8-letter words containing g, r, i, d, e
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drearing — sorrow; grief
- dredging — Present participle of dredge.
- dreggish — resembling or containing dregs
- dressing — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- druggies — Plural form of druggie.
- edinburg — a city in S Texas.
- enduring — Continuing or long-lasting.
- engirdle — Surround; encircle.
- enridged — ridged
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- fidgeter — a person who fidgets
- fingered — having fingers, especially of a specified kind or number (often used in combination): a five-fingered glove.
- firedogs — Plural form of firedog.
- frighted — Simple past tense and past participle of fright.
- gaitered — wearing gaiters
- 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.
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- gerardia — any plant of the genus Gerardia
- ghiordes — a Turkish rug characterized by an uneven pile produced by the Ghiordes knot.
- gibbered — Simple past tense and past participle of gibber; to talk incomprehensibly.
- gingered — Spiced with ginger.
- gliddery — slippery
- goderich — Viscount, title of Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon. 1782–1859, British statesman; prime minister (1827–28)
- goodsire — a grandfather
- gordimer — Nadine, 1923–2014, South African short-story writer and novelist: Nobel Prize 1991.
- gradient — the degree of inclination, or the rate of ascent or descent, in a highway, railroad, etc.
- gravidae — a woman's status regarding pregnancy; usually followed by a roman numeral designating the number of times the woman has been pregnant.
- greedier — Comparative form of greedy.
- greedily — excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
- griddled — Simple past tense and past participle of griddle.
- griddles — Plural form of griddle.
- gridelin — a greyish violet colour
- grievand — One who is the object of a formal grievance.
- grillade — a dish or serving of broiled or grilled meat.
- grimaced — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- grinders — Plural form of grinder.
- grindery — a workshop for grinding edge tools.
- griselda — a woman of exemplary meekness and patience.
- grizzled — gray; grayish; devoid of hue.
- grundies — men's underpants
- gueridon — a small table or stand, as for holding a candelabrum.
- guilders — Plural form of guilder.
- hagrider — a person or thing that causes distressing anxiety or apprehension
- hagrides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hagride.
- hardinge — Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore. 1785–1856, British politician, soldier, and colonial administrator; governor general of India (1844–48)