8-letter words containing g, r, i, l
- growling — Producing a growl.
- grubbily — In a grubby manner.
- grueling — exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe: the grueling Boston marathon.
- gruffily — in a gruffy manner
- grumpily — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- guerilla — a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
- guilders — Plural form of guilder.
- guilford — a town in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- guiltier — having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty; culpable: The jury found her guilty of murder.
- gulliver — (slang) one's head.
- gurgling — to flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current: The water gurgled from the bottle.
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- guyliner — (informal) Eyeliner when used on men; usually associated with the goth and emo subcultures.
- gyroidal — having a spiral arrangement.
- gyrolite — calcium silicate hydroxide in a hydrated form
- hair gel — a jelly-like substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
- hireling — a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.
- holliger — Heinz (haints). born 1939, Swiss oboist and composer
- homegirl — a girl or woman from the same locality as oneself.
- hungrily — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hurdling — (athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
- hurtling — to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
- igdrasil — Ygdrasil
- in large — as a totality or on a broad scale
- indulger — to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- inlarged — Simple past tense and past participle of inlarge.
- integral — of, relating to, or belonging as a part of the whole; constituent or component: integral parts.
- kilogram — a unit of mass equal to 1000 grams: the basic unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder kept in Sèvres, France. Abbreviation: kg.
- kilogray — one thousand grays
- kinglier — Comparative form of kingly.
- knurling — a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
- kringles — Plural form of kringle.
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- lagering — a camp or encampment, especially within a protective circle of wagons.
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- lard pig — a large type of pig used principally for lard
- large it — to enjoy oneself or celebrate in an extravagant way
- larrigan — a knee-high boot of oiled leather with a moccasin foot, worn by lumbermen and trappers.
- lartigue — Jacques Henri [zhahk ahn-ree] /ʒɑk ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1894–1986, French photographer and painter.
- lasering — Present participle of laser.
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- layering — a thickness of some material laid on or spread over a surface: a layer of soot on the window sill; two layers of paint.
- learning — knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application.
- leg iron — a shackle for a prisoner's leg
- legerity — physical or mental quickness; nimbleness; agility.
- leggiero — Misspelling of leggero.
- levering — Mechanics. a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third. Compare machine (def 4b).
- lexigram — (psychology) A symbol that represents a word but is not necessarily indicative of the object referenced by the word, used in studies of communication.
- ligature — the act of binding or tying up: The ligature of the artery was done with skill.