8-letter words containing g, r
- draining — Present participle of drain.
- dramming — Measurements. a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams). 1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- drangway — a narrow lane; passageway
- dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughty — characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.
- drawling — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drearing — sorrow; grief
- dredgers — Plural form of dredger.
- dredging — Present participle of dredge.
- dreggish — resembling or containing dregs
- dressage — haute école (def 1).
- dressing — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- drifting — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- drilling — a small furrow made in the soil in which to sow seeds.
- drinking — suitable or safe to drink: drinking water.
- drip bag — a bag used for administering an intravenous solution to a patient
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- dripping — an act of dripping.
- drogheda — a seaport in the NE Republic of Ireland, near the mouth of the Boyne River: the town was captured by Cromwell in 1649 and its garrisons as well as many male inhabitants put to the sword.
- drogoman — Alternative form of dragoman.
- drolling — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- drooling — to water at the mouth, as in anticipation of food; salivate; drivel.
- drooping — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- droppage — an amount dropped or wasted during application, installation, etc.: Mix some extra plaster to allow for droppage.
- dropping — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- droughts — Plural form of drought.
- droughty — dry.
- drowning — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drowsing — Present participle of drowse.
- drubbing — a blow with a stick or the like.
- drudgery — menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
- drudging — Present participle of drudge.
- drudgism — the work of a drudge
- druggies — Plural form of druggie.
- drugging — Present participle of drug.
- druggist — a person who compounds or prepares drugs according to medical prescriptions; apothecary; pharmacist; dispensing chemist.
- drugless — being without the use of drugs, as certain methods of medical treatment.
- druglord — the head of an organization or network involved in illegal drug trafficking.
- drumming — The act of beating a drum.
- duisburg — a city in W Germany, at the junction of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers: the largest river port in Europe; formed 1929 from the cities of Duisburg and Hamborn.
- dunaburg — German name of Daugavpils.
- dungaree — dungarees. work clothes, overalls, etc., of blue denim. blue jeans.
- dungmere — a hole or a trench for the collection of waste matter
- durgapur — a city in S West Bengal State, NE India.
- dwarfing — Present participle of dwarf.