7-letter words containing i, r, a, n
- granthi — the caretaker of a gurdwara and the reader of the Guru Granth, who officiates at Sikh ceremonies
- graspin — An Esprit project to develop a personal software engineering environment to support the construction and verification of distributed and non-sequential software systems.
- gratian — (Flavius Gratianus) a.d. 359–383, Roman emperor 375–383.
- gratine — to bake or broil (food) in au gratin style.
- grating — a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- graving — to clean and apply a protective composition of tar to (the bottom of a ship).
- graying — of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
- grazing — a touching or rubbing lightly in passing.
- grecian — Greek (especially with reference to ancient Greece).
- gringas — Plural form of gringa.
- gripman — a worker on a cable car who operates the grip, which, by grasping or releasing the moving cable, starts or stops the car.
- guarani — a member of an Indian people now living principally in Paraguay.
- guarini — Guarino [gwah-ree-naw] /gwɑˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1624–83, Italian architect.
- hadrian — Adrian VI.
- hairnet — a cap of loose net, as of silk or nylon, for holding the hair in place.
- hairpin — a slender U -shaped piece of wire, shell, etc., used by women to fasten up the hair or hold a headdress.
- handier — Comparative form of handy.
- harding — Chester, 1792–1866, U.S. portrait painter.
- hariana — a state in NW India, formed in 1966 from the S part of Punjab. 17,074 sq. mi. (44,222 sq. km). Capital: (shared with Punjab) Chandigarh.
- harijan — untouchable (def 5).
- harking — to listen attentively; hearken.
- harkins — William Draper, 1873–1951, U.S. chemist.
- harling — Present participle of harl.
- harmine — an alkaloid drug, C13H12N2O, present in ayahuasca and used in medicine as a stimulant
- harming — Present participle of harm.
- harping — a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
- heparin — Biochemistry. a polysaccharide, occurring in various tissues, especially the liver, and having anticoagulent properties.
- hernial — the protrusion of an organ or tissue through an opening in its surrounding walls, especially in the abdominal region.
- hernias — Plural form of hernia.
- honiara — (used with a plural verb) an archipelago in the W Pacific Ocean, E of New Guinea; important World War II battles; politically divided between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
- hryvnia — The currency of Ukraine, symbol ₴, divided into 100 kopiykas.
- hurrian — a member of an ancient people, sometimes identified with the Horites, who lived in the Middle East during the 2nd and 3rd millenniums b.c. and who established the Mitanni kingdom about 1400 b.c.
- iberian — of or relating to Iberia in SW Europe, its inhabitants, or their language.
- icarian — of or like Icarus.
- icetran — An extension of Fortran IV and a component of ICES.
- igraine — the mother of King Arthur.
- in arms — armed and prepared for war
- in care — made the legal responsibility of a local authority by order of a court
- in drag — performer: cross-dressing
- in gear — vehicle: engaged
- in part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- in tray — An in tray is a shallow container used in offices to put letters and documents in before they are dealt with. Compare out tray.
- inboard — located nearer the longitudinal axis or center, as of an airplane: the inboard section of a wing.
- inbreak — a breaking in; invasion
- indraft — an inward flow or current, as of air or water.
- indrawn — reserved; introspective: a quiet, indrawn man.
- inearth — (transitive, chiefly poetic) To put into the earth; inter.
- inertia — inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- infarct — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.