8-letter words containing g, r
- gross up — to increase (net income) to its pretax value
- grossest — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- grossing — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- grottoed — having, or enclosed in, a grotto
- grottoes — Plural form of grotto.
- grouched — Simple past tense and past participle of grouch.
- grouches — Plural form of grouch.
- grounded — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- grounder — ground ball.
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- groupers — Plural form of grouper.
- groupies — Plural form of groupie.
- grouping — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- groupism — the tendency to conform to the general thinking and behavior of a group.
- groupist — a follower of a group
- grouplet — a small group
- groupoid — an algebraic system closed under a binary operation. Also called monoid. Compare group (def 9), semigroup.
- grousers — Plural form of grouser.
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- grouting — Grout, especially when hardened.
- groveled — (US) Simple past form of grovel.
- groveler — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- grow bag — a plastic bag containing a sufficient amount of a sterile growing medium and nutrients to enable a plant, such as a tomato or pepper, to be grown to full size in it, usually for one season only
- grow fat — If you say that a person or organization has grown fat on something, you mean that they have become very rich as a result of it.
- grow out — hairstyle: allow to lengthen
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- growings — Plural form of growing.
- growlers — Plural form of growler.
- growlery — a place to retreat to, alone, when ill-humoured
- growling — Producing a growl.
- grown-up — having reached the age of maturity.
- grownups — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
- grub hoe — a heavy hoe for digging up roots, stumps, etc.
- grub saw — a handsaw for cutting stone.
- grubbers — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- grubbier — Comparative form of grubby.
- grubbies — a small sculpin, Myxocephalus aenaeus, inhabiting waters off the coast of New England.
- grubbily — In a grubby manner.
- grubbing — Present participle of grub.
- grubworm — grub (def 1).
- grudging — done, arranged, etc., in order to settle a grudge: The middleweight fight was said to be a grudge match.
- grueling — exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe: the grueling Boston marathon.
- grueller — a person who eats gruel
- gruesome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- gruffily — in a gruffy manner
- gruffish — Somewhat gruff.
- gruiform — of or relating to birds of the order Gruiformes, including cranes, rails, and coots.
- grumbled — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- grumbler — A person who persistently grumbles; a complainer.
- grumbles — Plural form of grumble.