8-letter words containing a, g, e, i
- clearing — A clearing is a small area in a forest where there are no trees or bushes.
- cleating — a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support: He nailed cleats into the sides of the bookcase to keep the supports from slipping.
- cleaving — Present participle of cleave.
- cogenial — Alternative spelling of congenial.
- cogitate — If you are cogitating, you are thinking deeply about something.
- coinages — the act, process, or right of making coins.
- collegia — Ecclesiastical. college (def 11).
- copiague — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creasing — Present participle of crease.
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- cribbage — a game of cards for two to four, in which players try to win a set number of points before their opponents
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- debating — the activity of taking part in debates
- debitage — lithic debris and discards found at the sites where stone tools and weapons were made.
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decating — a finishing process for making fabric more lustrous, for improving the tactile quality of the nap, and for setting the material to reduce shrinkage.
- decaying — rotting as a result of bacterial, fungal, or chemical action; decomposing
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defaming — to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate: The newspaper editorial defamed the politician.
- delaying — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.
- deligate — (surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- diagetic — Misspelling of diegetic.
- diagnose — If someone or something is diagnosed as having a particular illness or problem, their illness or problem is identified. If an illness or problem is diagnosed, it is identified.
- diallage — a green or brownish-black variety of the mineral augite in the form of layers of platelike crystals
- dialogue — Dialogue is communication or discussion between people or groups of people such as governments or political parties.
- die game — to die bravely and still fighting
- digerati — People with expertise or professional involvement in information technology.
- diggable — capable of being dug
- digitate — Zoology. having digits or digitlike processes.
- dime bag — a packet containing an amount of an illegal drug selling for ten dollars.
- diplegia — paralysis of the identical part on both sides of the body.
- disagree — to fail to agree; differ: The conclusions disagree with the facts. The theories disagree in their basic premises.
- disgavel — to free from the tenure of gavelkind: to disgavel an estate.
- disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- disgrade — (obsolete) To degrade.
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- disusage — Gradual cessation of use or custom; disuse.
- divagate — to wander; stray.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drearing — sorrow; grief
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.