5-letter words containing o, r, g
- gorge — to swallow, especially greedily.
- gorki — Also, Gorky. Maxim [mak-sim;; Russian muh-ksyeem] /ˈmæk sɪm;; Russian mʌˈksyim/ (Show IPA), (Aleksey Maksimovich Pyeshkov) 1868–1936, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist.
- gorky — (informal) Awkward or strange.
- gormy — gormless
- gorse — any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- gorsy — Where gorse grows.
- goter — Obsolete form of gutter.
- gotra — a Hindu clan tracing its paternal lineage from a common ancestor, usually a saint or sage.
- goura — any of several species of large, crested ground pigeons found in New Guinea
- gourd — the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria (white-flowered gourd or bottle gourd) whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo (yellow-flowered gourd) used ornamentally. Compare gourd family.
- gower — John, 1325?–1408, English poet.
- grebo — (slang, UK, predominantly West Midlands) A greaser or biker; a member of any alternative subculture, as opposed to a chav or townie.
- greco — (Domenikos Theotocopoulos) 1541–1614, Spanish painter, born in Crete.
- grego — a short, hooded coat of thick, coarse fabric, originally worn in the eastern Mediterranean countries.
- griot — a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc.
- groan — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- groat — a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662.
- grody — repulsive; disgusting; nauseating.
- grofe — Ferde [fur-dee] /ˈfɜr di/ (Show IPA), (Ferdinand Rudolf von Grofé) 1892–1972, U.S. composer.
- groff — GNU roff. See also nroff, troff. Version 1.07 by James J. Clark <[email protected]>. FTP groff-1.07.tar.z from a GNU archive site.
- groid — (derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- groin — Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- groks — to understand thoroughly and intuitively.
- groma — an instrument having a cruciform wooden frame with a plumb line at the end of each arm, used for laying out lines at right angles to existing lines.
- grone — Obsolete spelling of groan.
- gronk — /gronk/ Popularised by Johnny Hart's comic strip "B.C." but the word apparently predates that. 1. To clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More severe than "to frob" (sense 2). 2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash, or similarly disable. 3. The sound made by many 3.5-inch diskette drives. In particular, the microfloppies on a Commodore Amiga go "grink, gronk".
- groof — the face or the front of the body
- groom — a bridegroom.
- groop — (obsolete, or, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or small ditch.
- groot — Huig [hœikh] /hœɪx/ (Show IPA), Hugo Grotius.
- grope — to feel about with the hands; feel one's way: I had to grope around in the darkness before I found the light switch.
- gross — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- grosz — an aluminum coin of Poland, the 100th part of a zloty.
- grote — George, 1794–1871, English historian.
- group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- grout — a thin, coarse mortar poured into various narrow cavities, as masonry joints or rock fissures, to fill them and consolidate the adjoining objects into a solid mass.
- grove — Sir George, 1820–1900, English musicologist.
- grovy — Pertaining to or characterised by groves; situated in a grove.
- growe — Archaic spelling of grow.
- growl — to utter a deep guttural sound of anger or hostility: The dog growled at the mail carrier.
- grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
- grows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grow.
- guiro — a South American musical instrument consisting of a hollow gourd with serrated surface that is scraped with a stick.
- gyro- — indicating rotating or gyrating motion
- gyron — a subordinary having the form of a triangle, usually equal to half a quarter of the escutcheon, with its apex at the fess point.
- gyros — Alternative form of gyro.
- krogh — (Schack) Auguste (Steenberg) [shahk ou-goo st steen-barg] /ˈʃɑk ˈaʊ gʊst ˈstin bærg/ (Show IPA), 1874–1949, Danish physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1920.
- largo — a largo movement.
- margo — (anatomy) border, margin.
- modgr — Modern Greek