8-letter words containing a, g, d, i
- sandling — a sand eel
- scalding — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- shadings — a slight variation or difference of color, character, etc.
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- signaled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- sogdiana — a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.
- solidago — any plant of the chiefly American genus Solidago, which includes the goldenrods: family Asteraceae (composites)
- spalding — Albert, 1888–1953, U.S. violinist.
- standing — rank or status, especially with respect to social, economic, or personal position, reputation, etc.: He had little standing in the community.
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- tightwad — a close-fisted or stingy person.
- tigridia — any plant of the bulbous genus Tigridia, native to subtropical and tropical America, esp T. pavonia, the tiger flower or peacock tiger flower, grown for its large strikingly marked red, white, or yellow concave flowers: family Iridaceae
- titograd — former name (1945–92) of Podgorica.
- toadying — an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
- undaring — lacking a sense of adventure
- unfading — not liable to fade in colour
- visegrad — a town in N Hungary, NW of Budapest on the Danube: site of summit in 1991 of the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
- waddling — Present participle of waddle.
- wind gap — a cut that indents only the upper part of a mountain ridge, usually a former water gap.
- windages — Plural form of windage.
- windbags — Plural form of windbag.
- windgall — a puffy distention of the synovial bursa at the fetlock joint.
- wing dam — a jetty for diverting the current of a stream.
- ygdrasil — the great ash tree whose roots and branches hold together the universe
- zygaenid — of or relating to the burnet moth genus, Zygaena