8-letter words containing g, r, a, n
- étranger — a foreigner
- fairings — Plural form of fairing.
- fan-girl — Sometimes, fangurl. an obsessive female fan, especially of comic books, science fiction, video games, music, or electronic devices: a web forum for Star Wars fangirls.
- far gone — departed; left.
- far-gone — remote.
- farthing — a former bronze coin of Great Britain, equal to one-fourth of a British penny: withdrawn in 1961.
- favoring — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- figurant — a ballet dancer who does not perform solo.
- finagler — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- firefang — combustion taking place in compost due to the heat produced by decomposition
- flagrant — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- for gain — If you do something for gain, you do it in order to get some advantage or profit for yourself, and for no other reason.
- foraging — food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.
- foraying — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- fracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- fracting — Alternative form of fracking.
- fragging — to kill, wound, or assault (especially an unpopular or overzealous superior) with a fragmentation grenade.
- fragment — fragmentation
- fragrant — having a pleasant scent or aroma; sweet-smelling; sweet-scented: a fragrant rose.
- frakking — Present participle of frak.
- framings — Plural form of framing.
- franking — The action of franking a letter or parcel.
- frapping — to bind or wrap tightly with ropes or chains.
- freaking — a fleck or streak of color.
- freegans — Plural form of freegan.
- frondage — (collectively) the fronds (of a plant)
- frontage — the front of a building or lot.
- furigana — (human language, Japanese) (Or "rubi") Small hiragana, written above kanji (and these days sometimes above Latin characters) as a phonetic comment and reading aid. The singular and plural are both "furigana".
- gaborone — a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 275,000 sq. mi. (712,250 sq. km). Capital: Gaborone.
- gadarene — relating to or engaged in a headlong rush
- gadroons — Plural form of gadroon.
- gambroon — a type of twilled linen cloth, often used for lining clothes
- gandhara — an ancient region in what is now NW Pakistan.
- ganglier — Comparative form of gangly.
- ganglord — The leader of a gang, especially a criminal organization.
- 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.
- garaging — a building or indoor area for parking or storing motor vehicles.
- garamond — a printing type designed in 1540 by Claude Garamond (c1480–1561), French type founder.
- garbanzo — chickpea (def 1).
- garbling — Present participle of garble.
- garcinia — Mangosteen (of the genus Garcinia).
- 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.