For a change of pace, a word that starts with “gry-”
In Wilbur Smith’s novel “The Sunbird,” one of the head honchos of the African city of Opet was the “Gry-lion,” which, IIRC (it’s been over 20 years) was a ceremonial name referring to a saber-tooth cat or something like that.
Hmmm, Opet, Opar??? Naw.
Three, of the top of my head (I’m sure there are many more, although probably more obscure): gryke, gryphon and grysbok.
P.S.: Opet, need I remind you, is a contraction of Opal Ket.
Of course, the word “gry” also starts with “g-r-y”.
What would Brian Boitano do / If he was here right now /
He’d make a plan and he’d follow through / That’s what Brian Boitano would do.
I dunno about starting with “gry-”, but what about ending with “-gry”? Apparently there’s three in the English language, ‘angry’, ‘hungry’, and something else. Does anybody know the last one?
“War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who’s left.”
oh boy.
:::runs home to put his snow-pants on:::
let’s just stay still and be quiet. maybe it will go away by itself.
what is essential is invisible to the eye -the fox
Run away, Utinni! Run! Run for your life!
Changing my sig, because Wally said to, and I really like Wally, and I’ll do anything he says, anytime he says to.
Oh just give the guy a link, ya big babies.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_251.html
This is one of those questions people keep asking here, Utinni. You might want to read the archive before posting here.
Marge: Your father is… resting.
Bart: “Resting” hung over? “Resting” got fired? Help me out here.
I do believe Utinni! was being facetious. One can’t have been on the board since June of '99 and not know about the 'gry question.
I just don’t think Utinni! is that much of a Newbie.
Chrome Toaster
The only two words in the Scrabble dictionary that aree good fitting this criteria is:
GRYPHON
GRYPHONS
Thank you…
Yer pal,
Satan
gryllotalpa, the mole-cricket.
grypanian, (of a bird’s bill) with the culmen nearly straight, bent at the end in an arched curve, acuminate, generally incised at the sides.
gryph, 1. a griffin; 2. a vulture.
gryphite, a fossil oyster-shell of the genus Gryphaea.
grysande, greyish.
grysbok, a small South African antelope.
grysomyle, some gold-coloured fruit … either an apricot or a quince.
Please don’t ask me what any of these words mean, I only looked them up.
Hmm. And to think I was just using “Gry-” as a segue into another “lost city” connection.
For those of you who don’t know, Opar is the name of the “lost city” in the Tarzan novels.
Kor is the name of the lost city in Haggard’s “She” novels.
Opet is the lost city in “The Sunbird.”
And Bridgeport is the lost city in southern Connecticut.
Uke
How about “Gry Nuhs Shock?”
Note: to decipher this, pretend you’re Steve Irwin and you’re talking about deep-sea diving in search of a particular breed of Carcharadon. 
–Da Cap’n
“Playin’ solitaire 'til dawn
With a deck of fifty-one.”