5-letter words containing g, r
- grilf — Girl-friend. Like newsfroup and filk, a typo incarnated as a new word. Seems to have originated sometime in 1992.
- grill — a grating or openwork barrier, as for a gate, usually of metal and often of decorative design.
- grime — dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- grimm — Jakob Ludwig Karl [yah-kop loot-vikh kahrl,, lood-] /ˈyɑ kɒp ˈlut vɪx kɑrl,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), 1785–1863, and his brother Wilhelm Karl [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA) 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists.
- grimy — covered with grime; dirty: I shook his grimy hand.
- grind — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- grins — Plural form of grin.
- griot — a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc.
- gripe — Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.
- grips — Plural form of grip.
- gript — a past participle and simple past tense of grip.
- gripy — resembling or causing gripes.
- grise — (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
- grist — grain to be ground.
- grisy — grim or grisly
- grith — protection or asylum for a limited period of time, as under church or crown.
- grits — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- groan — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- groat — a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662.
- grody — repulsive; disgusting; nauseating.
- grofe — Ferde [fur-dee] /ˈfɜr di/ (Show IPA), (Ferdinand Rudolf von Grofé) 1892–1972, U.S. composer.
- groff — GNU roff. See also nroff, troff. Version 1.07 by James J. Clark <[email protected]>. FTP groff-1.07.tar.z from a GNU archive site.
- groid — (derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- groin — Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- groks — to understand thoroughly and intuitively.
- groma — an instrument having a cruciform wooden frame with a plumb line at the end of each arm, used for laying out lines at right angles to existing lines.
- grone — Obsolete spelling of groan.
- gronk — /gronk/ Popularised by Johnny Hart's comic strip "B.C." but the word apparently predates that. 1. To clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More severe than "to frob" (sense 2). 2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash, or similarly disable. 3. The sound made by many 3.5-inch diskette drives. In particular, the microfloppies on a Commodore Amiga go "grink, gronk".
- groof — the face or the front of the body
- groom — a bridegroom.
- groop — (obsolete, or, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or small ditch.
- groot — Huig [hœikh] /hœɪx/ (Show IPA), Hugo Grotius.
- grope — to feel about with the hands; feel one's way: I had to grope around in the darkness before I found the light switch.
- gross — 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.
- grosz — an aluminum coin of Poland, the 100th part of a zloty.
- grote — George, 1794–1871, English historian.
- group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- grout — a thin, coarse mortar poured into various narrow cavities, as masonry joints or rock fissures, to fill them and consolidate the adjoining objects into a solid mass.
- grove — Sir George, 1820–1900, English musicologist.
- grovy — Pertaining to or characterised by groves; situated in a grove.
- growe — Archaic spelling of grow.
- growl — to utter a deep guttural sound of anger or hostility: The dog growled at the mail carrier.
- grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
- grows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grow.
- grubs — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- gruds — (slang, New Zealand) Underpants, underwear.
- gruel — a light, usually thin, cooked cereal made by boiling meal, especially oatmeal, in water or milk.
- grues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grue.
- gruff — low and harsh; hoarse: a gruff voice.
- gruft — (dialect) the particles of soil that are spattered up onto grass by the rain.