8-letter words containing g, r
- garnered — to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place.
- garofalo — Galofalo.
- garoting — to execute by the garrote.
- garotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garotter — garrote.
- garreted — having a garret or garrets
- garrison — William Lloyd, 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garroter — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garrotes — Plural form of garrote.
- garrotte — to execute by the garrote.
- gartered — Also called, British, sock suspender, suspender. an article of clothing for holding up a stocking or sock, usually an elastic band around the leg or an elastic strap hanging from a girdle or other undergarment.
- gas fire — A gas fire is a fire that produces heat by burning gas.
- gas ring — A gas ring is a metal device on top of a cooker or stove, where you can burn gas in order to cook food on it.
- gasalier — A gas-powered chandelier.
- gaselier — Alt form gasalier.
- gasifier — An apparatus used to perform gasification.
- gasiform — having the form of gas; gaseous.
- gasolier — a chandelier furnished with gaslights.
- gasteral — Of or pertaining to the stomach.
- gastero- — gastro-
- gastraea — a primeval double-walled sac-like form whose existence was hypothesized by Ernst Haeckel, who proposed that all animals were descended from it
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gastrula — a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.
- gasworks — a plant where heating and illuminating gas is manufactured and piped to homes and buildings.
- gathered — Simple past tense and past participle of gather.
- gatherer — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- gaultier — Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). born 1952, French fashion designer
- gavarnie — a waterfall in SW France, in the Pyrenees. 1384 feet (422 meters) high.
- gavaskar — Sunil Manohar (ˈsʊnɪl ˈmænəʊhɑː). born 1949, Indian cricketer: played in 125 test matches (1971–87), 47 as captain; first batsman to score more than 10,000 test runs
- gayomart — the first Aryan and the sixth creation of Ahura Mazda.
- gazunder — (of a buyer) lower the amount of an offer made on a property and accepted by (a seller) at the time of final negotiations.
- gearcase — a protective casing for the gear mechanism of a vehicle or piece of machinery
- gearhead — A mechanical device used to increase the torque of gears.
- gearings — Plural form of gearing.
- gearless — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- geezerly — Geezery.
- gem iron — a heavy, usually cast-iron oven dish used for baking small cakes (gems)
- gematria — a cabbalistic system of interpretation of the Scriptures by substituting for a particular word another word whose letters give the same numerical sum.
- gemshorn — a type of horn with carved tone holes, traditionally made from the horn of the chamois
- gendarme — a police officer in any of several European countries, especially a French police officer.
- gendered — characteristic of, suited to, or biased toward one gender: gendered diapers.
- genearch — a chief of a family or tribe.
- generall — Archaic spelling of general.
- generals — Plural form of general.
- generant — something that generates
- generate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- generics — Plural form of generic.
- generify — (computing) To make generic.