beringei (mountain gorilla) now rare.
- gorizia — a city in NE Italy, on the Isonzo River, N of Trieste.
- gourami — a large, air-breathing, nest-building, freshwater Asiatic fish, Osphronemus goramy, used for food.
- gournia — a village in NE Crete, near the site of an excavated Minoan town and palace.
- gracchi — Gaius Sempronius [gey-uh s sem-proh-nee-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs sɛmˈproʊ ni əs/ (Show IPA), 153–121 b.c, and his brother, Tiberius Sempronius [tahy-beer-ee-uh s] /taɪˈbɪər i əs/ (Show IPA) 163–133 b.c., Roman reformers and orators.
- gracias — (Spanish, colloquial) thank you.
- gracile — gracefully slender.
- gracing — Present participle of grace.
- gradine — A low step or ledge, especially one at the back of an altar.
- grading — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- gradino — (architecture) A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar.
- gradins — Plural form of gradin.
- grained — having, reduced to, consisting of, or bearing grain or grains (usually used in combination): fine-grained sand; large-grained rice.
- grainer — A knife for taking the hair off skins.
- graming — Present participle of grame.
- gramsci — Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ ni oʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1937, Italian political leader and theorist: a founder of the Italian Communist Party 1921.