8-letter words that end in g
- gleening — Present participle of gleen.
- glinting — a tiny, quick flash of light.
- gloaming — twilight; dusk.
- gloating — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- globbing — Present participle of glob.
- glomming — to steal.
- glomping — Present participle of glomp.
- glooming — total or partial darkness; dimness.
- glorying — Present participle of glory.
- glossing — an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
- glugging — to make the sound of liquid pouring from a bottle.
- glutting — Present participle of glut.
- gnarling — a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.
- gnashing — to grind or strike (the teeth) together, especially in rage or pain.
- gnatling — a small gnat
- go along — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- goatling — a young goat
- gobbling — Present participle of gobble.
- god-king — a human sovereign believed to be a deity or to have godlike attributes.
- godendag — a medieval Flemish club having a spike at the end.
- goggling — Present participle of goggle.
- gold bug — one who buys, or advocates buying, gold as protection against an anticipated collapse in the value of currency, stocks, etc.
- goldberg — Arthur Joseph, 1908–90, U.S. jurist, statesman, and diplomat: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962–65; ambassador to the U.N. 1965–68.
- golf bag — a bag, usually made of canvas, for carrying golf clubs and golf balls.
- golliwog — a grotesque black doll.
- gollywog — Alternative form of golliwog.
- good egg — a person who is pleasant, agreeable, or trustworthy.
- googling — Present participle of google.
- goon bag — the plastic bladder inside a box of (usually cheap) wine
- goosegog — gooseberry.
- goteborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, on the Kattegat.
- grab bag — a container or receptacle from which a person at a party or the like draws a gift without knowing what it is.
- grab-bag — a container or receptacle from which a person at a party or the like draws a gift without knowing what it is.
- grabbing — Present participle of grab.
- grafting — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
- graining — a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- granddog — (humorous) A dog owned by the children of someone old enough to be a grandparent; a dog that has a similar role to a grandchild.
- granting — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- graphing — Present participle of graph.
- grasping — greedy; avaricious: a sly, grasping man.
- grassing — any plant of the family Gramineae, having jointed stems, sheathing leaves, and seedlike grains. Compare grass family.
- grayling — any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus, related to the trouts but having a longer and higher, brilliantly colored dorsal fin.
- greasing — Present participle of grease.
- greaving — Present participle of greave.
- greeking — greek
- greenbug — a pale-green aphid, Schizaphis graminum, of North America, destructive of wheat, other small grains, and alfalfa.
- greening — a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an effect of light with a wavelength between 500 and 570 nm; found in nature as the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.
- greeting — the act or words of a person who greets.
- grepping — Present participle of grep.