7-letter words containing o, r, g, n
- gronked — 1. Broken. "The teletype scanner was gronked, so we took the system down." 2. Of people, the condition of feeling very tired or (less commonly) sick. "I've been chasing that bug for 17 hours now and I am thoroughly gronked!" Compare broken, which means about the same as gronk used of hardware, but connotes depression or mental/emotional problems in people.
- groping — moving or going about clumsily or hesitantly; stumbling.
- grounde — Obsolete spelling of ground.
- grounds — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- grow on — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- growing — becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity: growing discontent among industrial workers.
- grownup — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
- groynes — Plural form of groyne.
- grunion — a small, silvery food fish, Leuresthes tenuis, of southern California, that spawns at high tide in wet sand.
- gryphon — a fabled monster, usually having the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion.
- guerdon — a reward, recompense, or requital.
- gun for — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- gunport — an aperture, as in a protective wall or the side of a ship, through which a gun can be aimed and fired.
- gunroom — A room used for storing sporting guns in a house.
- gyronic — relating to a gyron
- gyronny — divided into a number of gyrons, usually eight: gyronny of eight.
- hagborn — born of a hag or witch.
- hording — a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd: a horde of tourists.
- hornbag — a promiscuous woman
- horndog — A man with strong sexual desires.
- horning — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- horsing — Present participle of horse.
- ignitor — Alternative spelling of igniter.
- ignored — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- ignorer — One who ignores.
- ignores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ignore.
- ingross — Archaic form of engross.
- ingroup — (systematics) In cladistics, the monophyletic group that includes all taxa of interest to the current study.
- ingrown — having grown into the flesh: an ingrown toenail.
- invigor — (obsolete) To invigorate.
- ironing — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- jargons — a colorless to smoky gem variety of zircon.
- jargony — the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.
- jargoon — A variety of zircon.
- karengo — an edible Pacific seaweed, Porphyra columbina
- kerogen — the bituminous matter in oil shale, from which shale oil is obtained by heating and distillation.
- langour — Misspelling of languor.
- langreo — a city in N Spain.
- languor — lack of energy or vitality; sluggishness.
- leghorn — English name of Livorno.
- ligroin — a flammable mixture of hydrocarbons that boils at from 20°C to 135°C, obtained from petroleum by distillation and used as a solvent.
- logrono — a city in N Spain.
- longers — Plural form of longer.
- lording — lord.
- lorgnon — an eyeglass or a pair of eyeglasses.
- lounger — a person or thing that lounges.
- louring — lowering.
- marengo — a village in Piedmont, in NW Italy: Napoleon defeated the Austrians 1800.
- megaron — a building or semi-independent unit of a building, generally used as a living apartment and typically having a square or broadly rectangular principal chamber with a porch, often of columns in antis, and sometimes an antichamber or other small compartments.
- mongers — Plural form of monger.