8-letter words containing g, r
- friezing — carved or painted work formerly decorating the upper parts of the hulls of vessels, especially in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- frigates — Plural form of frigate.
- frigging — to copulate with.
- frighted — Simple past tense and past participle of fright.
- frighten — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frigidly — In a frigid manner; coldly.
- frilling — a trimming, as a strip of cloth or lace, gathered at one edge and left loose at the other; ruffle.
- fringers — Plural form of fringer.
- fringing — a decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip.
- frisking — Present participle of frisk.
- fritting — Present participle of frit.
- fritzing — Present participle of fritz.
- frizzing — the state of being frizzed.
- frocking — a gown or dress worn by a girl or woman.
- frog pad — a rubber or leather cushion fixed to a leather sole and fitted under a horseshoe to reduce shock to a horse's foot
- frog-bit — an aquatic, floating plant, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, of Eurasia, having thick, roundish, spongy leaves.
- frogeyed — (of a person) having a bulging eye or bulging eyes
- frogfish — any tropical marine fish of the family Antennariidae, having a wide, froglike mouth and broad, limblike pectoral fins.
- froggery — a collection of frogs
- froggies — Plural form of froggy.
- frogging — 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.
- 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.
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- frugging — a dance deriving from the twist.
- fruitage — the bearing of fruit: soil additives to hasten the fruitage.
- fruiting — any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
- fulgural — of or relating to lightning
- furigana — (human language, Japanese) (Or "rubi") Small hiragana, written above kanji (and these days sometimes above Latin characters) as a phonetic comment and reading aid. The singular and plural are both "furigana".
- furlongs — Plural form of furlong.
- furlough — Military. a vacation or leave of absence granted to an enlisted person.
- g-string — a loincloth or breechcloth, usually secured by a cord at the waist.
- gabblers — Plural form of gabbler.
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- gabbroid — gabbro-like, esp of a rock in the petrographic clan which contains the gabbro family
- gabeller — a person who collected the gabelle; a tax-collector
- 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.
- gabrieli — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1510–86, Italian organist and composer.
- gadarene — relating to or engaged in a headlong rush
- gadgetry — mechanical or electronic contrivances; gadgets: the gadgetry of the well-equipped modern kitchen.
- gadroons — Plural form of gadroon.