9-letter words containing n, e, i, g
- goniatite — An ammonoid fossil of an early type found chiefly in the Devonian and Carboniferous periods, typically with simple angular suture lines.
- goodiness — the quality of being a goody
- goofiness — ridiculous; silly; wacky; nutty: a goofy little hat.
- goopiness — the quality of being goopy
- goosewing — the weather clew of a square sail, held taut when the lee side of the sail is furled.
- gophering — any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- gorgonise — turn to stone
- gorgonize — to affect as a Gorgon; hypnotize; petrify.
- gossypine — relating to cotton
- gottingen — a city in central Germany.
- governing — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- gradients — Plural form of gradient.
- grainiest — Superlative form of grainy.
- grainless — Without grain.
- grainline — The line of the warp on a piece of fabric.
- granaries — Plural form of granary.
- grandiose — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandsire — a grandfather.
- grandview — a town in W Missouri.
- granitite — a granite rich in biotite.
- granitize — to subject to granitization.
- granivore — Any animal that eats seeds as the main part of its diet.
- granulite — a metamorphic rock composed of granular minerals of uniform size, as quartz, feldspar, or pyroxene, and showing a definite banding.
- granville — Earl of, Carteret, John.
- grapeline — grapnel.
- grapevine — a town in N Texas.
- grapiness — the quality of tasting like a grape
- gratinate — to gratiné.
- gratineed — to bake or broil (food) in au gratin style.
- graveling — small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- gray pine — jack pine.
- green-lit — to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
- greenfish — opaleye.
- greenline — (transitive) To ease access to services (such as banking, insurance, or healthcare) to residents in specific areas.
- greenling — any spiny-finned food fish of the genus Hexagrammos, of North Pacific coasts.
- greenmail — the practice of buying a large block of a company's stock in order to force a rise in stock prices or an offer by the company to repurchase that block of stock at an inflated price to thwart a possible takeover bid.
- greenwich — a borough in SE London, England: located on the prime meridian from which geographic longitude is measured; formerly the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- greenwing — the common teal, Anas crecca
- greetings — A polite word or sign of welcome or recognition.
- gregarian — (obsolete) gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort.
- gregarine — a type of sporozoan parasite that inhabits the digestive and other cavities of various invertebrates and produces cysts filled with spores.
- gregorian — of or relating to any of the popes named Gregory, especially Gregory I or Gregory XIII.
- grenadian — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- grenadier — (in the British army) a member of the first regiment of household infantry (Grenadier Guards)
- grenadine — a syrup made from pomegranate juice.
- grenville — George, 1712–70, British statesman: prime minister 1763–65.
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- grievants — Plural form of grievant.
- griminess — The characteristic or quality of being grimy.
- grindelia — any of various composite plants of the genus Grindelia, comprising the gumweeds.