8-letter words containing g, r, a, p
- grandpas — Plural form of grandpa.
- grandpop — (US, informal) grandfather.
- grapheme — a minimal unit of a writing system.
- graphene — A fullerene consisting of bonded carbon atoms in sheet form one atom thick.
- graphics — a product of the graphic arts, as a drawing or print.
- graphing — Present participle of graph.
- graphite — a very common mineral, soft native carbon, occurring in black to dark-gray foliated masses, with metallic luster and greasy feel: used for pencil leads, as a lubricant, and for making crucibles and other refractories; plumbago; black lead.
- graphium — a writing stylus
- grapnels — Plural form of grapnel.
- grappled — to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
- grappler — to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
- grapples — Plural form of grapple.
- graspers — Plural form of grasper.
- grasping — greedy; avaricious: a sly, grasping man.
- grass up — to inform on (someone), esp to the police
- grid map — a map on which a network of horizontal and vertical lines are superimposed, for locating points
- gripsack — a traveling bag; grip.
- griptape — a rough tape for sticking to a surface to provide a greater grip
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- gunpaper — a type of paper treated with nitric acid so that it has a composition similar to that of guncotton.
- hairgrip — A flat hairpin having two prongs that hold bobbed hair together.
- handgrip — the grip or clasp of a hand, as in greeting: a firm but friendly handgrip.
- hapsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harpagon — (obsolete) a grappling hook.
- harpings — any of several horizontal members at the ends of a vessel for holding cant frames in position until the shell planking or plating is attached.
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- lard pig — a large type of pig used principally for lard
- leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- odograph — a recording odometer.
- optogram — (physiology) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple.
- packager — a person or business firm that packages a product or merchandise for commercial sale: a soap packager.
- pagurian — a hermit crab, especially of the genus Pagurus.
- palgrave — Francis Turner, 1824–97, English critic, poet, and anthologist.
- palmgren — Selim [sel-im,, sey-lim;; Finnish se-lim] /ˈsɛl ɪm,, ˈseɪ lɪm;; Finnish ˈsɛ lɪm/ (Show IPA), 1878–1951, Finnish pianist and composer.
- panegyry — a panegyric
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- paradigm — Grammar. a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme. a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
- parading — a large public procession, usually including a marching band and often of a festive nature, held in honor of an anniversary, person, event, etc.
- paragoge — the addition of a sound or group of sounds at the end of a word, as in the nonstandard pronunciation of height as height-th or once as once-t.
- paragram — a play on words; a pun
- paraguay — a republic in central South America between Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. 157,047 sq. mi. (406,750 sq. km). Capital: Asunción.
- paralogy — false reasoning
- parasang — an ancient Persian unit of distance, equal to about 3.5 miles (5.6 km).
- parawing — paraglider.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parergon — something that is an accessory to a main work or subject; embellishment.