8-letter words containing a, d, g, e, s
- gassendi — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1592–1655, French philosopher and scientist.
- gaudiest — Superlative form of gaudy.
- gestated — Simple past tense and past participle of gestate.
- gesualdo — Don Carlo [dawn kahr-law] /dɔn ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), Prince of Venosa [ve-naw-zah] /vɛˈnɔ zɑ/ (Show IPA), c1560–1613, Italian composer.
- gladdens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gladden.
- gladdest — Superlative form of glad.
- gladness — feeling joy or pleasure; delighted; pleased: glad about the good news; glad that you are here.
- gladsome — giving or causing joy; delightful.
- glanders — a contagious disease chiefly of horses and mules but communicable to humans, caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas mallei and characterized by swellings beneath the jaw and a profuse mucous discharge from the nostrils.
- glissade — a skillful glide over snow or ice in descending a mountain, as on skis or a toboggan.
- goadster — a goadsman
- godheads — Plural form of godhead.
- graduses — Plural form of gradus.
- grandees — Plural form of grandee.
- grandest — impressive in size, appearance, or general effect: grand mountain scenery.
- grenades — Plural form of grenade.
- griselda — a woman of exemplary meekness and patience.
- hagrides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hagride.
- headings — Plural form of heading.
- hogshead — a large cask, especially one containing from 63 to 140 gallons (238 to 530 liters).
- hostaged — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- jigsawed — Simple past tense and past participle of jigsaw.
- leadings — Plural form of leading.
- massaged — Simple past tense and past participle of massage.
- megadose — a dose many times the usual amount, as of a vitamin or drug.
- messaged — Simple past tense and past participle of message.
- misgrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- nerdgasm — a feeling of intense excitement felt by someone considered to be a nerd, esp. when caused by something relating to his or her leisure interests such as a new piece of technology, computer game, science fiction film, etc.
- orgasmed — Simple past tense and past participle of orgasm.
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- red sage — a showy, rank-smelling shrub, Lantana camara, of tropical America, having yellow flowers that turn orange or red.
- rhagades — linear cracks or scars found in the skin at the angles of the nose and mouth which are one of the later signs of congenital syphilis
- sardegna — a large island in the Mediterranean, W of Italy: with small nearby islands it comprises a department of Italy. 9301 sq. mi. (24,090 sq. km).
- savegard — safe conduct, protection
- saw edge — the serrated edge of a saw
- scragged — a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- seal dog — an iron hook used for dragging seal carcasses over the ice.
- seladang — the gaur.
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- signaled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- slugabed — a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.
- spangled — Something that is spangled is covered with small shiny objects.
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- subgrade — the prepared earth surface on which a pavement or the ballast of a railroad track is placed or upon which the foundation of a structure is built.
- unstaged — adapted for or produced on the stage.
- visegrad — a town in N Hungary, NW of Budapest on the Danube: site of summit in 1991 of the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
- windages — Plural form of windage.
- wordages — Plural form of wordage.
- yardages — Plural form of yardage.