9-letter words containing a, p, r, e
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- game park — a game preserve, especially in Africa.
- gang rape — If a woman is gang raped, several men force her to have sex with them.
- gang-rape — to force to have sexual intercourse with several persons.
- gas poker — a long tubular gas burner used to kindle a fire
- gaspergou — freshwater drum.
- gather up — collect
- gay power — the organized political influence exerted by homosexuals as a group, especially to ensure equal rights in employment, housing, etc.
- gear pump — lobular pump.
- geocarpic — pertaining to geocarpy
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- germplasm — Alternative spelling of germ plasm.
- glory-pea — either of two trailing plants, Clianthus formosus or C. puniceus, of Australia and New Zealand, having showy red flowers.
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- grab rope — a rope supported to afford a hold for a person walking up a gangplank, working aloft, etc.
- grace cup — a cup, as of wine, passed around at the end of the meal for the final health or toast.
- grand pre — a village in central Nova Scotia, on Minas Basin: locale of Longfellow's Evangeline.
- grape ivy — a hairy vine, Cissus rhombifolia, native to tropical America, having glossy trifoliate leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- grapelice — lice that are destructive to grape plants
- grapelike — Resembling a grape or some aspect of grapes.
- grapeline — grapnel.
- grapeseed — The seed of the grape.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- grapetree — any of various plants of the genus Coccoloba, esp C. uvifera, a shrubby plant resembling a grapevine
- grapevine — a town in N Texas.
- graphemes — Plural form of grapheme.
- graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
- graphited — Modified by the addition of graphite.
- grapiness — the quality of tasting like a grape
- grappelli — Stéphane (ˈstɛfən) 1908–97, French jazz violinist: with Django Reinhardt, he led the Quintet of the Hot Club of France between 1934 and 1939
- grapplers — Plural form of grappler.
- graspable — to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
- graspless — (of a person's hand) having no grasp, and hence loose, relaxed, etc
- gray pine — jack pine.
- great ape — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- greenspan — Alan, born 1926, U.S. economist: chairman of the Federal Reserve Board 1987–2006.
- grip tape — adhesive tape used for friction
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- groupmate — A member of the same group.
- groupware — software that allows users on a network to work together and communicate effectively: Our company uses groupware to share files, databases, calendars, and email.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- hairpiece — a toupee.
- hammerkop — A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the Scopidae family and related to the herons.
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- hampshire — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.