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.

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.

Verb : To make a groan.

grasp

Verb : To understand.

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

Noun : Understanding.

grief

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.

Noun : Suffering, hardship.

great

Adjective : (informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.

Adjective : Important, consequential.

Adjective : (applied to persons) Of much talent or achievements.

grace

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

Noun : (uncountable) Elegant movement; elegance of movement; balance or poise.

Noun : (uncountable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God; unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification, or for resisting sin.

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 : A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

Verb : (transitive) To put together to form a group.

gripe

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

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

Noun : A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.

grove

Noun : A small forest.

Noun : A small forest with minimal undergrowth.

Noun : An orchard of fruit trees.

green

Noun : The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.

Noun : (politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

Noun : (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.

graze

Noun : The act of animals feeding from pasture.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

Verb : (transitive) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

growl

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

Verb : (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.

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

grime

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

Verb : To begrime; to cake with dirt.

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.

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

Noun : (surgery) 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 an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.

Noun : The total amount (of goods, money, etc) before taxes, expenses, exceptions, tares, or similar deductions are subtracted.

Adjective : (informal, Canada, US, Australia) Causing disgust.

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 : (US, military slang) An infantry soldier.

grope

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

Verb : To intentionally and inappropriately touch or rub against another person, in such a manner as to make the contact appear accidental, for the purpose of one's sexual gratification.

Noun : (informal) An act of groping, especially sexually.

grand

Adjective : Of a large size or extent; great.

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

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

grimy

Adjective : Stained or covered with grime.

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

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

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 : (euphemistic) The genitals.

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

Verb : (transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.

Verb : (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.

Verb : (by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.

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 : (uncountable) A lawn.

Noun : (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.

groom

Noun : A man who is about to marry.

Noun : A person who looks after horses.

Verb : To attend to one's appearance and clothing.

gride

Verb : To produce a grinding or scraping sound.

Noun : A harsh grating sound.

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

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

Noun : (Canada, US, Philippines, education) A level of primary and secondary education.

Noun : A rating.

greet

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

Verb : (transitive) To accost; to address.

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

grump

Verb : (informal, intransitive) To be grumpy.

Verb : (informal, intransitive) To complain.

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

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.

Verb : (transitive) To grind in a mill.

Noun : (ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.

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) 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.

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

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.

Noun : The language spoken by people of Greece, particularly, depending on context, Ancient Greek or Modern Greek.

Noun : (countable) A person from Greece or of Greek descent.

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

Verb : (intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means.

grown

Adjective : (US) Of a person: adult.

Adjective : Covered by growth; overgrown.

gruel

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

Noun : Something that lacks substance.

Noun : Punishment.

groat

Noun : Any unit of currency worth four pence.

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

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

griff

Noun : A male given name.

Noun : (India) griffin, (white) newcomer

Noun : (colloquial, slang) marijuana.

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, ethnic slur) 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.

Verb : (transitive) To insert mortar between tiles.

Verb : (transitive) To affix with mortar.

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 family Podicipedidae of the order Podicipediformes. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.

Noun : A surname.

grady

Noun : A male given name.

Noun : A surname from Irish.

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

grins

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

Noun : A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal 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 : (uncountable, chiefly Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta.

grams

Noun : grandmother

grego

Noun : A type of rough jacket with a hood.

Noun : A surname.

grids

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

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

Noun : (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).

grabs

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

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

Verb : (informal) To quickly collect, retrieve, or take.

grows

Noun : A surname.

Verb : Alternative form of grue (“shudder with fear”). [(intransitive, archaic except Northern England, Scotland) To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.]

grads

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

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

Noun : Clipping 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 city in Kentucky.

Noun : A borough of Pennsylvania.

Noun : A surname.

grege

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

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

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 pen for cattle; a byre.

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 trench or small ditch.

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 : A riot grrrl.

Noun : (slang) Elongated form of grr.

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

Adjective : Feeling or showing sorrow or distress due to loss, especially the death of someone.

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 : (UK, 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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