9-letter words containing g, r, a, c, e
- factorage — the action or business of a factor.
- flagrance — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- fragrance — the quality of being fragrant; a sweet or pleasing scent.
- garlicked — flavoured with garlic
- gatecrash — To attend a social event without having been invited, or without having paid.
- gaucherie — lack of social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkwardness; crudeness; tactlessness.
- gearstick — The lever used to change gear in a vehicle.
- generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.
- generical — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- genicular — of or relating to the knee
- geocacher — A person who hides or seeks objects as part of the sport of geocaching.
- geocarpic — pertaining to geocarpy
- geocorona — a belt of ionized hydrogen surrounding the earth at the outer limit of the exosphere.
- geomancer — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- georgical — Georgic; relating to rural affairs.
- gerfalcon — gyrfalcon.
- geriatric — of or relating to geriatrics, old age, or aged persons.
- gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
- gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
- glaciered — covered by, or coming from, glaciers
- glare ice — ice having a smooth, glassy surface that reflects sunlight.
- gorbachev — Mikhail S(ergeyevich) [mi-kahyl sur-gey-uh-vich,, mi-keyl;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel syir-gye-yi-vyich] /mɪˈkaɪl sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ,, mɪˈkeɪl;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Soviet political leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1985–91; president of the Soviet Union 1988–91; Nobel Peace Prize 1990.
- grace cup — a cup, as of wine, passed around at the end of the meal for the final health or toast.
- gracefull — Archaic form of graceful.
- graceless — without any sense of right or propriety.
- grapelice — lice that are destructive to grape plants
- graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
- graticule — Navigation. a network of parallels and meridians on a map or chart.
- grauncher — a person who crushes or destroys
- gray code — (hardware) A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
- grayscale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- graywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- greatcoat — a heavy overcoat.
- greenback — a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the Civil War, originally issued against the credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit.
- greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
- greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- grocerant — A grocery store that sells prepared meals, either for eating on site or taking home.
- hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- ignorance — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
- in charge — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- lackering — to coat with lacquer.
- lag screw — type of threaded bolt
- lag-screw — to fasten with a lag screw.
- large-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more.
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- macgregor — Joanna (Clare). born 1959, British concert pianist and broadcaster; recordings include the "crossover" album Play (2001)
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies