10-letter words starting with gr
- gravelling — Present participle of gravel.
- gravenhage — a Dutch name of The Hague.
- graveolent — That has a rank smell.
- gravesides — Plural form of graveside.
- gravesites — Plural form of gravesite.
- gravestone — a stone marking a grave, usually giving the name, date of death, etc., of the person buried there.
- gravettian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an advanced Upper Paleolithic industry of Europe dating to c25,000 b.c. and characterized by straight, blunt-backed blades.
- graveyards — Plural form of graveyard.
- gravimeter — an instrument for measuring the specific gravity of a solid or liquid.
- gravimetry — the measurement of weight or density.
- gravitated — Simple past tense and past participle of gravitate.
- gravitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gravitate.
- gravitonic — Relating to gravitons.
- gravy boat — a small dish, often boat-shaped, for serving gravy or sauce.
- gray birch — a small, bushy birch, Betula populifolia, of stony or sandy areas of the eastern U.S., having grayish-white bark and triangular leaves.
- gray friar — a Franciscan friar: so called from the traditional color of the habit worn by the order.
- gray power — the organized influence exerted by elderly people as a group, especially for social or political purposes or ends.
- gray scale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- gray skate — a skate, Raja batis, of coastal seas off Great Britain.
- gray trout — a common weakfish, Cynoscion regalis, inhabiting Atlantic and Gulf coastal waters of the U.S.
- gray water — dirty water from sinks, showers, bathtubs, washing machines, and the like, that can be recycled, as for use in flushing toilets.
- gray whale — a grayish-black whalebone whale, Eschrichtius robustus, of the North Pacific, growing to a length of 50 feet (15.2 meters): now rare.
- gray's inn — See under Inns of Court (def 1).
- gray-scale — (spelling) US spelling of "grey-scale".
- graybeards — Plural form of graybeard.
- grays peak — a mountain in N central Colorado; highest point in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,270 feet (4352 meters).
- graywether — sarsen.
- grease cup — oilcup.
- grease gun — a hand-operated pump for greasing bearings under pressure.
- greaseball — Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Mediterranean or Latin American descent.
- greaseband — a band of greasy or sticky material wrapped around a tree trunk in order to prevent insects from ascending the tree
- greaseless — Without fats or oils.
- greasewood — a shrub, Sarcobatus vermiculatus, of the amaranth family, growing in alkaline regions of the western U.S., containing a small amount of oil.
- greasiness — smeared, covered, or soiled with grease.
- great ajax — Ajax (def 1).
- great bear — the constellation Ursa Major.
- great belt — a strait in Denmark, between Zealand and Funen islands, linking the Kattegat with the Baltic
- great bend — a city in central Kansas.
- great dane — one of a breed of large, powerful, shorthaired dogs ranging in color from fawn to brindle, blue, black, or white with black spots.
- great deal — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
- great guns — Informal. in a relentlessly energetic or successful manner: The new president has the company going great guns.
- great helm — helm2 (def 1).
- great neck — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- great ouse — Ouse (def 2).
- great rift — a group of large dark clouds in the Milky Way between the constellations Cygnus and Sagittarius.
- great room — a large, open room in a house, especially a living room that doubles as a family room or dining room.
- great sark — the larger northern section of the island of Sark in the Channel Islands, connected to Little Sark by a narrow isthmus
- great seal — the principal seal of a government or state.
- great skua — Also called bonxie. any of several large brown gull-like predatory birds of the genus Catharacta, related to jaegers, especially C. skua (great skua) of colder waters of both northern and southern seas.
- great wall — ancient wall in China