6-letter words containing g, u, r
- frugal — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- fugard — Athol (Harold) born 1932, South African playwright and actor.
- fugger — Jakob II [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), ("the Rich") 1459–1525, German financier, a member of a German family of bankers and merchants of the 14th to 17th centuries.
- fulgor — Splendor, splendour; dazzling brightness.
- garous — Relating to, or resembling, garum.
- garuda — A large mythical bird or bird-like creature that appears in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology.Garuda is the son of Kadruva.
- gaufer — a waffle
- gauger — a person or thing that gauges.
- gepurs — An early system on the IBM 701.
- gerund — (in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”. See also gerundive (def 1).
- giaour — an unbeliever; a non-Muslim, especially a Christian.
- giraud — Henri Honoré [ahn ree aw-naw-rey] /ɑ̃ ˈri ɔ nɔˈreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1879–1949, French general.
- glarus — a canton in E central Switzerland. 264 sq. mi. (684 sq. km).
- gluers — Plural form of gluer.
- glurge — stories, often sent by email, that are supposed to be true and uplifting, but which are often fabricated and sentimental
- gopura — A monumental tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a temple, especially in Southern India.
- gouger — a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
- gourde — a paper money and monetary unit of Haiti, equal to 100 centimes. Abbreviation: G., Gde.
- gourds — Plural form of gourd.
- gourdy — (of horses) swollen-legged
- gradus — a work consisting wholly or in part of exercises of increasing difficulty.
- granum — (in prescriptions) a grain.
- grault — /grawlt/ Yet another metasyntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the GOSMACS documentation. See corge.
- graunt — Archaic spelling of grant.
- greuze — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1725–1805, French painter.
- griqua — (in South Africa) a person of mixed African and European descent, especially a native of Griqualand.
- grouch — to be sulky or morose; show discontent; complain, especially in an irritable way.
- grough — a natural channel or fissure in a peat moor; a peat hag
- ground — the act of grinding.
- groupe — Obsolete spelling of group.
- groups — Plural form of group.
- grouse — any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae. Compare black grouse, capercaillie, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse.
- grouts — 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.
- grouty — sulky; surly; bad-tempered.
- grubby — dirty; slovenly: children with grubby faces and sad eyes.
- grudge — a feeling of ill will or resentment: to hold a grudge against a former opponent.
- gruels — Plural form of gruel.
- gruffy — gruff.
- grugru — any of several spiny-trunked, tropical feather palms, as Acrocomia totai, of tropical America, having a swollen trunk with rings of blackish spines.
- grumly — in a grum manner
- grumph — to grunt
- grumps — Plural form of grump.
- grumpy — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- grundy — Mrs. a narrow-minded, conventional person who is extremely critical of any breach of propriety.
- grunge — dirt; filth; rubbish.
- grungy — ugly, run-down, or dilapidated: a grungy, abandoned mill town.
- grunth — the sacred scripture of the Sikhs, original text compiled 1604.
- grunts — Plural form of grunt.
- grunty — Making grunting sounds.
- grutch — To murmur, complain.