7-letter words containing r, i, n, g
- grating — a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- graving — to clean and apply a protective composition of tar to (the bottom of a ship).
- graying — of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
- grazing — a touching or rubbing lightly in passing.
- grecian — Greek (especially with reference to ancient Greece).
- greenie — Slang. an amphetamine pill, especially one that is green in color.
- greisen — a hydrothermally altered rock of granitic texture composed chiefly of quartz and mica, common in the tin mines of Europe.
- greking — (obsolete) The break (of day); dawn.
- gremlin — a mischievous invisible being, said by airplane pilots in World War II to cause engine trouble and mechanical difficulties.
- greying — Present participle of grey.
- griffin — a city in W Georgia.
- griffon — griffin1 .
- griming — Present participle of grime.
- grinded — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- grinder — a person or thing that grinds.
- grindle — bowfin.
- gringas — Plural form of gringa.
- gringos — Plural form of gringo.
- grinned — to smile broadly, especially as an indication of pleasure, amusement, or the like.
- grinner — to smile broadly, especially as an indication of pleasure, amusement, or the like.
- griping — Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.
- gripman — a worker on a cable car who operates the grip, which, by grasping or releasing the moving cable, starts or stops the car.
- gripmen — Plural form of gripman.
- griskin — a chop or steak, especially a pork chop.
- grisons — a weasellike carnivore, Galictis vittata, ranging from southern Mexico to Peru, having a grayish-white upper body, a distinctive white stripe across the forehead and ears, and a dark brown face, chest, and legs.
- groined — (of a vault) formed by the intersection of two barrel vaults, usually with plain groins without ribs.
- gronchi — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1887–1978, Italian statesman: president 1955–62.
- groning — Present participle of grone.
- groping — moving or going about clumsily or hesitantly; stumbling.
- growing — becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity: growing discontent among industrial workers.
- grunion — a small, silvery food fish, Leuresthes tenuis, of southern California, that spawns at high tide in wet sand.
- guarani — a member of an Indian people now living principally in Paraguay.
- guarini — Guarino [gwah-ree-naw] /gwɑˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1624–83, Italian architect.
- gunfire — the firing of a gun or guns.
- gurging — Present participle of gurge.
- gurning — (Northern England) alternative spelling of girning.
- gyronic — relating to a gyron
- harding — Chester, 1792–1866, U.S. portrait painter.
- harking — to listen attentively; hearken.
- harling — Present participle of harl.
- harming — Present participle of harm.
- harping — a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
- heiring — a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- herding — a herdsman (usually used in combination): a cowherd; a goatherd; a shepherd.
- herling — (UK, dialect) The young of the sea trout.
- herring — an important food fish, Clupea harengus harengus, found in enormous shoals in the North Atlantic.
- hirings — Plural form of hiring, present participle of 'hire'.
- hirling — a salmon trout
- hording — a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd: a horde of tourists.