8-letter words containing t, r, o, g
- ethogram — a description of an animal's behaviour
- faggotry — (pejorative, slang) The quality of being a faggot (homosexual).
- figworts — Plural form of figwort.
- fogfruit — a wildflower of the Verbena family
- footgear — covering for the feet, as shoes, boots, etc.
- foregift — an advance payment or premium paid by a tenant on taking or renewing a lease.
- foreguts — Plural form of foregut.
- fotograf — Eye dialect of photograph.
- frog-bit — an aquatic, floating plant, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, of Eurasia, having thick, roundish, spongy leaves.
- frontage — the front of a building or lot.
- fronting — the foremost part or surface of anything.
- frosting — a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
- frothing — an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
- frottage — a technique in the visual arts of obtaining textural effects or images by rubbing lead, chalk, charcoal, etc., over paper laid on a granular or relieflike surface. Compare rubbing (def 2).
- garoting — to execute by the garrote.
- garotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garotter — garrote.
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garroter — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garrotes — Plural form of garrote.
- garrotte — to execute by the garrote.
- gastero- — gastro-
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- gayomart — the first Aryan and the sixth creation of Ahura Mazda.
- genitors — Plural form of genitor.
- geolatry — the worship of the earth
- geometer — geometrician.
- geometry — the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space from their defining conditions by means of certain assumed properties of space.
- geotherm — a line or surface within or on the earth connecting points of equal temperature
- gerontic — geriatric.
- geronto- — indicating old age
- get over — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- go after — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go forth — military: set out
- go short — If you go short of something, especially food, you do not have as much of it as you want or need.
- go-train — a lightweight passenger train providing rapid surface transport between a city center and the suburbs and from suburb to suburb.
- goadster — a goadsman
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- goitrous — pertaining to or affected with goiter.
- goncourt — Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- gongster — a person who strikes a gong
- gore-tex — a type of synthetic fabric which is waterproof yet allows the wearer's skin to breathe; used for sportswear
- gossaert — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), Mabuse, Jan.
- goteborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, on the Kattegat.
- gourmets — Plural form of gourmet.
- gourmont — Remy de [ruh-mee duh] /rəˈmi də/ (Show IPA), 1858–1915, French critic and novelist.
- graffito — Archaeology. an ancient drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface.
- grantors — Plural form of grantor.
- gratious — Obsolete form of gracious.
- grattoir — a flaked stone implement, usually Upper Paleolithic, retouched at the end and used probably for working wood or cleaning hides; scraper.