8-letter words containing o, r, i, g, n
- gorgerin — the neckline portion of a capital of a column, or a feature forming the junction between a shaft and its capital.
- goriness — covered or stained with gore; bloody.
- graviton — the theoretical quantum of gravitation, usually assumed to be an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of two.
- gridiron — a football field.
- grierson — John. 1898–1972, Scottish film director. He coined the noun documentary, of which genre his Industrial Britain (1931) and Song of Ceylon (1934) are notable examples
- griffons — Plural form of griffon.
- grillion — an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount
- grind on — If you say that something grinds on, you disapprove of the fact that it continues to happen in the same way for a long time.
- grissino — Italian breadstick
- groaning — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- groening — Matt(hew). born 1954, US cartoonist and writer, creator and producer of The Simpsons television series from 1989
- groining — Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- grokking — to understand thoroughly and intuitively.
- grooming — a bridegroom.
- grooving — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
- grossing — 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.
- grouping — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- grouting — Grout, especially when hardened.
- growings — Plural form of growing.
- growling — Producing a growl.
- grunions — Plural form of grunion.
- gueridon — a small table or stand, as for holding a candelabrum.
- gyration — the act of gyrating; circular or spiral motion; revolution; rotation; whirling.
- highborn — of high rank by birth.
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- homering — Present participle of homer.
- honoring — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- ignitron — a cathode-arc vacuum tube with an auxiliary electrode projecting into a pool of mercury: it conducts current when the anode is positive.
- ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- ignorers — Plural form of ignorer.
- ignoring — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- in-group — a narrow exclusive group; clique.
- ingroove — to cut a groove into
- inground — sunk into the ground; built into the ground
- ingrowth — growth inward.
- iron age — the period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron.
- kopfring — a metal ring welded to the nose of a bomb to reduce its penetration in earth or water.
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- leg iron — a shackle for a prisoner's leg
- ligroine — a flammable mixture of hydrocarbons that boils at from 20°C to 135°C, obtained from petroleum by distillation and used as a solvent.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- lordling — a minor, unimportant, or petty lord.
- louvring — to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
- lowering — comparative of low1 .
- majoring — a commissioned military officer ranking next below a lieutenant colonel and next above a captain.
- minoring — lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two: a minor share.
- moorings — the act of a person or thing that moors.