9-letter words containing g, o, r, i
- gingerous — (of hair) reddish
- ginormous — extremely large; huge.
- giorgione — (Giorgione de Castelfranco; Giorgio Barbarelli) 1478?–1511, Italian painter.
- gipsywort — a hairy Eurasian plant, Lycopus europaeus, having two-lipped white flowers with purple dots on the lower lip: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- girandole — a rotating and radiating firework.
- giraudoux — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1882–1944, French novelist, playwright, and diplomat.
- girondist — French History. a member of a political party (1791–93) of moderate republicans whose leaders were deputies from the department of Gironde.
- gittarone — an acoustic bass guitar
- give over — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- gladiator — (in ancient Rome) a person, often a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and compelled to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators.
- glamorise — (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ) alternative spelling of glamorize.
- glamorize — to make glamorous.
- glamourie — Alternative spelling of glamoury.
- glomeruli — Irregular plural form of glomerulus.
- glorified — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- glorifier — Agent noun of glorify; one who glorifies.
- glorifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glorify.
- glorioles — Plural form of gloriole.
- glowering — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
- go figure — expression incomprehension
- go for it — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go in for — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- godsister — The daughter of one's godparent.
- goffering — an ornamental plaiting used for frills and borders, as on women's caps.
- goitrogen — any goiter-producing substance, as thiouracil.
- goldbrick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- goldminer — a person who mines gold or works in a gold mine.
- gondolier — a person who rows or poles a gondola.
- gongorism — imitation of the ornate and intricate style of Góngora y Argote.
- good hair — hair showing evidence of some European strain in a person's blood
- gophering — any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- gorgonian — any of numerous alcyonarian corals of the order Gorgonacea, having a usually branching, horny or calcareous skeleton.
- gorgonise — turn to stone
- gorgonize — to affect as a Gorgon; hypnotize; petrify.
- gorilloid — Lb anatomy Resembling (that of) a gorilla.
- goslarite — hydrated zinc sulphate
- gosperism — /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms. See also life.
- gossipers — Plural form of gossiper.
- gossipper — a person who gossips
- governing — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- gradation — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- grandiose — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandioso — grand and imposing.
- graniform — Formed from or like corn.
- granitoid — resembling or having the texture of granite.
- granivore — Any animal that eats seeds as the main part of its diet.
- granolith — a composition stone for pavements, made from crushed granite or the like and cement.
- 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.