9-letter words containing i, r, g, a, t
- fathering — a male parent.
- featuring — a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic: Tall buildings were a new feature on the skyline.
- fertigate — to fertilize and irrigate at the same time, by adding fertilizers to the water supply
- figurante — a ballerina who does not perform solo.
- figurants — Plural form of figurant.
- fogramity — a fogey or antiquated thing
- formating — Misspelling of formatting.
- fortilage — (obsolete) A little fort; a blockhouse.
- fragility — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- fratching — a quarrel; argument; dispute.
- frigatoon — a Venetian sailing ship with a square stern
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- fumigator — a person or thing that fumigates.
- galbraith — John Kenneth, 1908–2006, U.S. economist, born in Canada.
- gallerist — The owner or operator of an art gallery.
- gannister — ganister
- garagiste — a small-scale entrepreneurial wine-maker, originally from the Bordeaux region of France, esp one who does not adhere to the traditions of wine-making
- garniture — something that garnishes; decoration; adornment.
- garotting — to execute by the garrote.
- garroting — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garrulity — the quality of being garrulous; talkativeness; loquacity.
- gartering — Present participle of garter.
- gastrique — A syrupy reduction of vinegar (or wine) and sugar.
- gastritis — inflammation of the stomach, especially of its mucous membrane.
- gathering — a drawing together; contraction.
- gauleiter — the leader or chief official of a political district under Nazi control.
- gearshift — shift lever.
- gearstick — The lever used to change gear in a vehicle.
- geriatric — of or relating to geriatrics, old age, or aged persons.
- gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
- germanist — a specialist in the study of German culture, literature, or linguistics.
- germanite — a mineral consisting of a complex copper arsenic sulphide containing germanium, gallium, iron, zinc, and lead: an ore of germanium and gallium
- germinant — beginning to grow or develop; germinating.
- germinate — to begin to grow or develop.
- ghastlier — Comparative form of ghastly.
- gibraltar — a British crown colony comprising a fortress and seaport located on a narrow promontory near the S tip of Spain. 1.875 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- gift card — gift voucher in plastic card form
- gift-wrap — to wrap (something), as a package, with decorative paper, ribbon, etc., for presentation as a gift.
- gigahertz — one billion hertz. Abbreviation: GHz.
- gigaliter — Alternative spelling of gigalitre.
- gigalitre — A unit of volume equivalent to 109 litres (one billion [British billion] liters). Symbol: Gl.
- gigameter — Alternative spelling of gigametre.
- gigametre — (chiefly, International, British, Canada) A distance of 1,000,000 kilometres.
- ginastera — Alberto [ahl-ber-taw] /ɑlˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1916–83, Argentine composer.
- gittarone — an acoustic bass guitar
- gladiator — (in ancient Rome) a person, often a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and compelled to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators.
- glaserite — (mineral) A saline evaporite, consisting of potassium sulphate.
- gnarliest — gnarled.
- goslarite — hydrated zinc sulphate