gray (4 letters)
gray
8
- Length
- 4 letters
- Scrabble score
- 8 points
- Frequency
- Less common
- Pronunciation
- GRAY
What it means
- verb — make grey
- verb — turn grey
- adjective — of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
- adjective — showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
- adjective — used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
- adjective — intermediate in character or position
- noun — a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
- noun — clothing that is a grey color
- noun — any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
- noun — horse of a light gray or whitish color
- noun — the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad
- noun — English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
- noun — English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
- noun — American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
- noun — United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)