8-letter words containing g, r, e, t
- catering — Catering is the activity of providing food and drink for a large number of people, for example at weddings and parties.
- centring — a temporary structure, esp one made of timber, used to support an arch during construction
- chargeth — Archaic third-person singular form of charge.
- citrange — a hybrid orange
- congreet — (of two or more people) to greet one another
- coregent — a joint regent
- corteges — Plural form of cortege.
- cottager — a person who lives in a cottage
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- cresting — an ornamental ridge along the top of a roof, wall, etc
- csg-tree — (graphics) (Or "status tree"?) An approach used in ray tracing to evaluate constructive solid geometry structures.
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- de groot — Huig [hœikh] /hœɪx/ (Show IPA), Hugo Grotius.
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- derogate — to cause to seem inferior or be in disrepute; detract
- deterges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deterge.
- digerati — People with expertise or professional involvement in information technology.
- digester — a person or thing that digests.
- digestor — digester (def 2).
- dirigent — directing
- dragnets — Plural form of dragnet.
- dragonet — any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- dragster — an automobile designed and built specifically for drag racing, especially on a ¼-mi. (402-meter) or ⅛-mi. (201-meter) drag strip.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- 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.
- edgerton — Harold Eugene ("Doc") 1903–90, U.S. electrical engineer and photographer.
- eggcrate — of or resembling a horizontal construction divided by vertical partitions into cell-like areas, used especially for directing downward rays of overhead light: eggcrate ceiling fixtures.
- eggfruit — the fruit of the eggplant or aubergine, Solanum melongena
- ego trip — sth done to satisfy yourself
- emergent — An emergent property.
- 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
- engrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engraft.
- entering — Present participle of enter.
- erecting — Present participle of erect.
- 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
- ergotism — Poisoning produced by eating food affected by ergot, typically resulting in headache, vomiting, diarrhea, and gangrene of the fingers and toes.
- ergotize — to affect with ergot
- eructing — Present participle of eruct.
- erupting — Present participle of erupt.
- escargot — A snail, especially as an item on a menu.
- estragon — Tarragon.
- estrange — Cause (someone) to be no longer close or affectionate to someone; alienate.
- estrogen — Any of a group of steroid hormones that promote the development and maintenance of female characteristics of the body. Such hormones are also produced artificially for use in oral contraceptives or to treat menopausal and menstrual disorders.
- etherege — Sir George. ?1635–?92, English Restoration dramatist; author of the comedies The Comical Revenge (1664), She would if she could (1668), and The Man of Mode (1676)
- ethogram — a description of an animal's behaviour