9-letter words containing a, g, r, n
- garnishor — (legal) A person who garnishes; one who obtains a garnishment against another.
- garnishry — an adornment or decoration
- garniture — something that garnishes; decoration; adornment.
- garotting — to execute by the garrote.
- garrisons — Plural form of garrison.
- garroting — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- gartering — Present participle of garter.
- gas range — a cooking stove that uses household gas as fuel.
- gathering — a drawing together; contraction.
- gaurantee — Misspelling of guarantee.
- gear down — 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.
- gear knob — a gear lever
- gendarmes — Plural form of gendarme.
- generable — capable of being generated or produced.
- generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.
- generalia — generalities
- generally — usually; commonly; ordinarily: He generally comes home at noon.
- generated — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- generates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of generate.
- generator — a machine that converts one form of energy into another, especially mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
- generical — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- genicular — of or relating to the knee
- geocorona — a belt of ionized hydrogen surrounding the earth at the outer limit of the exosphere.
- geomancer — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- georgiana — a female given name.
- geraldine — a female given name: derived from Gerald.
- geraldton — a seaport in W Australia.
- geraniums — Plural form of geranium.
- gerfalcon — gyrfalcon.
- germanate — (inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion GeO44- derived from germanium; any salt containing this ion.
- germander — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Teucrium, of the mint family, as T. chamaedrys, of Europe, and T. canadense, of eastern North America.
- germanely — In a manner that is germane, relevantly.
- germanide — (chemistry) any binary compound of germanium and a more electropositive element.
- germanism — a usage, idiom, or other feature that is characteristic of the German language.
- germanist — a specialist in the study of German culture, literature, or linguistics.
- germanite — a mineral consisting of a complex copper arsenic sulphide containing germanium, gallium, iron, zinc, and lead: an ore of germanium and gallium
- germanium — a scarce, metallic, grayish-white element, normally tetravalent, used chiefly in transistors. Symbol: Ge; atomic weight: 72.59; atomic number: 32; specific gravity: 5.36 at 20°C.
- germanize — to adopt or cause to adopt German customs, speech, institutions, etc
- germanous — containing bivalent germanium.
- germinals — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the seventh month of the year, extending from March 21 to April 19.
- germinant — beginning to grow or develop; germinating.
- germinate — to begin to grow or develop.
- gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
- gerundial — (in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”. See also gerundive (def 1).
- gesneriad — any of various, chiefly tropical plants of the gesneria family.
- ginastera — Alberto [ahl-ber-taw] /ɑlˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1916–83, Argentine composer.
- giraffine — relating to the giraffe
- girandole — a rotating and radiating firework.
- girl band — A girl band is a band consisting of young women who sing pop music and dance.