7-letter words containing g, r
- progger — a fan of progressive rock music
- proglet — /prog'let/ [UK] A short extempore program written to meet an immediate, transient need. Often written in BASIC, rarely more than a dozen lines long and containing no subroutines. The largest amount of code that can be written off the top of one's head, that does not need any editing, and that runs correctly the first time (this amount varies significantly according to one's skill and the language one is using). Compare toy program, noddy, one-liner wars.
- program — software
- progres — (language) PROgrammed Graph REwriting Systems.
- prolong — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
- pronged — having prongs (often used in combination): a four-pronged fork.
- propage — to (cause to) reproduce
- protege — a person under the patronage, protection, or care of someone interested in his or her career or welfare.
- pruning — Archaic. to preen.
- prurigo — a skin condition characterized by itching papules.
- pugaree — pugree.
- puggree — pugree.
- pugmark — pug4 (def 1).
- purging — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- purring — to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
- pursing — a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- pyrogen — a substance, as a thermostable bacterial toxin, that produces a rise in temperature in a human or animal.
- quiring — Present participle of quire.
- racking — Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
- rafting — a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials: an inflatable rubber raft.
- rag bag — a bag in which small pieces of cloth are kept for use in mending.
- rag rug — a rug, often multicolored, made of rags or strips of fabric woven or stitched together.
- rag-bag — a bag in which small pieces of cloth are kept for use in mending.
- ragbolt — barb bolt.
- ragdoll — a stuffed doll, especially of cloth.
- rageful — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- ragfish — a deep-sea fish of the family Icosteidae, inhabiting the North Pacific, having a very flexible body owing to its soft, highly cartilaginous skeleton.
- raggedy — ragged.
- raggery — rags
- ragging — a musical composition in ragtime: a piano rag.
- raghead — an offensive term for a person who wears a turban, keffiyeh, etc
- ragment — a statute, roll, or list
- ragtime — a novel (1975) by E. L. Doctorow.
- ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
- ragwork — masonry of thin, undressed rubble.
- ragworm — any polychaete worm of the genus Nereis, living chiefly in burrows in sand or mud and having a flattened body with a row of fleshy parapodia along each side
- ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
- raiding — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- railage — an amount charged for transporting goods by rail.
- railing — a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
- raining — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- raising — an increase in amount, as of wages: a raise in pay.
- raleigh — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 52,586 sq. mi. (136,198 sq. km). Capital: Raleigh. Abbreviation: NC (for use with zip code), N.C.
- ramming — a male sheep.
- rampage — violent or excited behavior that is reckless, uncontrolled, or destructive.
- ramping — a sloping surface connecting two levels; incline.
- ranging — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- rangoli — a traditional Indian art form using coloured sand or powder to decorate a floor, courtyard, or other flat surface
- rangoon — former name of Yangon.
- rangpur — a variety of mandarin orange, bearing a tart fruit.