6-letter words containing a, e, g, r
- meagre — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- megara — a city in ancient Greece: the chief city of Megaris.
- mirage — an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
- murage — a toll or tax for the repair or construction of the walls or fortifications of a town.
- 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.
- nagger — nag1 (def 5).
- nergal — (in Akkadian mythology) the god ruling, with Ereshkigal, the world of the dead.
- oarage — (archaic) The act of using oars; rowing.
- onager — a wild ass, Equus hemionus, of southwestern Asia.
- orange — methyl orange.
- orgeat — a syrup or drink made originally from barley but later from almonds, prepared with sugar and an extract of orange flowers.
- ortega — Daniel, full surname Ortega Saavedra. born 1945, Nicaraguan politician and former resistance leader; president of Nicaragua (1985–90) and from 2007
- parage — lineage, family, or birth
- parget — any of various plasters or roughcasts for covering walls or other surfaces, especially a mortar of lime, hair, and cow dung for lining chimney flues.
- prague — a republic in central Europe: includes the regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and part of Silesia; formerly part of Czechoslovakia; independent since 1993. 30,449 sq. mi. (78,864 sq. km). Capital: Prague.
- preage — the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- ragged — clothed in tattered garments: a ragged old man.
- raggle — a groove cut in masonry to receive flashing.
- ralegh — Sir Walter1552?-1618; Eng. statesman, explorer, & poet; beheaded
- ramage — a descent group composed of individuals descended from one ancestor through any combination of male and female links.
- ranged — working or grazing on a range: range horses; range animals like steer and sheep.
- ranger — forest ranger.
- ravage — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- reagan — Nancy Davis (Anne Francis Robbins Davis) born 1921, U.S. First Lady 1981–89 (wife of Ronald Reagan).
- reagin — Also called Wassermann antibody. an antibody formed in response to syphilis and reactive with cardiolipin in various blood tests for the disease.
- recage — a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
- reflag — to register (a foreign ship) so that it flies the flag of the registering nation and thereby comes under the latter's protection.
- regain — to get again; recover: to regain one's health.
- regale — to entertain lavishly or agreeably; delight.
- regard — to look upon or think of with a particular feeling: to regard a person with favor.
- regear — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- reggae — a style of Jamaican popular music blending blues, calypso, and rock-'n'-roll, characterized by a strong syncopated rhythm and lyrics of social protest.
- regina — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
- regnal — of or relating to a sovereign, sovereignty, or reign: the second regnal year of Louis XIV.
- regula — (in a Doric entablature) a fillet, continuing a triglyph beneath the taenia, from which guttae are suspended.
- rehang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- rhagae — an ancient city of Media, on the site of present-day Tehran, Iran.
- rivage — a bank, shore, or coast.
- rugate — wrinkle; rugose.
- sagger — a box or case made of refractory baked clay in which the finer ceramic wares are enclosed and protected while baking.
- sanger — Frederick, 1918–2013, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1958.
- sauger — a freshwater, North American pikeperch, Stizostedion canadense.
- seggar — sagger.
- segura — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Pancho Segura"Segoo") born 1921, Ecuadorian tennis player.
- serang — Ceram.
- sorage — the first year in hawk's life
- sparge — a sprinkling.
- stager — a person of experience in some profession, way of life, etc.
- swager — a tool for bending cold metal to a required shape.
- tagger — a piece or strip of strong paper, plastic, metal, leather, etc., for attaching by one end to something as a mark or label: The price is on the tag.