9-letter words containing a, r, g, i
- 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
- grappling — a hook or an iron instrument by which one thing, as a ship, fastens onto another; grapnel.
- grassbird — a type of warbler found in long grass and reed beds
- grasserie — a virus disease of silkworms, characterized by yellowness of the integument and an excessive accumulation of fluid within the body.
- grassfire — A fire burning over grass or grassland.
- grassiest — Superlative form of grassy.
- grasslike — That has the characteristics of grass.
- grassquit — any of several tiny finches, especially of the genus Tiaris, of tropical America and the West Indies.
- graticule — Navigation. a network of parallels and meridians on a map or chart.
- gratified — Obsolete. to reward; remunerate.
- gratifier — Someone who gratifies.
- gratifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gratify.
- gratinate — to gratiné.
- gratineed — to bake or broil (food) in au gratin style.
- gratingly — irritating or unpleasant to one's feelings.
- gratitude — the quality or feeling of being grateful or thankful: He expressed his gratitude to everyone on the staff.
- gravelike — resembling a grave
- graveling — small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- graveside — the area beside a grave.
- gravesite — the site of a grave or graves; a place of burial.
- gravidity — pregnant1 (def 1).
- gravitate — to move or tend to move under the influence of gravitational force.
- gravities — Plural form of gravity.
- 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.
- greasiest — Superlative form of greasy.
- great tit — an Old World titmouse, Parus major, yellowish green above with white cheeks.
- 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.
- grevillea — An evergreen tree or shrub bearing conspicuous flowers that lack petals, most kinds of which are native to Australia.
- grid bias — the potential difference applied between a grid and the cathode of a vacuum tube.
- grid leak — a high-resistance device that permits excessive charges on the grid to leak off or escape.
- grid road — a municipal road that follows a grid line established by the original survey of the area.
- 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
- grillages — Plural form of grillage.
- 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.
- grip tape — adhesive tape used for friction
- grisaille — monochromatic painting in shades of gray.