8-letter words containing g, r, o
- froglike — any tailless, stout-bodied amphibian of the order Anura, including the smooth, moist-skinned frog species that live in a damp or semiaquatic habitat and the warty, drier-skinned toad species that are mostly terrestrial as adults.
- frogling — A young or little frog.
- frondage — (collectively) the fronds (of a plant)
- frontage — the front of a building or lot.
- fronting — the foremost part or surface of anything.
- froshing — Present participle of frosh.
- frosting — a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
- frothing — an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
- frottage — a technique in the visual arts of obtaining textural effects or images by rubbing lead, chalk, charcoal, etc., over paper laid on a granular or relieflike surface. Compare rubbing (def 2).
- frowning — Present participle of frown.
- furlongs — Plural form of furlong.
- furlough — Military. a vacation or leave of absence granted to an enlisted person.
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- gabbroid — gabbro-like, esp of a rock in the petrographic clan which contains the gabbro family
- gaboriau — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1835–73, French author of detective stories.
- gaborone — a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 275,000 sq. mi. (712,250 sq. km). Capital: Gaborone.
- gadroons — Plural form of gadroon.
- galloper — One who gallops.
- gambroon — a type of twilled linen cloth, often used for lining clothes
- ganglord — The leader of a gang, especially a criminal organization.
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- garamond — a printing type designed in 1540 by Claude Garamond (c1480–1561), French type founder.
- garbanzo — chickpea (def 1).
- garboard — The first range of planks or plates laid on a ship’s bottom next to the keel.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- gargoyle — a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
- garofalo — Galofalo.
- garoting — to execute by the garrote.
- garotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garotter — garrote.
- garrison — William Lloyd, 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garroter — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garrotes — Plural form of garrote.
- garrotte — to execute by the garrote.
- gasiform — having the form of gas; gaseous.
- gasolier — a chandelier furnished with gaslights.
- gastero- — gastro-
- gasworks — a plant where heating and illuminating gas is manufactured and piped to homes and buildings.
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- gayomart — the first Aryan and the sixth creation of Ahura Mazda.
- gem iron — a heavy, usually cast-iron oven dish used for baking small cakes (gems)
- gemshorn — a type of horn with carved tone holes, traditionally made from the horn of the chamois
- generous — liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
- genitors — Plural form of genitor.
- genogram — a graphic representation of the personalities and interplay of generations within a family, used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior; a psychological family tree.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- geoffrey — a male given name: from Germanic, meaning “divine peace.”.