9-letter words containing g, r, a
- garnished — Simple past tense and past participle of garnish.
- garnishee — to attach (money or property) by garnishment.
- garnisher — to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate.
- garnishes — Plural form of garnish.
- garnishor — (legal) A person who garnishes; one who obtains a garnishment against another.
- garnishry — an adornment or decoration
- garniture — something that garnishes; decoration; adornment.
- garotting — to execute by the garrote.
- garreteer — a person who lives in a garret, especially a penniless writer
- garrisons — Plural form of garrison.
- garroting — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garrotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garrulity — the quality of being garrulous; talkativeness; loquacity.
- garrulous — excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters.
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- gartering — Present participle of garter.
- gas meter — an apparatus for measuring and recording the amount of gas produced or consumed, especially such an apparatus metering the amount of household gas piped into a dwelling.
- gas poker — a long tubular gas burner used to kindle a fire
- gas range — a cooking stove that uses household gas as fuel.
- gas-fired — using a gas for fuel.
- gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
- gasometer — an apparatus for measuring and storing gas in a laboratory.
- gasometre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of gasometer.
- gasometry — the measurement of gases.
- gaspergou — freshwater drum.
- gastraeum — the underside of the body, especially of a bird
- gastrique — A syrupy reduction of vinegar (or wine) and sugar.
- gastritis — inflammation of the stomach, especially of its mucous membrane.
- gastrobot — a robot that is able to supply itself with sugar, which it uses as a source of fuel
- gastropod — any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, comprising the snails, whelks, slugs, etc.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- gastrular — Of or pertaining to a gastrula.
- gastrulas — Plural form of gastrula.
- gatecrash — To attend a social event without having been invited, or without having paid.
- gather up — collect
- gatherers — Plural form of gatherer.
- gathering — a drawing together; contraction.
- gaucherie — lack of social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkwardness; crudeness; tactlessness.
- gauleiter — the leader or chief official of a political district under Nazi control.
- gaurantee — Misspelling of guarantee.
- gay power — the organized political influence exerted by homosexuals as a group, especially to ensure equal rights in employment, housing, etc.
- gazetteer — a geographical dictionary.
- gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- gear knob — a gear lever
- gear pump — lobular pump.
- gearboxes — Plural form of gearbox.
- gearshift — shift lever.
- gearstick — The lever used to change gear in a vehicle.
- gearwheel — a wheel having teeth or cogs that engage with those of another wheel or part; cogwheel.
- gelligaer — a town in S Wales, in Caerphilly county borough. Pop (including Ystrad Mynach): 17 185 (2001)