9-letter words containing r, i, n, g
- grizzling — gray or partly gray hair.
- groningen — a city in the NE Netherlands.
- gropingly — In a groping manner; blindly.
- grosgrain — a heavy, corded ribbon or cloth of silk or rayon.
- grouching — Present participle of grouch.
- grounding — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- groupings — Plural form of grouping.
- groveling — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- grow into — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- growingly — becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity: growing discontent among industrial workers.
- grubbling — Present participle of grubble.
- gruelling — exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe: the grueling Boston marathon.
- grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- grundyism — a prudish adherence to conventionality, especially in personal behavior.
- grunitsky — Nicolas, 1913–69, African statesman: president of the Republic of Togo 1963–67.
- gruntling — A young hog or pig.
- guard pin — (in a lever escapement) a pin on the lever, meeting the safety roller in such a way as to prevent the lever from overbanking.
- guardians — Plural form of guardian.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- guinevere — Arthurian Romance. wife of King Arthur and mistress of Lancelot.
- gum print — a print made by the gum bichromate process.
- gum resin — a plant exudation consisting of a mixture of gum and resin.
- gun crime — offences involving firearms
- gurneyite — a supporter of Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), an English Quaker, who, on a preaching tour of America, advocated Christian evangelical principles.
- guttering — a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
- gyrations — Plural form of gyration.
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- hagridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- hagriding — Present participle of hagride.
- haltering — Present participle of halter.
- hammering — The sound or action of hammering something.
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- hamstring — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
- hang fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- hangaring — a shed or shelter.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- harassing — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- harboring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard sign — the Cyrillic letter Ъ, ъ as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is not palatalized: not in official use since 1918.
- hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- harlingen — a city in S Texas.
- harmdoing — the doing of harm
- harrowing — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- hazarding — Present participle of hazard.
- heartling — a term of endearment, little heart
- hectoring — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.