8-letter words containing g, u, n, r
- grownups — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
- grubbing — Present participle of grub.
- 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.
- grumness — the quality of being grum
- grumping — Present participle of grump.
- grundies — men's underpants
- grungier — ugly, run-down, or dilapidated: a grungy, abandoned mill town.
- grunions — Plural form of grunion.
- grunting — to utter the deep, guttural sound characteristic of a hog.
- gruntled — Pleased, satisfied, and contented.
- gruntles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gruntle.
- guaranty — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- guardant — (of an animal) depicted full-faced but with the body seen from the side: a lion guardant.
- guardian — a person who guards, protects, or preserves.
- guarding — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- guarneri — Giuseppe Antonio [joo-zep-pe ahn-taw-nyaw] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Joseph Guarnerius) 1683–1745, Italian violinmaker.
- guerdons — Plural form of guerdon.
- gueridon — a small table or stand, as for holding a candelabrum.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- guernsey — Isle of, one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel. With adjacent islands, about 24½ sq. mi. (63 sq. km).
- gun brig — a naval brig of the 18th century having from 8 to 12 guns.
- gun crew — the sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship.
- gun room — a room in which guns are kept.
- gunfires — Plural form of gunfire.
- gunlayer — a person who aims a ship's gun
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- gunpaper — a type of paper treated with nitric acid so that it has a composition similar to that of guncotton.
- gunrooms — Plural form of gunroom.
- gurgling — to flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current: The water gurgled from the bottle.
- gurindji — an Aboriginal people of N central Australia
- gurnards — Plural form of gurnard.
- guyliner — (informal) Eyeliner when used on men; usually associated with the goth and emo subcultures.
- harangue — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- hourlong — lasting an hour: an hourlong interview.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- hungered — Simple past tense and past participle of hunger.
- hungerly — marked by a hungry look.
- hungover — hung (def 3).
- hungrier — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hungrily — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hurdling — (athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
- hurrying — to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed by up): Hurry, or we'll be late. Hurry up, it's starting to rain.
- hurtling — to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
- imbruing — Present participle of imbrue.
- immuring — Present participle of immure.
- impugner — One who impugns; one who opposes or contradicts.
- in-group — a narrow exclusive group; clique.
- indulger — to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful