8-letter words containing g, r, e, a
- frigates — Plural form of frigate.
- frondage — (collectively) the fronds (of a plant)
- frontage — the front of a building or lot.
- frottage — a technique in the visual arts of obtaining textural effects or images by rubbing lead, chalk, charcoal, etc., over paper laid on a granular or relieflike surface. Compare rubbing (def 2).
- fruitage — the bearing of fruit: soil additives to hasten the fruitage.
- gabblers — Plural form of gabbler.
- gabeller — a person who collected the gabelle; a tax-collector
- 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.
- gabrieli — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1510–86, Italian organist and composer.
- gadarene — relating to or engaged in a headlong rush
- gadgetry — mechanical or electronic contrivances; gadgets: the gadgetry of the well-equipped modern kitchen.
- gag rule — any rule restricting open discussion or debate concerning a given issue, especially in a deliberative body.
- gagsters — Plural form of gagster.
- gaiseric — Genseric.
- gaitered — wearing gaiters
- galeries — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- galerius — full name Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus. ?250–311 ad, Eastern Roman Emperor (305–311): noted for his persecution of Christians
- galleria — a spacious passageway, court, or indoor mall, usually with a vaulted roof and lined with commercial establishments.
- galloper — One who gallops.
- gamblers — Plural form of gambler.
- gambrels — Plural form of gambrel.
- gamester — a gambler.
- ganglier — Comparative form of gangly.
- 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.
- gap year — a period of time, usually an academic or calendar year, in which a student takes a break from school to travel, work, or volunteer, typically after ending high school and before starting college.
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- garbaged — Simple past tense and past participle of garbage.
- garbages — discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
- garbagey — Like garbage; trashy, worthless.
- 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.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- garganey — a small Old World duck, Anas querquedula.
- gargoyle — a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
- garments — Plural form of garment.
- garnered — to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place.
- garotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garotter — garrote.
- garreted — having a garret or garrets
- garroted — 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.
- garroter — 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.
- garrotes — Plural form of garrote.
- garrotte — to execute by the garrote.