9-letter words containing n, o, g, r
- garotting — to execute by the garrote.
- garrisons — Plural form of garrison.
- 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.
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- gear knob — a gear lever
- generator — a machine that converts one form of energy into another, especially mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
- genocider — One who commits genocide.
- geocorona — a belt of ionized hydrogen surrounding the earth at the outer limit of the exosphere.
- geomancer — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- georgiana — a female given name.
- geraldton — a seaport in W Australia.
- gerfalcon — gyrfalcon.
- germanous — containing bivalent germanium.
- germiston — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- get round — cajole
- get wrong — be mistaken about sth
- gingerous — (of hair) reddish
- ginormous — extremely large; huge.
- giorgione — (Giorgione de Castelfranco; Giorgio Barbarelli) 1478?–1511, Italian painter.
- girandole — a rotating and radiating firework.
- girondist — French History. a member of a political party (1791–93) of moderate republicans whose leaders were deputies from the department of Gironde.
- gittarone — an acoustic bass guitar
- glamorgan — a historic county in SE Wales, now part of Mid, South, and West Glamorgan.
- glen more — valley across N Scotland, traversed by the Caledonian Canal: 60 mi (97 km) long
- glen rock — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- glendower — Owen, 1359?–1416? Welsh rebel against Henry IV of England.
- glowering — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
- go around — an act or instance of going around something, as a circle, course, or traffic pattern, and returning to the starting point.
- go hungry — If people go hungry, they do not have enough food to eat.
- go in for — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go-around — an act or instance of going around something, as a circle, course, or traffic pattern, and returning to the starting point.
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- goffering — an ornamental plaiting used for frills and borders, as on women's caps.
- goitrogen — any goiter-producing substance, as thiouracil.
- goldarned — goddamn (used as a euphemism in expressions of anger, disgust, surprise, etc.).
- goldenrod — any composite plant of the genus Solidago, most species of which bear numerous small, yellow flower heads.
- goldminer — a person who mines gold or works in a gold mine.
- goldurned — goldarn.
- goncharov — Ivan Alexandrovich [ih-vahn al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-,, ahy-vuh n;; Russian ee-vahn uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /ɪˈvɑn ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-,, ˈaɪ vən;; Russian iˈvɑn ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1812–91, Russian novelist.
- gondolier — a person who rows or poles a gondola.
- gongorism — imitation of the ornate and intricate style of Góngora y Argote.
- gonophore — an asexually produced bud in hydrozoans that gives rise to the equivalent of a medusa.
- gonorrhea — a contagious, purulent inflammation of the urethra or the vagina, caused by the gonococcus.
- good turn — a helpful and friendly act; good deed; favour
- goosander — a common merganser, Mergus merganser, of Eurasia and North America.
- gophering — any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- gorehound — an enthusiast of gory horror films
- gorgonian — any of numerous alcyonarian corals of the order Gorgonacea, having a usually branching, horny or calcareous skeleton.
- gorgonise — turn to stone