8-letter words containing g, e, n, r
- gangrene — necrosis or death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition and putrefaction.
- gangster — a member of a gang of criminals, especially a racketeer.
- ganister — a highly refractory, siliceous rock used to line furnaces.
- gannetry — a gannet breeding-ground
- gantries — Plural form of gantry.
- 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.
- garganey — a small Old World duck, Anas querquedula.
- garments — Plural form of garment.
- garnered — to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place.
- gavarnie — a waterfall in SW France, in the Pyrenees. 1384 feet (422 meters) high.
- 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.
- gearings — Plural form of gearing.
- gem iron — a heavy, usually cast-iron oven dish used for baking small cakes (gems)
- gemshorn — a type of horn with carved tone holes, traditionally made from the horn of the chamois
- gendarme — a police officer in any of several European countries, especially a French police officer.
- gendered — characteristic of, suited to, or biased toward one gender: gendered diapers.
- genearch — a chief of a family or tribe.
- generall — Archaic spelling of general.
- generals — Plural form of general.
- generant — something that generates
- generate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- generics — Plural form of generic.
- generify — (computing) To make generic.
- generous — liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
- genetrix — a female progenitor
- genitors — Plural form of genitor.
- geniture — birth; generation.
- gennaker — a type of sail used for downwind sailing
- genogram — a graphic representation of the personalities and interplay of generations within a family, used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior; a psychological family tree.
- genseric — a.d. c390–477, king of the Vandals, conqueror in northern Africa and Italy.
- gentrice — gentility; high birth.
- gentries — Plural form of gentry.
- gentrify — to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- georgann — a female given name.
- georgian — of or relating to the period of British history from the accession of George I in 1714 to the death of George IV in 1830, or the four kings named George who reigned successively during this period.
- georgina — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- geranial — a pale yellow, water-insoluble, liquid aldehyde, C 10 H 16 O, having a strong lemonlike odor, consisting in natural form of two isomers (citral a or geranial and citral b or neral) usually obtained from the oils of lemon and orange or synthetically: used chiefly in perfumery, flavoring, and the synthesis of vitamin A.
- geraniol — a colorless or pale-yellow terpene alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, with a geraniumlike odor, found in rose oil, soluble in alcohol and ether, insoluble in water: used in perfumes and flavors.
- geranium — any of numerous plants of the genus Geranium, which comprises the crane's-bills.
- germaine — a female given name.
- germania — an ancient region in central Europe, N of the Danube River.
- germanic — of or relating to the Teutons or their languages.
- germano- — German, German and
- germinal — being in the earliest stage of development: germinal ideas.
- germline — Those cells of an individual that have genetic material that could be passed to offspring; the source of gametes.
- geronimo — (Goyathlay) 1829–1909, American Apache Indian chief.
- gerontic — geriatric.