8-letter words containing ger
- deringer — an early short-barreled pocket pistol.
- digerati — People with expertise or professional involvement in information technology.
- diverger — One who diverges.
- divulger — One who divulges something.
- doggerel — comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure. rude; crude; poor.
- dojigger — (informal) A thing whose name is not known; a whatsit or doohickey.
- dowagers — Plural form of dowager.
- draggers — Plural form of dragger.
- dredgers — Plural form of dredger.
- drudgery — menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
- edgerton — Harold Eugene ("Doc") 1903–90, U.S. electrical engineer and photographer.
- endanger — Put (someone or something) at risk or in danger.
- enhunger — to cause to be hungry
- enlarger — An apparatus for enlarging or reducing negatives or positives.
- erigeron — A widely distributed herbaceous plant of the daisy family, which is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental.
- erlanger — Joseph. 1874–1965, US physiologist. He shared a Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1944) with Gasser for their work on the electrical signs of nervous activity
- étranger — a foreigner
- expunger — One who expunges.
- fingered — having fingers, especially of a specified kind or number (often used in combination): a five-fingered glove.
- fingerer — Agent noun of finger; one who fingers, especially in the sense of sexual stimulation.
- flingers — Plural form of flinger.
- floggers — Plural form of flogger.
- foragers — food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.
- fringers — Plural form of fringer.
- froggery — a collection of frogs
- geologer — (dated) A geologist.
- 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
- gerberas — Plural form of gerbera.
- 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.
- germano- — German, German and
- germfree — free of germs; sterile: This kind of research should be done in a germfree laboratory.
- germiest — Superlative form of germy.
- germinal — being in the earliest stage of development: germinal ideas.
- germless — a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- 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.
- geronto- — indicating old age
- geropiga — a grape syrup used to sweeten inferior port wines
- gershwin — George, 1898–1937, U.S. composer.
- gertrude — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “spear” and “strength.”.
- gingered — Spiced with ginger.
- gingerly — with great care or caution; warily.
- gingerol — (organic compound) Any of several isomeric compounds responsible for the heat of ginger.
- gorgerin — the neckline portion of a capital of a column, or a feature forming the junction between a shaft and its capital.