8-letter words containing gr
- grignard — (François Auguste) Victor [frahn-swa oh-gyst veek-tawr] /frɑ̃ˈswa oʊˈgüst vikˈtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1871–1935, French organic chemist: Nobel Prize 1912.
- grillade — a dish or serving of broiled or grilled meat.
- grillage — a framework of crossing beams used for spreading heavy loads over large areas.
- grillers — Plural form of griller.
- grillery — a grill; grillroom.
- grilling — Present participle of grill.
- grillion — an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount
- grim dig — an obdurate soldier
- grimaced — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- grimaces — Make a grimace.
- grimaldi — Joseph, 1779–1837, English actor, mime, and clown.
- grimdark — (fandom) Having a gloomy, dystopian atmosphere.
- grimhild — (in the Volsunga Saga) a sorceress, the wife of Gjuki and the mother of Gudrun and Gunnar. She gave Sigurd a potion to make him forget Brynhild so that he would marry Gudrun.
- grimiest — Superlative form of grimy.
- grimmest — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- grimness — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- grimoire — a manual of magic or witchcraft used by witches and sorcerers.
- grinches — Plural form of grinch.
- grind in — to make (a conical valve) fit its seating by grinding them together in the presence of an abrasive paste
- grind on — If you say that something grinds on, you disapprove of the fact that it continues to happen in the same way for a long time.
- grinders — Plural form of grinder.
- grindery — a workshop for grinding edge tools.
- grinding — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- grinning — to smile broadly, especially as an indication of pleasure, amusement, or the like.
- gripenet — [IBM] A wry (and thoroughly unofficial) name for IBM's internal VNET system, deriving from its common use by IBMers to voice pointed criticism of IBM management that would be taboo in more formal channels.
- grippers — Plural form of gripper.
- gripping — holding the attention or interest intensely; fascinating; enthralling: a gripping play; a gripping book.
- gripsack — a traveling bag; grip.
- griptape — a rough tape for sticking to a surface to provide a greater grip
- gris-nez — Cape, a cape in N France, near Calais: closest point in France to Great Britain.
- griselda — a woman of exemplary meekness and patience.
- griseous — gray; pearl-gray.
- grisette — a young French workingwoman.
- grislier — Comparative form of grisly.
- grissini — Thin, crisp Italian breadsticks.
- grissino — Italian breadstick
- gristing — grain to be ground.
- griswold — Erwin Nathaniel, 1904–1994, U.S. lawyer and educator: dean of Harvard University Law School 1950–67.
- gritrock — Gritstone.
- gritters — Plural form of gritter.
- grittily — In a gritty way.
- gritting — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- grizzled — gray; grayish; devoid of hue.
- grizzler — to complain; whimper; whine.
- grizzles — Plural form of grizzle.
- groaners — Plural form of groaner.
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- groaning — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- grockles — Plural form of grockle.