6-letter words containing a, d, g
- jagged — having ragged notches, points, or teeth; zigzag: the jagged edge of a saw; a jagged wound.
- kodagu — a former province in SW India; now part of Karnataka state. 1593 sq. mi. (4126 sq. km).
- lading — the act of lading.
- ladoga — Lake, a lake in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of St. Petersburg: largest lake in Europe. 7000 sq. mi. (18,000 sq. km).
- lagged — to fail to maintain a desired pace or to keep up; fall or stay behind: After five minutes of hard running, some of them began to lag.
- lapdog — a small pet dog that can easily be held in the lap.
- ligand — Biochemistry. a molecule, as an antibody, hormone, or drug, that binds to a receptor.
- madag. — Madagascar
- madang — a seaport on the N coast of New Guinea, in Papua New Guinea.
- maggid — (especially in Poland and Russia) a wandering Jewish preacher whose sermons contained religious and moral instruction and words of comfort and hope.
- manged — /mahnjd/ [probably from the French "manger" or Italian "mangiare", to eat; perhaps influenced by English "mange", "mangy"] Refers to anything that is mangled or damaged, usually beyond repair. "The disk was manged after the electrical storm." Compare mung.
- nadger — (jargon) /nad'jr/ [Great Britain] To modify software or hardware in a hidden manner, generally so that it conforms better to some format. For instance, an assembly code string printing subroutine that takes its string argument from the instruction stream would be called like this: jsr print:"Hello world" The print routine would use the saved instruction pointer (its return address) to find its argument and would have to "nadger" it so that the processor returns to the instruction after the string.
- nagged — Simple past tense and past participle of nag.
- ngadju — a member of any of several Dayak tribes of southern Borneo.
- ogaden — an arid region in SE Ethiopia.
- ogdoad — the number eight.
- padang — a seaport in W central Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- padnag — an ambling horse
- pagoda — (in India, Burma, China, etc.) a temple or sacred building, usually a pyramidlike tower and typically having upward-curving roofs over the individual stories.
- ragged — clothed in tattered garments: a ragged old man.
- ranged — working or grazing on a range: range horses; range animals like steer and sheep.
- regard — to look upon or think of with a particular feeling: to regard a person with favor.
- sagged — to sink or bend downward by weight or pressure, especially in the middle: The roof sags.
- seadog — fogbow.
- staged — adapted for or produced on the stage.
- tanged — a sharp ringing or twanging sound; clang.
- tigard — a city in NW Oregon, near Portland.
- togaed — wearing a toga
- uganda — an independent state in E Africa, between the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British protectorate. 91,065 sq. mi. (241,068 sq. km). Capital: Kampala.
- unaged — having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old: an aged man; an aged tree.
- unglad — not glad
- updrag — to drag up or upwards
- utgard — a home of the Jotuns, outside Midgard and Asgard: probably synonymous with Jotunheim.
- wading — to walk in water, when partially immersed: He wasn't swimming, he was wading.
- wagged — to move from side to side, forward and backward, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly: a dog wagging its tail.
- wanged — Simple past tense and past participle of wang.
- wardog — a devoted or aggressive warrior
- yigdal — a liturgical prayer or hymn expressing the faith of Israel in God, usually sung responsively by the cantor and congregation at the close of the evening service on the Sabbath and festivals.
- zagged — Simple past tense and past participle of zag.