8-letter words containing g, r
- gaff rig — a sailboat rig having one or more fore-and-aft gaff sails.
- gag rule — any rule restricting open discussion or debate concerning a given issue, especially in a deliberative body.
- gagsters — Plural form of gagster.
- gaillard — a spirited dance for two dancers in triple rhythm, common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- gaiseric — Genseric.
- gaitered — wearing gaiters
- galeries — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- galerius — full name Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus. ?250–311 ad, Eastern Roman Emperor (305–311): noted for his persecution of Christians
- galleria — a spacious passageway, court, or indoor mall, usually with a vaulted roof and lined with commercial establishments.
- galliard — a spirited dance for two dancers in triple rhythm, common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- galloper — One who gallops.
- gamblers — Plural form of gambler.
- gambrels — Plural form of gambrel.
- gambroon — a type of twilled linen cloth, often used for lining clothes
- gamester — a gambler.
- gandhara — an ancient region in what is now NW Pakistan.
- ganglier — Comparative form of gangly.
- ganglord — The leader of a gang, especially a criminal organization.
- gangrene — necrosis or death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition and putrefaction.
- gangster — a member of a gang of criminals, especially a racketeer.
- ganister — a highly refractory, siliceous rock used to line furnaces.
- gannetry — a gannet breeding-ground
- gantries — Plural form of gantry.
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- gap year — a period of time, usually an academic or calendar year, in which a student takes a break from school to travel, work, or volunteer, typically after ending high school and before starting college.
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- garaging — a building or indoor area for parking or storing motor vehicles.
- garagist — a person who owns a commercial garage
- garamond — a printing type designed in 1540 by Claude Garamond (c1480–1561), French type founder.
- garbaged — Simple past tense and past participle of garbage.
- garbages — discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
- garbagey — Like garbage; trashy, worthless.
- garbanzo — chickpea (def 1).
- garbling — Present participle of garble.
- garboard — The first range of planks or plates laid on a ship’s bottom next to the keel.
- garcinia — Mangosteen (of the genus Garcinia).
- gardened — Simple past tense and past participle of garden.
- gardener — a person who is employed to cultivate or care for a garden, lawn, etc.
- gardenia — any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers.
- gardiner — Samuel Rawson [raw-suh n] /ˈrɔ sən/ (Show IPA), 1829–1902, English historian.
- 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)
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- garganey — a small Old World duck, Anas querquedula.
- gargling — Present participle of gargle.
- gargoyle — a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
- garishly — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- garlands — Plural form of garland.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- garments — Plural form of garment.