7-letter words containing g, r
- esbjerg — a port in SW Denmark, in Jutland on the North Sea: Denmark's chief fishing port. Pop: 72 550 (2004 est)
- etagere — A piece of furniture with a number of open shelves for displaying ornaments.
- exergue — A small space or inscription below the principal emblem on a coin or medal, usually on the reverse side.
- expurge — to purify; to purge
- faberge — (Peter) Carl Gustavovich [kahrl guh-stah-vuh-vich] /kɑrl gəˈstɑ və vɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1846–1920, Russian goldsmith and jeweler.
- faggery — a slang term for homosexuality
- fairing — Archaic. something that is fair.
- fangirl — Sometimes, fangurl. an obsessive female fan, especially of comic books, science fiction, video games, music, or electronic devices: a web forum for Star Wars fangirls.
- farcing — (cookery, archaic) stuffing; forcemeat.
- farding — facial cosmetics.
- farling — Present participle of farl.
- farming — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- farrago — a confused mixture; hodgepodge; medley: a farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, and wishes.
- farting — Present participle of fart.
- fearing — Present participle of fear.
- feigner — to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
- fergana — a city in E Uzbekistan, SE of Tashkent.
- ferning — (of cervical mucus) the formation of a fern-like pattern
- ferrugo — a disease of plants, commonly known as the rust due to the colour of the fungus by which it is caused
- fibiger — Johannes Andreas Grib [yoh-hah-nis ahn-dre-ahs greeb] /yoʊˈhɑ nɪs ɑnˈdrɛ ɑs grib/ (Show IPA), 1867–1928, Danish pathologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1926.
- figgery — adornments of dress
- fighter — a boxer; pugilist.
- figural — consisting of figures, especially human or animal figures: the figural representations contained in ancient wall paintings.
- figured — ornamented with a device or pattern: figured silk; figured wallpaper.
- figures — Plural form of figure.
- figwort — any of numerous tall, usually coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia, having a terminal cluster of small greenish-brown to purplish-brown flowers.
- fingers — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
- firbolg — any member of the pre-Celtic inhabitants of Ireland who were defeated by the Tuatha De Danann.
- firebug — arsonist; incendiary; pyromaniac.
- firedog — andiron.
- firings — Plural form of firing.
- firming — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- flagger — flagstone (def 1).
- flagler — Henry Morrison, 1830–1913, U.S. financier and developer in Florida.
- flanger — An electronic device that alters a sound signal by introducing a cyclically varying phase shift into one of two identical copies of the signal and recombining them, used especially in popular music to alter the sound of an instrument.
- flaring — blazing; flaming.
- flinger — a person or thing that flings.
- flogger — to beat with a whip, stick, etc., especially as punishment; whip; scourge.
- fogarty — Anne, 1919–80, U.S. fashion designer.
- foggara — An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley; a qanat.
- foggers — Plural form of fogger.
- foggier — Comparative form of foggy.
- foghorn — a deep, loud horn for sounding warning signals in foggy weather, as to ships.
- foraged — Simple past tense and past participle of forage.
- forager — food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.
- forages — Plural form of forage.
- forcing — (of a bid) requiring by convention a response from one’s partner, no matter how weak their hand may be.
- fording — a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
- foregut — Zoology. the first portion of the vertebrate alimentary canal, extending from the pharynx and esophagus to the end of the stomach or gizzard and, in some animals, the anterior duodenum, functioning in the ingestion, temporary storage, and partial digestion of food. the first portion of the alimentary canal in arthropods and annelids, composed of ectodermal, chitin-lined tissue and usually comprising the pharynx, esophagus, crop, and gizzard.
- foreign — of, relating to, or derived from another country or nation; not native: foreign cars.