8-letter words containing g, e, n, r
- guerdons — Plural form of guerdon.
- gueridon — a small table or stand, as for holding a candelabrum.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- guernsey — Isle of, one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel. With adjacent islands, about 24½ sq. mi. (63 sq. km).
- gun crew — the sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship.
- gunfires — Plural form of gunfire.
- gunlayer — a person who aims a ship's gun
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- gunpaper — a type of paper treated with nitric acid so that it has a composition similar to that of guncotton.
- guyliner — (informal) Eyeliner when used on men; usually associated with the goth and emo subcultures.
- gyrodyne — A kind of VTOL aircraft with a helicopter rotor-like system driven by its engine for takeoff and landing, as well as one or more conventional propellers to provide forward thrust during cruising flight.
- hangared — a shed or shelter.
- hangfire — a delay in the detonation of gunpowder or other ammunition, caused by some defect in the fuze.
- hangover — the disagreeable physical aftereffects of drunkenness, such as a headache or stomach disorder, usually felt several hours after cessation of drinking.
- harangue — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- hardinge — Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore. 1785–1856, British politician, soldier, and colonial administrator; governor general of India (1844–48)
- haringey — a borough of Greater London, England.
- havering — a borough of Greater London, England.
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- hearings — Plural form of hearing.
- hearsing — Present participle of hearse.
- hearting — Present participle of heart.
- herrings — Plural form of herring.
- hireling — a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.
- homering — Present participle of homer.
- honegger — Arthur [ahr-ther;; French ar-too r] /ˈɑr θər;; French arˈtʊər/ (Show IPA), 1892–1955, Swiss composer, born in France.
- horngeld — a feudal tax levied on horned cattle
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- hungered — Simple past tense and past participle of hunger.
- hungerly — marked by a hungry look.
- hungover — hung (def 3).
- hungrier — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hydrogen — a colorless, odorless, flammable gas that combines chemically with oxygen to form water: the lightest of the known elements. Symbol: H; atomic weight: 1.00797; atomic number: 1; density: 0.0899 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- ignorers — Plural form of ignorer.
- impinger — Any of several instruments in which fine particles (dust) in a gas are analysed by blowing them through a jet onto a wetted plate, prior to being counted.
- impugner — One who impugns; one who opposes or contradicts.
- in large — as a totality or on a broad scale
- indulger — to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
- infringe — to commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress: to infringe a copyright; to infringe a rule.
- ingather — to gather or bring in, as a harvest.
- ingender — Obsolete spelling of engender.
- ingrates — Plural form of ingrate.
- ingroove — to cut a groove into
- inhering — to exist permanently and inseparably in, as a quality, attribute, or element; belong intrinsically; be inherent: the advantages that inhere in a democratic system.
- inlarged — Simple past tense and past participle of inlarge.
- inrigger — a rowboat having oarlocks on the gunwales.
- integers — Mathematics. one of the positive or negative numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., or zero. Compare whole number.
- integral — of, relating to, or belonging as a part of the whole; constituent or component: integral parts.
- integrin — (biochemistry) Any of many heterodimeric transmembrane proteins that function as receptors in communication between cells.
- interage — the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.