6-letter words containing a, g, r
- gocart — Alternative form of go-cart (framework for children learning to walk).
- godard — Benjamin Louis Paul [bahn-zha-man lwee pawl] /bɑ̃ ʒaˈmɛ̃ lwi pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1849–95, French violinist and composer.
- gondar — a former kingdom in E Africa: now a province in NW Ethiopia. Capital: Gondar.
- gopura — A monumental tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a temple, especially in Southern India.
- gorgas — William Crawford, 1854–1920, U.S. physician and epidemiologist: chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal 1904–13; surgeon general of the U.S. Army 1914–18.
- gorgia — an improvised sung passage of music
- gorham — a town in SW Maine.
- goslar — a city in N central Germany, in Lower Saxony: imperial palace and other medieval buildings, silver mines. Pop: 43 727 (2003 est)
- grabby — tending to grab or grasp for gain; greedy: a grabby ticket scalper.
- graben — a portion of the earth's crust, bounded on at least two sides by faults, that has dropped downward in relation to adjacent portions.
- graced — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- graces — William Russell, 1832–1904, U.S. financier and shipping magnate, born in Ireland: mayor of New York City 1880–88.
- graded — Simple past tense and past participle of grade.
- gradee — One who receives a grade.
- grader — a person or thing that grades.
- grades — Plural form of grade.
- gradin — one of a series of steps or seats raised one above another.
- gradus — a work consisting wholly or in part of exercises of increasing difficulty.
- graeae — three aged sea deities, having only one eye and one tooth among them, guardians of their sisters, the Gorgons
- grafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of graft.
- grager — a noise-making device, typically a small container filled with pellets and fitted with a handle, used by children each time Haman's name is said during the traditional reading of the Book of Esther on Purim.
- graham — made of graham flour.
- graiae — Graeae
- grails — Plural form of grail.
- graine — the eggs of the silkworm
- grains — a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- grainy — resembling grain; granular.
- graith — equipment; apparatus; belongings
- grames — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grame.
- gramma — One's grandmother.
- gramme — a metric unit of mass or weight equal to 15.432 grains; one thousandth of a kilogram. Abbreviation: g.
- grammy — one of a group of statuettes awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievement in various categories in the recording industry.
- grampa — grandfather.
- gramps — grandfather.
- grampy — (informal, childish) grandfather.
- granby — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- grand- — (in designations of kinship) one generation removed in ascent or descent
- granda — (informal) (Scots, Northern England) grandfather.
- grande — a town in NE Oregon.
- grange — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
- grani- — indicating grain
- granit — Ragnar Arthur [Swedish rahng-nahr ahr-too r] /Swedish ˈrɑŋ nɑr ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1900–1991, Swedish physiologist, born in Finland: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1967.
- granny — Informal. a grandmother.
- grano- — of or resembling granite
- granta — Cam.
- granth — the sacred scripture of the Sikhs, original text compiled 1604.
- grants — Cary (Archibald Leach) 1904–86, U.S. actor, born in England.
- granum — (in prescriptions) a grain.
- grapes — the edible, pulpy, smooth-skinned berry or fruit that grows in clusters on vines of the genus Vitis, and from which wine is made.
- grapey — of, like, or composed of grapes.