8-letter words containing a, g, b
- grab bar — a bar attached to a wall near a bathtub or shower to provide a handgrip for a person who is bathing.
- grab-bag — a container or receptacle from which a person at a party or the like draws a gift without knowing what it is.
- grabbers — Plural form of grabber.
- grabbing — Present participle of grab.
- grabbled — Simple past tense and past participle of grabble.
- grabbler — One who grabbles.
- gradable — capable of being graded.
- gradably — In a gradable manner.
- grayback — any of various marine and aquatic animals that are dark gray above and light-colored or white below, as the gray whale, the alewife, certain whitefish, and certain sandpipers.
- grazable — Suitable for grazing by animals.
- greyback — grayback.
- grosbeak — any of various finches having a thick, conical bill.
- grow bag — a plastic bag containing a sufficient amount of a sterile growing medium and nutrients to enable a plant, such as a tomato or pepper, to be grown to full size in it, usually for one season only
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- grub saw — a handsaw for cutting stone.
- guaynabo — a city in N Puerto Rico, SE of Bayamón.
- guidable — Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counselled.
- gullable — easily deceived or cheated.
- gum band — a rubber band.
- gumballs — Plural form of gumball.
- gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
- gustable — Having a taste; capable of being tasted.
- gw-basic — (language) An early version of MS-BASIC.
- gynobase — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- habiting — Present participle of habit.
- habsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hagberry — Prunus padus, a species of cherry native to northern Europe and northern Asia, the bird cherry.
- handbags — a bag or box of leather, fabric, plastic, or the like, held in the hand or carried by means of a handle or strap, commonly used by women for holding money, toilet articles, small purchases, etc.
- hangable — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hangbird — a bird that builds a hanging nest, especially the Baltimore oriole.
- hapsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- headbang — To engage in headbanging, the vigorous movement of the head in time to music.
- herbaged — covered with grass or herbage
- high bar — a bar fixed in a position parallel to the floor or ground, for use in chinning and other exercises.
- highball — a drink of whiskey mixed with club soda or ginger ale and served with ice in a tall glass.
- hogbacks — Plural form of hogback.
- huggable — evoking a desire to hug close; inviting a close embrace; cuddly: a huggable little baby.
- ibogaine — an alkaloid, C 20 H 26 N 2 O, obtained from an African shrub, Tabernanthe iboga, having antidepressant and hallucinogenic properties.
- id badge — a badge that serves to identify the person wearing it
- imagable — Alternative form of imageable.
- jig back — an inclined cable tramway with two cars that are connected in such a way that as one goes up the other comes down.
- jigaboos — Plural form of jigaboo.
- jingbang — (colloquial, chiefly, Scotland) thing, lot, shebang.
- jug band — a small group of performers who play chiefly blues or folk music on makeshift or very simple instruments, as washboards, harmonicas, kazoos, and empty jugs, the latter being played by blowing across the openings.
- labeling — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- lace bug — any of several bugs of the family Tingidae, characterized by a lacy pattern of ridges on the head, thorax, and wings, and feeding on the leaves of oak, birch, sycamore, etc.
- ladybugs — Plural form of ladybug.
- lag bolt — lag screw
- lambling — a small lamb