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9-letter words containing c, r, a, g

  • gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
  • gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
  • ghost car — an unmarked police car
  • gift card — gift voucher in plastic card form
  • gill arch — branchial arch.
  • gimcracks — Plural form of gimcrack.
  • glaciered — covered by, or coming from, glaciers
  • glam rock — a style of rock music of the early 1970s, characterized by the glittery flamboyance and androgynous image of its performers
  • glare ice — ice having a smooth, glassy surface that reflects sunlight.
  • gold card — A gold card is a special type of credit card that gives you extra benefits such as a higher spending limit.
  • golf cart — a small, battery-powered, three- or four-wheel vehicle used for transporting one or two golfers and their equipment around a golf course.
  • goncharov — Ivan Alexandrovich [ih-vahn al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-,, ahy-vuh n;; Russian ee-vahn uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /ɪˈvɑn ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-,, ˈaɪ vən;; Russian iˈvɑn ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1812–91, Russian novelist.
  • gorbachev — Mikhail S(ergeyevich) [mi-kahyl sur-gey-uh-vich,, mi-keyl;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel syir-gye-yi-vyich] /mɪˈkaɪl sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ,, mɪˈkeɪl;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Soviet political leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1985–91; president of the Soviet Union 1988–91; Nobel Peace Prize 1990.
  • gorchakov — Prince Aleksander Mikhailovich [al-ig-zan-der mi-hahy-luh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahndr myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər mɪˈhaɪ lə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑndr myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1798–1883, Russian diplomat and statesman.
  • grace cup — a cup, as of wine, passed around at the end of the meal for the final health or toast.
  • gracefull — Archaic form of graceful.
  • graceless — without any sense of right or propriety.
  • gracility — The state of being gracefully slender.
  • grammatic — Grammatical.
  • grand cru — See under cru.
  • grapelice — lice that are destructive to grape plants
  • graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
  • graphical — giving a clear and effective picture; vivid: a graphic account of an earthquake.
  • graphitic — a very common mineral, soft native carbon, occurring in black to dark-gray foliated masses, with metallic luster and greasy feel: used for pencil leads, as a lubricant, and for making crucibles and other refractories; plumbago; black lead.
  • graticule — Navigation. a network of parallels and meridians on a map or chart.
  • grauncher — a person who crushes or destroys
  • gray card — a card of controlled reflectance held near a subject to approximate middle tones and used as a target for an exposure meter.
  • gray code — (hardware)   A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
  • gray duck — any of several ducks in which certain immature or female plumages are predominantly gray, as the gadwall and the pintail.
  • graybacks — Plural form of grayback.
  • grayscale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
  • graywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
  • greatcoat — a heavy overcoat.
  • greenback — a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the Civil War, originally issued against the credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit.
  • greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
  • greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
  • grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
  • grimacing — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
  • grocerant — A grocery store that sells prepared meals, either for eating on site or taking home.
  • gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
  • gynocracy — gynarchy.
  • gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
  • gyromancy — a method of prediction or prophecy in which a person moves round and round in a circle and the place at which they fall to the ground is said to be highly significant
  • hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
  • hagiarchy — hagiocracy.
  • hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
  • hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
  • high-carb — having a high carbohydrate content
  • highchair — a tall chair having arms and very long legs and usually a removable tray for food, for use by a very young child during meals.
  • ignorance — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
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