8-letter words containing g, r, e, t
- large it — to enjoy oneself or celebrate in an extravagant way
- lartigue — Jacques Henri [zhahk ahn-ree] /ʒɑk ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1894–1986, French photographer and painter.
- laughter — the action or sound of laughing.
- legatary — a legatee
- legatura — (music) A tie or brace; a syncopation.
- legerity — physical or mental quickness; nimbleness; agility.
- lethargy — the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
- ligature — the act of binding or tying up: The ligature of the artery was done with skill.
- lighters — Plural form of lighter.
- lingster — an interpreter
- litharge — a yellowish or reddish, odorless, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, PbO, used chiefly in the manufacture of storage batteries, pottery, lead glass, paints, enamels, and inks.
- litreage — a capacity measured in litres
- longterm — covering a relatively long period of time: a long-term lease.
- magister — Master; sir: -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
- magnetar — A neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field.
- magritte — René [French ruh-ney] /French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Belgian painter.
- margaret — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “pearl.”.
- margents — (obsolete) Plural form of margent.
- maritage — the right of a lord to choose the spouses of his wards
- megahurt — (computer slang, rare) megahertz.
- megastar — A very famous person, especially in the world of entertainment.
- meriting — Present participle of merit.
- meterage — the practice of measuring; measurement.
- metering — an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
- mightier — having, characterized by, or showing superior power or strength: mighty rulers.
- migrated — to go from one country, region, or place to another. Synonyms: move, resettle, relocate. Antonyms: remain.
- migrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of migrate.
- mitering — the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- mortgage — the rights conferred by it, or the state of the property conveyed.
- negators — Plural form of negator.
- negatory — marked by negation; denying; negative.
- negatron — Also called negatron. Physics, Chemistry. an elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of matter, having a negative charge of 1.602 × 10 −19 coulombs, a mass of 9.108 × 10 −31 kilograms, and spin of ½, and existing independently or as the component outside the nucleus of an atom.
- negritic — of or relating to blacks or to the Negritos.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nitrogen — a colorless, odorless, gaseous element that constitutes about four-fifths of the volume of the atmosphere and is present in combined form in animal and vegetable tissues, especially in proteins: used chiefly in the manufacture of ammonia, nitric acid, cyanide, explosives, fertilizer, dyes, as a cooling agent, etc. Symbol: N; atomic weight: 14.0067; atomic number: 7; density: 1.2506 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- nor gate — Computers. NOR circuit.
- ostreger — a keeper of hawks
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- outargue — to outdo or defeat in arguing: That man could outargue the devil himself.
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outraged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrage.
- outrages — Plural form of outrage.
- outrange — to have a longer or greater range than.
- outreign — to reign for longer than
- pargeter — a plasterer
- petering — to diminish gradually and stop; dwindle to nothing: The hot water always peters out in the middle of my shower.
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- postgres — (database) An active DBMS developed at the University of California at Berkeley by a team led by Michael Stonebraker (1986-1994). Postgres was later taken by Illustra and developed into a commercial product, which in turn was bought by Informix and integrated into their product, Universal Server.
- prefight — of the period before a boxing match
- pregnant — convincing; cogent: a pregnant argument.