9-letter words containing i, r, g
- glare ice — ice having a smooth, glassy surface that reflects sunlight.
- glariness — Quality of being glary; a dazzling brilliancy.
- glaringly — shining with or reflecting a harshly bright or brilliant light.
- glaserite — (mineral) A saline evaporite, consisting of potassium sulphate.
- glimmered — Simple past tense and past participle of glimmer.
- glissader — One who glissades.
- glistered — Simple past tense and past participle of glister.
- glittered — Simple past tense and past participle of glitter.
- glomeruli — Irregular plural form of glomerulus.
- glorified — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- glorifier — Agent noun of glorify; one who glorifies.
- glorifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glorify.
- glorioles — Plural form of gloriole.
- glowering — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
- glyburide — a hypoglycemic substance, C 23 H 28 ClN 3 O 5 S, used orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- glyceride — any of a group of esters obtained from glycerol by the replacement of one, two, or three hydroxyl groups with a fatty acid: the principal constituent of adipose tissue.
- glycerine — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- glycerite — a preparation of a medicinal substance dissolved in or mixed with glycerin.
- gnarliest — gnarled.
- go figure — expression incomprehension
- go for it — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go in for — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- godsister — The daughter of one's godparent.
- goffering — an ornamental plaiting used for frills and borders, as on women's caps.
- goitrogen — any goiter-producing substance, as thiouracil.
- goldbrick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- goldminer — a person who mines gold or works in a gold mine.
- gondolier — a person who rows or poles a gondola.
- gongorism — imitation of the ornate and intricate style of Góngora y Argote.
- good hair — hair showing evidence of some European strain in a person's blood
- gophering — any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- gorgonian — any of numerous alcyonarian corals of the order Gorgonacea, having a usually branching, horny or calcareous skeleton.
- gorgonise — turn to stone
- gorgonize — to affect as a Gorgon; hypnotize; petrify.
- gorilloid — Lb anatomy Resembling (that of) a gorilla.
- goslarite — hydrated zinc sulphate
- gosperism — /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms. See also life.
- gossipers — Plural form of gossiper.
- gossipper — a person who gossips
- governing — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- grabbings — Plural form of grabbing.
- grabbling — Present participle of grabble.
- gracility — The state of being gracefully slender.
- gradating — Present participle of gradate.
- gradation — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- gradients — Plural form of gradient.
- grahamite — an asphaltite with a pitch-black luster.
- grainiest — Superlative form of grainy.
- grainless — Without grain.
- grainline — The line of the warp on a piece of fabric.