9-letter words starting with gr
- greenwood — a city in W South Carolina.
- greetings — A polite word or sign of welcome or recognition.
- gregarian — (obsolete) gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort.
- gregarine — a type of sporozoan parasite that inhabits the digestive and other cavities of various invertebrates and produces cysts filled with spores.
- gregorian — of or relating to any of the popes named Gregory, especially Gregory I or Gregory XIII.
- gregory i — Saint ("Gregory the Great") a.d. c540–604, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 590–604.
- gregory v — (Bruno of Carinthia) died a.d. 999, German ecclesiastic: pope 996–999.
- gregory x — (Teobaldo Visconti) c1210–76, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1271–76.
- gremolata — A paste of capers, parsley, lemon zest, olives and olive oil served as an accompaniment to meat or fish.
- grenadian — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- grenadier — (in the British army) a member of the first regiment of household infantry (Grenadier Guards)
- grenadine — a syrup made from pomegranate juice.
- grenville — George, 1712–70, British statesman: prime minister 1763–65.
- grevillea — An evergreen tree or shrub bearing conspicuous flowers that lack petals, most kinds of which are native to Australia.
- grewhound — a greyhound
- grey area — If you refer to something as a grey area, you mean that it is unclear, for example because nobody is sure how to deal with it or who is responsible for it, or it falls between two separate categories of things.
- grey body — a body that emits radiation in constant proportion to the corresponding black-body radiation
- grey seal — a greyish species of earless seal, Halichoerus grypus
- grey vote — the body of elderly people's votes, or elderly people regarded collectively as voters
- grey-wave — denoting a company or an investment that is potentially profitable but is unlikely to fulfil expectations before the investor has grey hair
- greybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
- greyhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
- greystone — a grey igneous rock of volcanic origin
- greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- greywater — Alternative spelling of gray water.
- grid bias — the potential difference applied between a grid and the cathode of a vacuum tube.
- grid leak — a high-resistance device that permits excessive charges on the grid to leak off or escape.
- grid road — a municipal road that follows a grid line established by the original survey of the area.
- griddling — a frying pan with a handle and a slightly raised edge, for cooking pancakes, bacon, etc., over direct heat.
- gridirons — Plural form of gridiron.
- grieshoch — a bed of embers, especially of a peat or moss fire.
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- grievants — Plural form of grievant.
- grievious — (chiefly, dialectal) Alternative form of grievous.
- grill pan — a wide, shallow metal vessel used to contain food that is being cooked under a grill
- grillages — Plural form of grillage.
- grillings — Plural form of grilling.
- grillroom — a restaurant or dining room, as in a hotel, that specializes in serving grilled meat and fish.
- grillwork — material so formed as to function as or to have the appearance of a grille.
- grimacing — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- grimalkin — a cat.
- griminess — The characteristic or quality of being grimy.
- grind out — extinguish: a cigarette, etc.
- grindelia — any of various composite plants of the genus Grindelia, comprising the gumweeds.
- grindings — Plural form of grinding.
- grip tape — adhesive tape used for friction
- gris-gris — grigri.
- grisaille — monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
- grisettes — Plural form of grisette.