9-letter words containing g, r, o, e
- goldcrest — a Eurasian kinglet, Regulus regulus, having a bright yellow patch on the top of the head.
- goldenrod — any composite plant of the genus Solidago, most species of which bear numerous small, yellow flower heads.
- goldminer — a person who mines gold or works in a gold mine.
- goldurned — goldarn.
- goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
- gondolier — a person who rows or poles a gondola.
- gonophore — an asexually produced bud in hydrozoans that gives rise to the equivalent of a medusa.
- gonorrhea — a contagious, purulent inflammation of the urethra or the vagina, caused by the gonococcus.
- goosander — a common merganser, Mergus merganser, of Eurasia and North America.
- gooseherd — a person who tends geese.
- gophering — any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- gorbachev — Mikhail S(ergeyevich) [mi-kahyl sur-gey-uh-vich,, mi-keyl;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel syir-gye-yi-vyich] /mɪˈkaɪl sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ,, mɪˈkeɪl;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Soviet political leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1985–91; president of the Soviet Union 1988–91; Nobel Peace Prize 1990.
- gorehound — an enthusiast of gory horror films
- gorgonise — turn to stone
- gorgonize — to affect as a Gorgon; hypnotize; petrify.
- goslarite — hydrated zinc sulphate
- gospelers — Plural form of gospeler.
- gospeller — a person who reads or sings the Gospel.
- gosperism — /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms. See also life.
- gossamere — Obsolete form of gossamer.
- gossamers — Plural form of gossamer.
- gossamery — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
- gossipers — Plural form of gossiper.
- gossipper — a person who gossips
- goverment — Misspelling of government.
- governall — government
- governers — Plural form of governer.
- governess — a woman who is employed to take charge of a child's upbringing, education, etc.
- governing — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- governors — Plural form of governor.
- grab rope — a rope supported to afford a hold for a person walking up a gangplank, working aloft, etc.
- grandiose — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- granivore — Any animal that eats seeds as the main part of its diet.
- granulose — granular.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- gray code — (hardware) A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
- graystone — (uncountable) A type of gray, volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.
- great dog — the constellation Canis Major.
- great toe — big toe.
- great-one — Wayne ("The Great One") born 1961, Canadian ice hockey player.
- greatcoat — a heavy overcoat.
- greedsome — greedy
- greek god — a man who is strikingly handsome and well built.
- greenhorn — an untrained or inexperienced person.
- greenough — Horatio, 1805–52, U.S. sculptor.
- greenroom — a lounge in a theater, broadcasting studio, or the like, for use by performers when they are not onstage, on camera, etc.
- greenshoe — (finance) An option that allows underwriters to short-sell shares in a registered securities offering at the offering price.
- greensome — a match for two pairs in which each of the four players tees off and after selecting the better drive the partners of each pair play that ball alternately
- greenwood — a city in W South Carolina.
- gregorian — of or relating to any of the popes named Gregory, especially Gregory I or Gregory XIII.