8-letter words containing g, o, r
- coursing — Coursing is a sport in which rabbits or hares are hunted with dogs.
- courting — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- coverage — The coverage of something in the news is the reporting of it.
- covering — A covering is a layer of something that protects or hides something else.
- cowering — to crouch, as in fear or shame.
- cowgirls — Plural form of cowgirl.
- cowgrass — the common name for Trefolium medium, a species of Trefoil; also applied to the commonly cultivated form of red clover
- crannoge — Alt form crannog.
- crannogs — Plural form of crannog.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- crocking — British Dialect. soot; smut.
- crofting — In Scotland, crofting is the activity of farming on small pieces of land.
- crooking — a bent or curved implement, piece, appendage, etc.; hook.
- crooning — a style of relaxed and seemingly effortless singing, particularly popular in the1930s and 1940s
- cropping — the trimming or masking of unwanted edges or areas of a negative or print
- crossing — A crossing is a journey by boat or ship to a place on the other side of a sea, river, or lake.
- crowding — a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng: a crowd of angry people.
- crowning — the stage of labour when the infant's head is passing through the vaginal opening
- cryogens — Plural form of cryogen.
- cryology — the study of snow and ice.
- d region — the lowest region of the ionosphere, extending from a height of about 60 kilometres to about 90 kilometres: contains a low concentration of free electrons and reflects low-frequency radio waves
- d-prolog — (language) A version of Prolog extended with defeasible reasoning.
- dago red — a cheap red wine, especially a jug wine of Italian origin.
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- de groot — Huig [hœikh] /hœɪx/ (Show IPA), Hugo Grotius.
- defogger — A defogger is a device that removes condensation from the window of a vehicle by blowing warm air onto it.
- degorger — a device for removing a fishhook from the throat of a fish.
- demorage — Obsolete form of demurrage.
- derogate — to cause to seem inferior or be in disrepute; detract
- dig over — If you dig over an area of soil, you dig it thoroughly, so that the soil becomes looser and free from lumps.
- digestor — digester (def 2).
- digitron — a type of tube, for displaying information, having a common anode and several cathodes shaped in the form of characters, which can be lit by a glow discharge
- disgorge — to eject or throw out from the throat, mouth, or stomach; vomit forth.
- dog iron — an andiron.
- dog rose — an Old World wild rose, Rosa canina, having pink or white flowers.
- dog star — the bright star Sirius, in Canis Major.
- dog work — tedious labor; drudgery.
- dog-poor — very poor.
- dog-roll — a large sausage-shaped roll of processed meat used for dog food
- dogberry — the berry or fruit of any of various plants, as the European dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, the chokeberry, Aronia arbutifolia, or the mountain ash, Sorbus americana.
- dogcarts — Plural form of dogcart.
- dogeared — (in a book) a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place.
- doggerel — comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure. rude; crude; poor.
- dognaper — to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.
- dogooder — Alternative spelling of do-gooder.
- dogshore — any of several shores for holding the hull of a small or moderate-sized vessel in place after keel blocks and other shores are removed and until the vessel is launched.
- dogtrots — Plural form of dogtrot.
- dojigger — (informal) A thing whose name is not known; a whatsit or doohickey.
- dordogne — a river in SW France, flowing W to the Gironde estuary. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- dowagers — Plural form of dowager.