8-letter words containing r, e, g, i
- gabrieli — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1510–86, Italian organist and composer.
- gaiseric — Genseric.
- gaitered — wearing gaiters
- galeries — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- galerius — full name Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus. ?250–311 ad, Eastern Roman Emperor (305–311): noted for his persecution of Christians
- galleria — a spacious passageway, court, or indoor mall, usually with a vaulted roof and lined with commercial establishments.
- ganglier — Comparative form of gangly.
- ganister — a highly refractory, siliceous rock used to line furnaces.
- gantries — Plural form of gantry.
- gardenia — any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers.
- gardiner — Samuel Rawson [raw-suh n] /ˈrɔ sən/ (Show IPA), 1829–1902, English historian.
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- gas fire — A gas fire is a fire that produces heat by burning gas.
- gasalier — A gas-powered chandelier.
- gaselier — Alt form gasalier.
- gasifier — An apparatus used to perform gasification.
- gasolier — a chandelier furnished with gaslights.
- gaultier — Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). born 1952, French fashion designer
- gavarnie — a waterfall in SW France, in the Pyrenees. 1384 feet (422 meters) high.
- gearings — Plural form of gearing.
- gem iron — a heavy, usually cast-iron oven dish used for baking small cakes (gems)
- gematria — a cabbalistic system of interpretation of the Scriptures by substituting for a particular word another word whose letters give the same numerical sum.
- generics — Plural form of generic.
- generify — (computing) To make generic.
- genetrix — a female progenitor
- genitors — Plural form of genitor.
- geniture — birth; generation.
- genseric — a.d. c390–477, king of the Vandals, conqueror in northern Africa and Italy.
- gentrice — gentility; high birth.
- gentries — Plural form of gentry.
- gentrify — to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- george i — 1660–1727, king of England 1714–27.
- georgian — of or relating to the period of British history from the accession of George I in 1714 to the death of George IV in 1830, or the four kings named George who reigned successively during this period.
- georgics — Plural form of georgic.
- georgina — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- geranial — a pale yellow, water-insoluble, liquid aldehyde, C 10 H 16 O, having a strong lemonlike odor, consisting in natural form of two isomers (citral a or geranial and citral b or neral) usually obtained from the oils of lemon and orange or synthetically: used chiefly in perfumery, flavoring, and the synthesis of vitamin A.
- geraniol — a colorless or pale-yellow terpene alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, with a geraniumlike odor, found in rose oil, soluble in alcohol and ether, insoluble in water: used in perfumes and flavors.
- geranium — any of numerous plants of the genus Geranium, which comprises the crane's-bills.
- gerardia — any plant of the genus Gerardia
- germaine — a female given name.
- germania — an ancient region in central Europe, N of the Danube River.
- germanic — of or relating to the Teutons or their languages.
- germiest — Superlative form of germy.
- germinal — being in the earliest stage of development: germinal ideas.
- germline — Those cells of an individual that have genetic material that could be passed to offspring; the source of gametes.
- geronimo — (Goyathlay) 1829–1909, American Apache Indian chief.
- gerontic — geriatric.
- geropiga — a grape syrup used to sweeten inferior port wines
- gershwin — George, 1898–1937, U.S. composer.
- geschrei — a yell; shout.