8-letter words containing g, r, o, u
- gurgoyle — Alternative form of gargoyle.
- guy rope — A guy rope is a rope or wire that has one end fastened to a tent or pole and the other end fixed to the ground, so that it keeps the tent or pole in position.
- homburgs — Plural form of homburg.
- hourlong — lasting an hour: an hourlong interview.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- hungover — hung (def 3).
- in-group — a narrow exclusive group; clique.
- inground — sunk into the ground; built into the ground
- ishiguro — Kazuo [kah-zoo-oh,, kaz-oo-oh] /ˈkɑ zuˌoʊ,, ˈkæz uˌoʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1954, English novelist, born in Japan.
- jongleur — (in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.
- laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
- languour — Alternative spelling of languor.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- long run — happening or presented over a long period of time or having a long course of performances: a long-run hit play.
- long-run — happening or presented over a long period of time or having a long course of performances: a long-run hit play.
- longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- longueur — a long and boring passage in a literary work, drama, musical composition, or the like: The longueurs in this book make it almost unreadable.
- loungers — Plural form of lounger.
- louvring — to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
- lugworms — Plural form of lugworm.
- lungworm — any nematode worm of the superfamily Metastrongylidae, parasitic in the lungs of various mammals.
- lungwort — a European plant, Pulmonaria officinalis, of the borage family, having blue flowers.
- mourning — The expression of deep sorrow for someone who has died, typically involving following certain conventions such as wearing black clothes.
- mungcorn — a mixture of grains, esp wheat and rye
- nonsugar — a substance that is not a sugar
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- occuring — Misspelling of occurring, the present participle of occur.
- oliguria — scantiness of urine due to diminished secretion.
- oliguric — of or relating to oliguria
- on guard — prepared, at the ready
- oppugner — Someone who oppugns; an opponent.
- oragious — stormy or tempestuous
- orenburg — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River.
- orgulous — Archaic. haughty; proud.
- origanum — An aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- outargue — to outdo or defeat in arguing: That man could outargue the devil himself.
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outgross — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- outgroup — (systematics) In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.
- outgrown — to grow too large for: to outgrow one's clothes.
- outgrows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgrow.
- outguard — a guard placed furthest away from the main contingent of an army
- 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
- outright — complete or total: an outright loss.
- overhung — simple past tense and past participle of overhang.
- overurge — to urge too strongly