8-letter words containing a, d, g
- angrboda — a giantess who was the mother of Loki's children, Fenrir and Hel, and also of the Midgard serpent.
- anguiped — having snakes for feet or legs
- anregend — Stimulating, inspiring.
- antidrug — (of a person, group or initiative) discouraging illegal drug use
- arcading — An arrangement of arcades.
- arguedas — Alcides [ahl-see-th es] /ɑlˈsi ðɛs/ (Show IPA), 1879–1946, Bolivian author, sociologist, and statesman.
- arguendo — (legal) for the sake of argument.
- argufied — Simple past tense and past participle of argufy.
- arguidos — Plural form of arguido.
- armguard — a band of leather or other material worn about the wrist or lower part of the arm for protection and support.
- arranged — If you say how things are arranged, you are talking about their position in relation to each other or to something else.
- assigned — Simple past tense and past participle of assign.
- assuaged — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- at grade — on the same level
- auditing — the act of inspecting, correcting, and certifying (accounts, etc)
- averaged — Simple past tense and past participle of average.
- avogadro — Amedeo (ameˈdɛːo), Conte di Quaregna. 1776–1856, Italian physicist, noted for his work on gases
- avoiding — Present participle of avoid.
- awarding — Present participle of award.
- awninged — sheltered by or covered with an awning
- badgered — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badgerer — One who badgers.
- badgerly — resembling a badger
- badigeon — a composition for patching surface defects in carpentry or masonry.
- badinage — Badinage is humorous or light-hearted conversation that often involves teasing someone.
- badoglio — Pietro (ˈpjetro). 1871–1956, Italian marshal; premier (1943–44) following Mussolini's downfall: arranged an armistice with the Allies (1943)
- bag lady — A bag lady is a homeless woman who carries her possessions in shopping bags.
- bandaged — Simple past tense and past participle of bandage.
- bandager — someone who bandages
- bandages — Plural form of bandage.
- bandoeng — Bandung.
- bandying — to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- barraged — Simple past tense and past participle of barrage.
- beadings — Plural form of beading.
- bearding — the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- bedaggle — to soil the bottom of (garments) by trailing through dirt
- bedeguar — a moss-like growth found on rosebushes, caused by a reaction by the bush to the egg-laying process of the gall wasp or gallfly
- beggared — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- belgrade — the capital of Serbia, in the E part at the confluence of the Danube and Sava Rivers: became the capital of Serbia in 1878, of Yugoslavia in 1929, and later of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006). Pop: 1 280 639 (2002)
- big band — A big band is a large group of musicians who play jazz or dance music. Big bands were especially popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.
- big data — Big data is extremely large amounts of information that can only be used with special computers.
- big deal — If you say that something is a big deal, you mean that it is important or significant in some way.
- big head — If you describe someone as a big head, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.
- big idea — any plan or proposal that is grandiose, impractical, and usually unsolicited: You're always coming around here with your big ideas.
- big road — a main road or highway.
- bigarade — a Seville orange
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- blindage — (esp formerly) a protective screen or structure, as over a trench
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.