8-letter words containing a, g, e, i
- alienage — the legal status of an alien
- alighted — Simple past tense and past participle of alight.
- alleging — to assert without proof.
- allergic — If you are allergic to something, you become ill or get a rash when you eat it, smell it, or touch it.
- alligate — to connect or join (a thing) to something else
- altering — to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify: to alter a coat; to alter a will; to alter course.
- amending — to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure: Congress may amend the proposed tax bill.
- amercing — Present participle of amerce.
- amidogen — a compound radical, NH2, derived from ammonia
- angelica — Angelica is the candied stems of the angelica plant which can be used in making cakes or sweets.
- angelico — Fra (fra), original name Guido di Pietro; monastic name Fra Giovanni da Fiesole. ?1400–55, Italian fresco painter and Dominican friar
- angelina — a feminine name
- angeling — one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels).
- angering — a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
- anginose — (dated) Relating to angina; anginous.
- anglaise — an old English country-dance.
- angriest — feeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, or about): to be angry at the dean; to be angry about the snub.
- anguiped — having snakes for feet or legs
- annexing — Present participle of annex.
- antigens — Immunology. any substance that can stimulate the production of antibodies and combine specifically with them.
- antigone — daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who was condemned to death for cremating the body of her brother Polynices in defiance of an edict of her uncle, King Creon of Thebes
- apologie — Archaic spelling of apology.
- appeling — Present participle of appel.
- argentic — of or containing silver in the divalent or trivalent state
- argerich — Martha. born 1941, Argentinian concert pianist
- arginase — an enzyme which hydrolyses arginine into ornithine and urea
- arginine — an essential amino acid of plant and animal proteins, necessary for nutrition and for the production of excretory urea
- argosies — Plural form of argosy.
- argufied — Simple past tense and past participle of argufy.
- argufier — a person who argufies
- argufies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of argufy.
- armitage — Simon (Robert). born 1963, British poet and writer, whose collections include Zoom! (1989), Killing Time (1999), and Universal Home Doctor (2002)
- arpeggio — a chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously
- assegais — Plural form of assegai.
- assigned — Simple past tense and past participle of assign.
- assignee — a person to whom some right, interest, or property is transferred
- assigner — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- atheling — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a prince of any of the royal dynasties
- auguries — Plural form of augury.
- avenging — taking vengeance on someone or something for a wrong done
- averring — to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- awninged — sheltered by or covered with an awning
- badigeon — a composition for patching surface defects in carpentry or masonry.
- badinage — Badinage is humorous or light-hearted conversation that often involves teasing someone.
- bagpiper — a person who plays the bagpipes
- bagpipes — Bagpipes are a musical instrument that is traditionally played in Scotland. You play the bagpipes by blowing air through a pipe into a bag, and then squeezing the bag to force the air out through other pipes.
- balisage — a method of marking a land route with dim lighting so that vehicles can travel at higher speeds in blackout conditions.
- baregine — a whitish, mucilaginous substance found in the thermal waters of Barèges in France, considered to have healing properties