8-letter words containing a, g, e, p
- gameplay — The tactical aspects of a computer game, such as its plot and the way it is played, as distinct from the graphics and sound effects.
- gantlope — gauntlet2 .
- gap year — a period of time, usually an academic or calendar year, in which a student takes a break from school to travel, work, or volunteer, typically after ending high school and before starting college.
- gapeseed — a daydream or reverie.
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- gas pipe — a metal pipe used to supply a building with gas
- gatepost — the vertical post on which a gate is suspended by hinges, or the post against which the gate is closed.
- gazumped — Simple past tense and past participle of gazump.
- gene map — an arrangement of genes on a chromosome.
- genipapo — A tropical American tree of the bedstraw family that yields useful timber. Its fruit has a jellylike pulp that is used for flavoring drinks and to make a black dye.
- genipaps — Plural form of genipap.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- geophagy — the practice of eating earthy matter, especially clay or chalk, as in famine-stricken areas.
- geropiga — a grape syrup used to sweeten inferior port wines
- glaspell — Susan, 1882–1948, U.S. novelist and dramatist.
- grampies — Plural form of grampy.
- grapheme — a minimal unit of a writing system.
- graphene — A fullerene consisting of bonded carbon atoms in sheet form one atom thick.
- graphite — a very common mineral, soft native carbon, occurring in black to dark-gray foliated masses, with metallic luster and greasy feel: used for pencil leads, as a lubricant, and for making crucibles and other refractories; plumbago; black lead.
- grapnels — Plural form of grapnel.
- grappled — to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
- grappler — to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
- grapples — Plural form of grapple.
- graspers — Plural form of grasper.
- griptape — a rough tape for sticking to a surface to provide a greater grip
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- gunpaper — a type of paper treated with nitric acid so that it has a composition similar to that of guncotton.
- gypseian — relating to gypsies
- heptagon — a polygon having seven angles and seven sides.
- homepage — Alternative form of home page.
- hypogeal — underground; subterranean.
- hypogean — Existing or growing underground.
- langspel — a long and narrow old or traditional Scandinavian stringed instrument, played with the fingers and not a bow
- leaf gap — (in the stele of vascular plants) a break in the tissue of a stem around a leaf trace.
- leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- mag tape — a magnetic tape used for recording data.
- mageship — the role or office of a mage
- man page — Unix manual page
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- megaplex — a large building containing many movie theaters, usually more than a dozen.
- megapode — any of several large-footed, short-winged gallinaceous Australasian birds of the family Megapodiidae, typically building a compostlike mound of decaying vegetation as an incubator for their eggs.
- neopagan — Alternative spelling of neo-pagan.
- packager — a person or business firm that packages a product or merchandise for commercial sale: a soap packager.
- paganize — to make pagan.
- page out — (storage, architecture) What a paging system does when it copies part of a task's working memory from RAM to swap space on disk.
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- pageview — one viewing of a web page; a single visit: Tracking pageviews is a way of predicting the advertising potential of a website.
- paginate — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.