8-letter words containing o, r, a
- great go — great (def 20).
- great on — enthusiastic about
- groaners — Plural form of groaner.
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- groaning — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- grosbeak — any of various finches having a thick, conical bill.
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- grow bag — a plastic bag containing a sufficient amount of a sterile growing medium and nutrients to enable a plant, such as a tomato or pepper, to be grown to full size in it, usually for one season only
- grow fat — If you say that a person or organization has grown fat on something, you mean that they have become very rich as a result of it.
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- guacharo — a nocturnal, fruit-eating, South American bird, Steatornis caripensis, the young of which yield an oil derived from their fat.
- guarddog — a dog that guards a property or person
- gyration — the act of gyrating; circular or spiral motion; revolution; rotation; whirling.
- gyratory — moving in a circle or spiral; gyrating.
- gyroidal — having a spiral arrangement.
- gyrostat — a modified gyroscope, consisting of a rotating wheel pivoted within a rigid case.
- habanero — an extremely pungent small pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense, used in cookery.
- hackwork — writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.
- hair oil — hairstyling product
- hairwork — the art of producing articles made of hair
- hairworm — any small, slender worm of the family Trichostrongylidae, parasitic in the alimentary canals of various animals.
- half-rod — a unit of length equal to 2.75 yards or 8.25 feet (2.52 meters).
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- haloform — A compound derived from methane by substituting three hydrogen atoms for halogen atoms, e.g., chloroform.
- halosere — a plant community that originates and develops in conditions of high salinity
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- handiron — andiron.
- handover — the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc.: a handover of occupied territory.
- handroll — a Japanese dish consisting of a large cone of dried seaweed filled with cold rice and other ingredients, eaten with the fingers rather than chopsticks
- handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
- hangover — the disagreeable physical aftereffects of drunkenness, such as a headache or stomach disorder, usually felt several hours after cessation of drinking.
- hannover — a member of the royal family that ruled Great Britain under that name from 1714 to 1901.
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- harbored — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harborer — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harbours — Plural form of harbour.
- hard bop — an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- hard top — A hard top is a vehicle that has a permanent rigid roof.
- hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
- hardbody — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hardboil — Alternative form of hard-boil.
- hardboot — a horse-racing enthusiast.
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardcore — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardnose — a person who is tough and uncompromising
- hardrock — the original form of rock-'n'-roll, basically dependent on a consistently loud and strong beat.
- hardtops — Plural form of hardtop.
- hardwood — the hard, compact wood or timber of various trees, as the oak, cherry, maple, or mahogany.