8-letter words containing a, e, r, u, g
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- guardage — the state of being in the care of a guardian
- guarneri — Giuseppe Antonio [joo-zep-pe ahn-taw-nyaw] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Joseph Guarnerius) 1683–1745, Italian violinmaker.
- guaviare — a river in central and E Colombia, flowing E to the Orinoco River. 650 (1046 km) long.
- guerilla — a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- guisarme — a shafted weapon having as a head a curved, double-edged blade with a beak at the back.
- gunlayer — a person who aims a ship's gun
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- gunpaper — a type of paper treated with nitric acid so that it has a composition similar to that of guncotton.
- gutteral — Misspelling of guttural.
- harangue — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
- laguerre — Edmond-Nicolas [ed-mawn-nee-kaw-lah] /ɛd mɔ̃ ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1834–86, French mathematician.
- lartigue — Jacques Henri [zhahk ahn-ree] /ʒɑk ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1894–1986, French photographer and painter.
- laughers — Plural form of laugher.
- laughter — the action or sound of laughing.
- leaguers — Plural form of leaguer.
- legatura — (music) A tie or brace; a syncopation.
- ligature — the act of binding or tying up: The ligature of the artery was done with skill.
- megahurt — (computer slang, rare) megahertz.
- musgrave — Thea. born 1928, Scottish composer, noted esp for her operas
- naufrage — (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin.
- outargue — to outdo or defeat in arguing: That man could outargue the devil himself.
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outraged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrage.
- outrages — Plural form of outrage.
- outrange — to have a longer or greater range than.
- pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- puggaree — pugree.
- quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
- re-argue — to argue or debate (a legal case, issue, etc) again
- redargue — to prove wrong or invalid; disprove; refute.
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- retaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- roughage — rough or coarse material.
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office
- rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
- rugelach — a fruit-and-nut pastry shaped like a croissant
- rummager — to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
- runagate — a fugitive or runaway.
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- squirage — squires considered as a whole group
- subgrade — the prepared earth surface on which a pavement or the ballast of a railroad track is placed or upon which the foundation of a structure is built.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.