8-letter words containing g, r, o, s
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- postdrug — following the administration of a drug
- postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
- 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.
- proggins — a university proctor
- prognose — to predict the course of (disease)
- programs — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- progreso — a city in NW Honduras.
- progress — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
- ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
- resought — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
- rigorism — extreme strictness.
- rigorous — characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules, or discipline: rigorous laws.
- ringtoss — a game in which rings, often made of rope, are tossed to encircle an upright peg.
- roasting — roasted: roast beef.
- robosign — to sign (a document) without reviewing its contents or supporting documents: The bank instructed employees to robosign piles of mortgages.
- roosting — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- roseburg — a city in W Oregon.
- roseslug — any of various types of pest that feed on roses
- rotgrass — a type of grass that is thought to cause sheeprot
- roughest — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- roughish — rather rough: a roughish sea.
- rugosity — having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
- rugulose — finely rugose; having many small wrinkles.
- sagamore — (among the American Indians of New England) a chief or leader.
- saprogen — a plant or animal that can produce decay.
- saramago — José [zhoo-ze] /ʒʊˈzɛ/ (Show IPA), 1922–2010, Portuguese journalist, playwright, and novelist: Nobel prize 1998.
- saratoga — a city in W California.
- sargasso — a gulfweed.
- sargeson — Frank. 1903–82, New Zealand short-story writer and novelist. His work includes the short-story collection That Summer and Other Stories (1946) and the novel I Saw in my Dream (1949)
- sargodha — a city in NE Pakistan.
- savoring — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- scarmoge — a skirmish or minor conflict
- scorning — open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
- scourger — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scouring — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scroggie — having scrogs upon it
- scroggin — a tramper's home-made high-calorie sweetmeat
- scrouger — something big
- scrounge — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- scroungy — given to or characterized by scrounging.
- seignior — a lord, especially a feudal lord; ruler.
- selangor — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 3160 sq. mi. (8184 sq. km). Capital: Shah Alam.
- seraglio — the part of a Muslim house or palace in which the wives and concubines are secluded; harem.
- serology — the science dealing with the immunological properties and actions of serum.
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- shopgirl — a salesgirl; female store clerk.
- shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
- shorting — having little length; not long.
- showgirl — a woman who appears in the chorus of a show, nightclub act, etc.