8-letter words containing a, d, g
- body bag — A body bag is a specially designed large plastic bag which is used to carry a dead body away, for example when someone has been killed in a battle or an accident.
- bog deal — pine wood found preserved in peat bogs
- bogarted — to take an unfair share of (something); keep for oneself instead of sharing: Are you gonna bogart that joint all night?
- bondager — someone who performs bondservice; a bondman
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- braiding — braids collectively
- branding — The branding of a product is the presentation of it to the public in a way that makes it easy for people to recognize or identify.
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- bridgman — Percy Williams. 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- cabbaged — Chiefly British. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
- caddying — Present participle of caddy.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- candling — a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light.
- candying — any of a variety of confections made with sugar, syrup, etc., often combined with chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.
- cant dog — cant hook
- carangid — any marine percoid fish of the family Carangidae, having a compressed body and deeply forked tail. The group includes the jacks, horse mackerel, pompano, and pilot fish
- cardigan — A cardigan is a knitted woollen sweater that you can fasten at the front with buttons or a zip.
- caudling — Present participle of caudle.
- cga card — a computer card for the display of graphics in colour introduced by IBM in 1981
- claddagh — Irish ring
- cladding — Cladding is a covering of tiles, wooden boards, or other material that is fixed to the outside of a building to protect it against bad weather or to make it look more attractive.
- cloudage — a mass of clouds
- collaged — a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- cradling — a framework of iron or wood, esp as used in the construction of a ceiling
- dabbling — the fact of being involved in an activity in a frivolous or superficial way
- daddling — Present participle of daddle.
- dagenham — part of the Greater London borough of Barking and Dagenham: engineering and chemicals
- dagestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- daggered — a short, swordlike weapon with a pointed blade and a handle, used for stabbing.
- daggling — Present participle of daggle.
- dago red — a cheap red wine, especially a jug wine of Italian origin.
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- daguerre — Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)
- dahlgren — John Adelphus Bernard, 1809–70, U.S. naval officer and inventor.
- dairying — the business of producing, processing, and selling dairy products
- dalglish — Kenny, born 1951, Scottish footballer: a striker, he played for Celtic (1968–77) and for Liverpool (1977–89): manager of Liverpool (1985–91; 2011–12), of Blackburn Rovers (1991–95), Newcastle United (1997–98), and Celtic (2000): Scotland's most-capped footballer (102 appearances, 1971–86)
- dallying — Present participle of dally.
- damagers — Plural form of damager.
- damaging — causing or capable of causing damages; harmful; injurious.
- dandling — Present participle of dandle.
- danegeld — the tax first levied in the late 9th century in Anglo-Saxon England to provide protection money for or to finance forces to oppose Viking invaders
- dangered — Simple past tense and past participle of danger.
- danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- dangling — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- dappling — Present participle of dapple.
- daringly — In a daring manner; boldly; courageously; fearlessly; impudently.
- dark age — If you refer to a period in the history of a society as a dark age, you think that it is characterized by a lack of knowledge and progress.