6-letter words containing a, e, g, n
- glazen — glazed
- gleans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glean.
- glenda — a female given name.
- gnawed — to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
- gnawer — A rodent or other similar type of animal that gnaws.
- gonave — Also called Gonâve Island. an island in the Gulf of Gonaïves, in W Haiti. 287 sq. mi. (743 sq. km).
- graben — a portion of the earth's crust, bounded on at least two sides by faults, that has dropped downward in relation to adjacent portions.
- graine — the eggs of the silkworm
- grande — a town in NE Oregon.
- grange — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
- graven — a past participle of grave3 .
- gretna — a city in SE Louisiana, near New Orleans.
- groane — Obsolete spelling of groan.
- guinea — a coastal region in W Africa, extending from the Gambia River to the Gabon estuary.
- hanged — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hanger — a shoulder-shaped frame with a hook at the top, usually of wire, wood, or plastic, for draping and hanging a garment when not in use.
- hegang — a city in Heilongjiang province, NE China.
- hwange — a town in W Zimbabwe: coal mines. Pop: 42 581 (1992)
- incage — encage.
- ingate — gate1 (def 15).
- innage — the quantity of goods remaining in a container when received after shipment. Compare outage (def 4).
- jangle — to produce a harsh, discordant sound, as two comparatively small, thin, or hollow pieces of metal hitting together: The charms on her bracelet jangle as she moves.
- keegan — Kevin. born 1951, English footballer and manager; his clubs included Liverpool, Hamburg, and Newcastle United whom he also managed; played for England (1972–82), scoring 21 goals in 63 games, and managed them (1999–2000); European Footballer of the Year (1978, 1979)
- lagena — an outpocketing of the saccule of birds, reptiles, and bony fishes corresponding to the cochlear duct of mammals.
- laggen — Usually, laggins. the staves at the bottom of a barrel, cask, or other hooped vessel.
- lagune — lagoon (def 2).
- langer — Susanne (Knauth) [knout] /knaʊt/ (Show IPA), 1895–1985, U.S. philosopher.
- langue — the linguistic system shared by the members of a community (contrasted with parole).
- largen — (UK) To enlarge.
- legman — a person employed to transact business outside an office, especially on behalf of one whose responsibilities require his or her presence in the office.
- lehnga — A long formal or ceremonial skirt worn by Indian women.
- lengua — a member of a group of Indian peoples living in the Gran Chaco area of Paraguay.
- linage — the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
- magnes — a magnetic iron ore
- magnet — a body, as a piece of iron or steel, that possesses the property of attracting certain substances, as iron.
- manage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- manege — the art of training and riding horses.
- 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.
- mangel — A beet of a variety with a large root, cultivated as feed for livestock.
- manger — Praesepe.
- mangey — having, caused by, or like the mange.
- mangle — to smooth or press with a mangle.
- meghan — a female given name.
- menage — a domestic establishment; household.
- 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.
- nagger — nag1 (def 5).
- negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- nergal — (in Akkadian mythology) the god ruling, with Ereshkigal, the world of the dead.
- netlag — (networking) A condition that occurs when the delays in the IRC network, a MUD connection, a telnet connection, or any other networked interactive system, become severe enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish contact, causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays of up to a minute. (Note that this term has nothing to do with mainstream "jet lag").