6-letter words containing a, g, e
- manage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- manege — the art of training and riding horses.
- manged — /mahnjd/ [probably from the French "manger" or Italian "mangiare", to eat; perhaps influenced by English "mange", "mangy"] Refers to anything that is mangled or damaged, usually beyond repair. "The disk was manged after the electrical storm." Compare mung.
- mangel — A beet of a variety with a large root, cultivated as feed for livestock.
- manger — Praesepe.
- mangey — having, caused by, or like the mange.
- mangle — to smooth or press with a mangle.
- margie — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- mauger — in spite of; notwithstanding.
- maugre — in spite of; notwithstanding.
- mawger — (of persons or animals) thin or lean
- meager — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagre — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- megara — a city in ancient Greece: the chief city of Megaris.
- megass — bagasse.
- meghan — a female given name.
- menage — a domestic establishment; household.
- metage — the official measurement of contents or weight.
- milage — the aggregate number of miles traveled over in a given time.
- mirage — an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
- mugabe — Robert (Gabriel) born 1924, Zimbabwean political leader: prime minister 1980–87; president since 1987.
- murage — a toll or tax for the repair or construction of the walls or fortifications of a town.
- mygale — any spider of the genus Mygale, native to parts of North, Central and South America, commonly known as bird-eating spiders
- nadger — (jargon) /nad'jr/ [Great Britain] To modify software or hardware in a hidden manner, generally so that it conforms better to some format. For instance, an assembly code string printing subroutine that takes its string argument from the instruction stream would be called like this: jsr print:"Hello world" The print routine would use the saved instruction pointer (its return address) to find its argument and would have to "nadger" it so that the processor returns to the instruction after the string.
- nagged — Simple past tense and past participle of nag.
- nagger — nag1 (def 5).
- negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- nergal — (in Akkadian mythology) the god ruling, with Ereshkigal, the world of the dead.
- netlag — (networking) A condition that occurs when the delays in the IRC network, a MUD connection, a telnet connection, or any other networked interactive system, become severe enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish contact, causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays of up to a minute. (Note that this term has nothing to do with mainstream "jet lag").
- nonage — the period of legal minority, or of an age below 21.
- oarage — (archaic) The act of using oars; rowing.
- of age — the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- ogaden — an arid region in SE Ethiopia.
- ohmage — electric resistance expressed in ohms.
- omegas — Plural form of omega.
- onager — a wild ass, Equus hemionus, of southwestern Asia.
- orange — methyl orange.
- orgeat — a syrup or drink made originally from barley but later from almonds, prepared with sugar and an extract of orange flowers.
- ortega — Daniel, full surname Ortega Saavedra. born 1945, Nicaraguan politician and former resistance leader; president of Nicaragua (1985–90) and from 2007
- outage — an interruption or failure in the supply of power, especially electricity.
- pangea — the hypothetical landmass that existed when all continents were joined, from about 300 to 200 million years ago.
- pangwe — Fang (def 1).
- parage — lineage, family, or birth
- parget — any of various plasters or roughcasts for covering walls or other surfaces, especially a mortar of lime, hair, and cow dung for lining chimney flues.
- pavage — a tax towards paving streets, or the right to levy such a tax
- pelage — the hair, fur, wool, or other soft covering of a mammal.
- penang — an island in SE Asia, off the W coast of the Malay Peninsula. 110 sq. mi. (285 sq. km).
- piaget — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1896–1980, Swiss psychologist: studied cognitive development of children.
- piegan — a member of a subtribe of the Blackfoot Indians
- pipage — conveyance, as of water, gas, or oil, by means of pipes.