8-letter words containing g, r, a, t, i
- earthing — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- emigrant — A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- emigrate — Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- enargite — a sulphide of copper and arsenic
- ergastic — consisting of the non-living by-products of protoplasmic activity
- ergative — Relating to or denoting a case of nouns (in some languages, e.g., Basque and Eskimo) that identifies the subject of a transitive verb and is different from the case that identifies the subject of an intransitive verb.
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- exgratia — (chiefly, India) Alternative form of ex gratia.
- farsight — The faculty of looking far ahead; farsightedness; prescience.
- farthing — a former bronze coin of Great Britain, equal to one-fourth of a British penny: withdrawn in 1961.
- figeater — green June beetle.
- figurant — a ballet dancer who does not perform solo.
- figurate — Forming a figure.
- fracting — Alternative form of fracking.
- frigates — Plural form of frigate.
- fruitage — the bearing of fruit: soil additives to hasten the fruitage.
- gaitered — wearing gaiters
- ganister — a highly refractory, siliceous rock used to line furnaces.
- gantries — Plural form of gantry.
- garagist — a person who owns a commercial garage
- garoting — to execute by the garrote.
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gaultier — Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). born 1952, French fashion designer
- gematria — a cabbalistic system of interpretation of the Scriptures by substituting for a particular word another word whose letters give the same numerical sum.
- giftware — china, crystal, or other items suitable for gifts.
- giftwrap — to wrap (something), as a package, with decorative paper, ribbon, etc., for presentation as a gift.
- glutaric — Of or pertaining to glutaric acid or its derivatives.
- go-train — a lightweight passenger train providing rapid surface transport between a city center and the suburbs and from suburb to suburb.
- gradatim — (in prescriptions) by degrees; gradually.
- gradient — the degree of inclination, or the rate of ascent or descent, in a highway, railroad, etc.
- graffiti — plural of graffito.
- graffito — Archaeology. an ancient drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface.
- grafting — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
- graithly — in a graith manner
- granitas — Plural form of granita.
- granites — Plural form of granite.
- granitic — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- granting — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- 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.
- gratinee — to cook (food) au gratin
- gratings — Plural form of grating.
- gratious — Obsolete form of gracious.
- grattoir — a flaked stone implement, usually Upper Paleolithic, retouched at the end and used probably for working wood or cleaning hides; scraper.
- gratuity — a gift of money, over and above payment due for service, as to a waiter or bellhop; tip.
- gravitas — seriousness or sobriety, as of conduct or speech.
- gravitic — Of or pertaining to gravity. (Archaic/rare, gravitational is more common, still seen though in compounds like magnetogravitic.).
- graviton — the theoretical quantum of gravitation, usually assumed to be an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of two.
- gregatim — in flocks or crowds
- grievant — a person who submits a complaint for arbitration.
- griptape — a rough tape for sticking to a surface to provide a greater grip