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8-letter words containing gro

  • grow fat — If you say that a person or organization has grown fat on something, you mean that they have become very rich as a result of it.
  • grow out — hairstyle: allow to lengthen
  • growable — able to be cultivated or grown
  • growings — Plural form of growing.
  • growlers — Plural form of growler.
  • growlery — a place to retreat to, alone, when ill-humoured
  • growling — Producing a growl.
  • grown-up — having reached the age of maturity.
  • grownups — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
  • in-group — a narrow exclusive group; clique.
  • ingroove — to cut a groove into
  • inground — sunk into the ground; built into the ground
  • ingrowth — growth inward.
  • ligroine — a flammable mixture of hydrocarbons that boils at from 20°C to 135°C, obtained from petroleum by distillation and used as a solvent.
  • logrolls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of logroll.
  • mangrove — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rhizophora, the species of which are mostly low trees growing in marshes or tidal shores, noted for their interlacing above-ground adventitious roots.
  • negroism — the doctrine or advocacy of equal rights for black people.
  • negroize — to cause to include black people or to have the qualities or characteristics of black people: efforts to Negroize the team.
  • nigrosin — any of the class of deep blue or black dyes obtained by the oxidation of aniline, used as coloring agents in inks and shoe polishes and for dyeing leather, wood, textiles, and furs.
  • outgross — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
  • outgroup — (systematics) In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.
  • outgrown — to grow too large for: to outgrow one's clothes.
  • outgrows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgrow.
  • overgrow — to grow over; cover with a growth of something.
  • regroove — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
  • reground — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
  • regrowth — the act or process, or a manner of growing; development; gradual increase.
  • shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
  • sly grog — bootleg liquor.
  • sly-grog — bootleg liquor.
  • subgroup — a subordinate group; a division of a group.
  • unground — not crushed
  • upgrowth — the process of growing up; development: the upgrowth of nuclear science.
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