8-letter words containing o, u
- grievous — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- griseous — gray; pearl-gray.
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- gross up — to increase (net income) to its pretax value
- grouched — Simple past tense and past participle of grouch.
- grouches — Plural form of grouch.
- grounded — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- grounder — ground ball.
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- groupers — Plural form of grouper.
- groupies — Plural form of groupie.
- grouping — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- groupism — the tendency to conform to the general thinking and behavior of a group.
- groupist — a follower of a group
- grouplet — a small group
- groupoid — an algebraic system closed under a binary operation. Also called monoid. Compare group (def 9), semigroup.
- grousers — Plural form of grouser.
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- grouting — Grout, especially when hardened.
- grow out — hairstyle: allow to lengthen
- grown-up — having reached the age of maturity.
- grownups — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
- grub hoe — a heavy hoe for digging up roots, stumps, etc.
- grubworm — grub (def 1).
- gruesome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- gruiform — of or relating to birds of the order Gruiformes, including cranes, rails, and coots.
- grunions — Plural form of grunion.
- guacharo — a nocturnal, fruit-eating, South American bird, Steatornis caripensis, the young of which yield an oil derived from their fat.
- guaiacol — a slightly yellowish, aromatic, crystalline substance, C 7 H 8 O 2 , resembling creosote and usually obtained from guaiacum resin: used in medicine chiefly as an expectorant and local anesthetic.
- guanacos — Plural form of guanaco.
- guandong — a former territory in NE China at the tip of Liaodong peninsula; leased to Japan 1905–45.
- guarddog — a dog that guards a property or person
- guaynabo — a city in N Puerto Rico, SE of Bayamón.
- gudgeons — Plural form of gudgeon.
- guerdons — Plural form of guerdon.
- gueridon — a small table or stand, as for holding a candelabrum.
- guerrero — a state in S Mexico. 24,885 sq. mi. (64,452 sq. km). Capital: Chilpancingo.
- guilford — a town in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- gulfport — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- gulosity — gluttony or greediness.
- gumboils — Plural form of gumboil.
- gumboots — a rubber boot.
- gumbotil — a sticky clay formed by the thorough weathering of glacial drift, the thickness of the clay furnishing means for comparing relative lengths of interglacial ages.
- gumdrops — Plural form of gumdrop.
- gummosis — The copious production and exudation of gum by a diseased or damaged tree, especially as a symptom of a disease of fruit trees.
- gumphion — a funeral banner
- gumption — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
- gumshoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gumshoe.
- gumshoes — Plural form of gumshoe.
- gun down — shoot dead