9-letter words containing a, n, g, r, i
- granitize — to subject to granitization.
- granitoid — resembling or having the texture of granite.
- granivore — Any animal that eats seeds as the main part of its diet.
- grannyish — typical of or suitable for an elderly woman; old-fashioned
- granolith — a composition stone for pavements, made from crushed granite or the like and cement.
- granulite — a metamorphic rock composed of granular minerals of uniform size, as quartz, feldspar, or pyroxene, and showing a definite banding.
- granville — Earl of, Carteret, John.
- grapeline — grapnel.
- grapevine — a town in N Texas.
- grapiness — the quality of tasting like a grape
- grappling — a hook or an iron instrument by which one thing, as a ship, fastens onto another; grapnel.
- gratinate — to gratiné.
- gratineed — to bake or broil (food) in au gratin style.
- gratingly — irritating or unpleasant to one's feelings.
- graveling — small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- gravitino — the hypothetical fermionic partner of the graviton, predicted by the supergravity extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
- gravitons — Plural form of graviton.
- gray iron — pig iron or cast iron having much of its carbon in the form of graphite and exhibiting a gray fracture.
- gray pine — jack pine.
- graylings — Plural form of grayling.
- 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.
- 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.
- grill pan — a wide, shallow metal vessel used to contain food that is being cooked under a grill
- grimacing — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- grimalkin — a cat.
- grindelia — any of various composite plants of the genus Grindelia, comprising the gumweeds.
- grivation — grid variation.
- grosgrain — a heavy, corded ribbon or cloth of silk or rayon.
- guard pin — (in a lever escapement) a pin on the lever, meeting the safety roller in such a way as to prevent the lever from overbanking.
- guardians — Plural form of guardian.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
- gyrations — Plural form of gyration.
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- hagridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- hagriding — Present participle of hagride.
- 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.
- hamstring — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
- 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.
- hangaring — a shed or shelter.