8-letter words containing g, a, r, d
- gadarene — relating to or engaged in a headlong rush
- gadgetry — mechanical or electronic contrivances; gadgets: the gadgetry of the well-equipped modern kitchen.
- gadroons — Plural form of gadroon.
- gaillard — a spirited dance for two dancers in triple rhythm, common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- gaitered — wearing gaiters
- galliard — a spirited dance for two dancers in triple rhythm, common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- gandhara — an ancient region in what is now NW Pakistan.
- ganglord — The leader of a gang, especially a criminal organization.
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- garamond — a printing type designed in 1540 by Claude Garamond (c1480–1561), French type founder.
- garbaged — Simple past tense and past participle of garbage.
- garboard — The first range of planks or plates laid on a ship’s bottom next to the keel.
- gardened — Simple past tense and past participle of garden.
- gardener — a person who is employed to cultivate or care for a garden, lawn, etc.
- gardenia — any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers.
- gardiner — Samuel Rawson [raw-suh n] /ˈrɔ sən/ (Show IPA), 1829–1902, English historian.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- garlands — Plural form of garland.
- garnered — to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place.
- garotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garreted — having a garret or garrets
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- gartered — Also called, British, sock suspender, suspender. an article of clothing for holding up a stocking or sock, usually an elastic band around the leg or an elastic strap hanging from a girdle or other undergarment.
- gathered — Simple past tense and past participle of gather.
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- gazunder — (of a buyer) lower the amount of an offer made on a property and accepted by (a seller) at the time of final negotiations.
- gearhead — A mechanical device used to increase the torque of gears.
- gendarme — a police officer in any of several European countries, especially a French police officer.
- gerardia — any plant of the genus Gerardia
- ghardaia — a city in N Algeria.
- gheraoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gherao.
- giordano — Luca [loo-kuh;; Italian loo-kah] /ˈlu kə;; Italian ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Luca Fapresto") 1632–1705, Italian painter.
- giraffid — An animal of the family Giraffidae (such as the giraffe and okapi).
- gizzards — Also called ventriculus. a thick-walled, muscular pouch in the lower stomach of many birds and reptiles that grinds food, often with the aid of ingested stones or grit.
- gladvert — an advertisement that can be tailored to match the emotional state of the viewer
- gladwrap — a thin polythene material that clings closely to any surface around which it is placed: used for wrapping food
- glanders — a contagious disease chiefly of horses and mules but communicable to humans, caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas mallei and characterized by swellings beneath the jaw and a profuse mucous discharge from the nostrils.
- glendora — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- goadster — a goadsman
- goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- godavari — a river flowing SE from W India to the Bay of Bengal. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- goldmark — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, Hungarian composer.
- gondomar — Diego Sarmiento de Acuña [dye-gaw sahr-myen-taw th e ah-koo-nyah] /ˈdyɛ gɔ sɑrˈmyɛn tɔ ðɛ ɑˈku nyɑ/ (Show IPA), Count of, 1567–1626, Spanish diplomat.
- goodyear — Charles, 1800–60, U.S. inventor: developer of the process of vulcanizing rubber.
- gospodar — a hospodar; a master
- gourmand — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- grabbled — Simple past tense and past participle of grabble.
- gradable — capable of being graded.