8-letter words starting with gr
- 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.
- groening — Matt(hew). born 1954, US cartoonist and writer, creator and producer of The Simpsons television series from 1989
- groggery — a slightly disreputable barroom.
- groggily — staggering, as from exhaustion or blows: a boxer groggy from his opponent's hard left jab.
- grogshop — a saloon or barroom, especially a cheap one.
- groining — Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- grokking — to understand thoroughly and intuitively.
- grommets — Plural form of grommet.
- gromwell — any of various often hairy plants of the genus Lithospermum, of the borage family, usually bearing white or yellowish flowers and smooth, white, stony nutlets.
- groomers — Plural form of groomer.
- grooming — a bridegroom.