5 Letter Words That Start With GR

grave

Noun : (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.

Noun : (loosely) Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.

Noun : (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.

groan

Noun : A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief.

Noun : A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration, disapproval, or ecstasy.

Noun : (of an object) A low creaking sound from applied pressure or weight.

grasp

Verb : To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.

Verb : To understand.

Verb : To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.

grief

Noun : Suffering, hardship.

Noun : Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.

Noun : (countable) A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.

great

Adjective : Taking much space; large.

Adjective : (of an abstract noun) Much, more than usual.

Adjective : (informal, British) Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths.

grace

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Charming, pleasing qualities.

Noun : (countable) A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.

Noun : (countable, card games) In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.

gruff

Adjective : having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature.

Adjective : hoarse-voiced.

Adjective : hoarse.

group

Noun : A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

Noun : (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

Noun : (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.

gripe

Verb : (intransitive, informal) To complain; to whine.

Verb : (transitive, informal) To annoy or bother.

Verb : (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.

grove

Noun : A small forest.

Noun : A small forest with minimal undergrowth.

Noun : An orchard of fruit trees.

green

Adjective : Of a green hue; with a hue which is of grass or leaves.

Adjective : (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.

Adjective : Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.

graze

Noun : The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.

Noun : A light abrasion; a slight scratch.

Noun : The act of animals feeding from pasture.

growl

Noun : A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.

Noun : (by extension) A similar sound made by a human.

Noun : (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach.

grime

Noun : Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.

Noun : (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.

Verb : To begrime; to cake with dirt.

grind

Verb : (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.

Verb : (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.

Verb : (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.

graft

Noun : (countable) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

Noun : (countable) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

Noun : (surgery, countable) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

grant

Verb : (ditransitive) To give (permission or wish).

Verb : (ditransitive) To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).

Verb : (transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.

gross

Adjective : (of behaviour considered to be wrong) Highly or conspicuously offensive.

Adjective : (of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.

Adjective : (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.

greed

Noun : A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.

Verb : To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire.

grunt

Noun : A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.

Noun : The snorting cry of a pig.

Noun : Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.

grope

Verb : (obsolete) To feel with or use the hands; to handle.

Verb : To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.

Verb : To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.

grand

Adjective : (augmentative) Large, senior (high-ranking), intense, extreme, or exceptional

Adjective : Of a large size or extent; great.

Adjective : Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.

grimy

Adjective : Stained or covered with grime.

Adjective : (music) From the urban musical genre called grime.

Adjective : (slang) Morally corrupt, malicious, vile, or selfish; base or dirty; rotten.

groin

Noun : The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.

Noun : The area adjoining this fold or depression.

Noun : (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults

grape

Noun : (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.

Noun : (countable, uncountable) A woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.

Noun : (countable) Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera; their edibility varies.

grate

Noun : A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.

Noun : A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.

Noun : (historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.

grain

Noun : (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.

Noun : (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.

Noun : (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.

grass

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

Noun : (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

Noun : (uncountable) A lawn.

groom

Noun : A man who is about to marry.

Noun : A person who looks after horses.

Noun : One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department.

gride

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.

Verb : (obsolete, intransitive, of a weapon or sharp object) To travel through something.

Verb : To produce a grinding or scraping sound.

grame

Noun : (obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.

Noun : (obsolete) Sorrow; grief; misery.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.

grade

Noun : A rating.

Noun : (chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.

Noun : A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.

greet

Verb : (transitive) To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing.

Verb : (transitive) To arrive at or reach, or meet.

Verb : (transitive) To accost; to address.

grump

Noun : (informal) A habitually grumpy or complaining person.

Noun : (informal) A grumpy mood.

Verb : (informal, intransitive) To complain.

grail

Noun : The Holy Grail.

Noun : Something eagerly sought or quested for.

Noun : A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.

grith

Noun : (obsolete) Guaranteed security, sanctuary, safe conduct.

Noun : (historical) Security, peace or protection guaranteed in particular instances in Old English law.

Noun : (historical) A place of protection, a sanctuary.

grool

Noun : (informal) Vaginal lubrication derived from sexual arousal.

Noun : Alternative form of gruel [A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.]

grill

Noun : A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.

Noun : The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.

Noun : On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.

grist

Noun : Grain that is to be ground in a mill.

Noun : (obsolete) A group of bees.

Noun : (colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.

grote

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Obsolete spelling of groat. [(chiefly in the plural) Hulled grain, chiefly hulled oats.]

grype

Noun : (obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.

Verb : Obsolete spelling of gripe. [(intransitive, informal) To complain; to whine.]

grebo

Noun : (slang, UK, countable, chiefly West Midlands) A greaser or biker; a member of any alternative subculture, as opposed to a chav or townie.

Noun : (slang, UK, countable) A member of a United Kingdom subculture of the late 1980s and early 1990s, musically affiliated with garage rock and electronica, typically wearing baggy clothes and hair in high ponytails.

Noun : (uncountable) A short-lived subgenre of alternative rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with influences from punk rock, electronic dance music, hip-hop, and psychedelia.

grito

Noun : A Mexican outcry characterized by ululation, used as an expression before a battle cry or ranchera.

grisy

Adjective : (obsolete) Grim, grisly.

Adjective : (obsolete) Grey; grizzled.

greek

Adjective : Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture

Adjective : (figurative, colloquial) Synonym of incomprehensible, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.

Adjective : (US, not comparable) Of or relating to collegiate fraternities, sororities, and/or (uncommon) honor societies.

griot

Noun : A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.

Noun : (cooking) A Haitian dish of fried pork.

grift

Noun : (US, slang) A confidence game or swindle.

Verb : (transitive, US, slang) To obtain illegally, as by con game.

Verb : (intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money illegally.

grown

Adjective : Covered by growth; overgrown.

Adjective : (US) Of a person: adult.

gruel

Noun : A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.

Noun : Punishment

Noun : Something that lacks substance

groat

Noun : (chiefly in the plural) Hulled grain, chiefly hulled oats.

Noun : (archaic or historical) Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.

Noun : A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins.

griff

Noun : A male given name.

Noun : (India) griffin, (white) newcomer

Noun : (obsolete) grasp; reach

grise

Noun : (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Alternative form of grice (a pig) [(now Scotland) A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of pig or boar native to north Britain, now extinct.]

greta

Noun : A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Noun : A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Keswick.

Noun : A river in County Durham, England, which joins the Tees, and which was originally in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

grike

Noun : (chiefly British) A deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants.

grize

Noun : Obsolete form of grise. [(obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.]

groid

Noun : (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Clipping of negroid. [(anthropology, dated, offensive) A person with characteristics of Africans, particularly coiled hair and dark skin.]

graph

Noun : (applied mathematics, statistics) A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers.

Noun : (mathematics) A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1,x_2,…,x_m,y)∈ R ᵐ⁺¹, where y=f(x_1,x_2,…,x_m) for a given function f: R ᵐ→ R . See also Graph of a function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun : (graph theory) A set of vertices (or nodes) connected together by edges; (formally) an ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V. See also Graph (discrete mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

grout

Noun : A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.

Noun : (archaic) Coarse meal; groats.

Noun : (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Dregs, sediment.

grits

Noun : (Western Hemisphere) Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.

Noun : (Canadian politics) The Liberal Party of Canada.

grebe

Noun : Any of several waterbirds in the order Podicipediformes. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.

Noun : A surname.

grady

Noun : A surname from Irish.

Noun : A male given name.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama, United States.

grins

Noun : A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.

Verb : (intransitive) To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.

Verb : (transitive) To express by grinning.

grond

groth

Noun : A surname.

grone

Verb : Obsolete spelling of groan. [To make a groan.]

grook

Noun : A brief, aphoristic poem, often containing irony or paradox.

gravy

Noun : (countable, uncountable) A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.

Noun : A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.

Noun : (Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.

grams

Noun : grandmother

grego

Noun : A type of rough jacket with a hood.

Noun : A surname.

grids

Noun : A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.

Noun : A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.

Noun : A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.

grabs

Verb : (transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).

Verb : To restrain someone; to arrest.

grows

Noun : A surname.

Verb : Alternative form of grue (“shudder with fear”) [(intransitive, archaic) To be frightened; to shudder with fear.]

grads

Noun : A type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this.

Noun : Abbreviation of graduate. [A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.]

Noun : Abbreviation of graduation. [The action or process of graduating and receiving a diploma for completing a course of study (such as from an educational institution).]

gronk

Noun : (Australia, derogatory, informal) An unintelligent and callous person.

Verb : (computing, slang, intransitive) Of a floppy disk drive: to produce mechanical sounds of operation.

Verb : (computing, slang, intransitive, rare) To fail; to crash or go wrong.

grovy

Adjective : Pertaining to or characterised by groves; situated in a grove.

grody

Adjective : (US, informal) Nasty, dirty, disgusting, foul, revolting, yucky, grotesque.

gratz

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A city in Kentucky

Noun : A borough of Pennsylvania

grege

Adjective : Alternative spelling of greige [(textiles) Of clothing, textiles, etc.: neither bleached nor dyed, nor otherwise fully processed; unfinished.]

Noun : Alternative spelling of greige [A colour like that of unbleached or undyed fabric between grey and beige, closely akin to taupe.]

grata

grece

Noun : (obsolete) A flight of stairs.

Noun : (obsolete, in the plural) Steps, stairs.

greit

grund

greif

grete

Noun : Grete or Grethe is a feminine given name, a derivate of Margaret.

gryke

Noun : Alternative form of grike [(chiefly British) A deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants.]

grear

Noun : A surname.

grier

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

gruen

Noun : A surname from German.

gripy

Adjective : Alternative form of gripey [Tending to gripe.]

greal

groop

Noun : (obsolete or UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or small ditch.

Noun : (obsolete or UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.

Noun : (obsolete or UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A pen for cattle; a byre.

gruit

Noun : (brewing) An herbal mixture, used in the flavouring of beer, that preceded the use of hops.

Noun : (colloquial) Any beer made with such a mixture.

grrrl

Noun : (slang) Elongated form of grr.

Noun : A riot grrrl.

griko

Noun : An ethnically Greek people of southern Italy and Sicily, descended from Byzantine and ancient Greek colonies.

Noun : The dialect of Greek used by these people, combining Koine Greek, Byzantine Greek, and various Italian dialects.

griev

Noun : An act or instance of feeling or expressing grief.

growe

Verb : Archaic spelling of grow. [(ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.]

gruft

Noun : (dialect) The particles of soil that are spattered up onto grass by the rain.

gropy

Adjective : (colloquial) Characterised by groping, or sexual touching.

greco

Noun : a common Italian surname, ranking 10th among the most widespread surnames in Italy, and it literally means "Greek".

Noun : an Italian wine grape that may be of Greek origin.

Noun : a district ("quartiere") of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 2 administrative division, located north-east of the city centre.

grume

Noun : A thick semisolid

Noun : A clot (of blood)

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