6-letter words containing a, g, i
- lignan — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of phenylpropanoid (propylbenzene) type of molecules found in essentially all plants, generally dimeric or higher order, and produced by secondary metabolic pathways branching off of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis, in some cases having associated antioxidant or estrogenic (phytoestrogenic) activities; having in common with lignin the phenylpropanoid monomers, where lignin is a random oxidative polymerization of the same.
- ligsam — Alternative form of ligan.
- ligula — Botany, Zoology. a tonguelike or strap-shaped part or organ.
- linage — the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
- lingam — Sanskrit Grammar. the masculine gender.
- lingua — the tongue or a part like a tongue.
- lisgar — Sir John Young, 1807–76, Canadian political leader: governor general 1869–72.
- loggia — a gallery or arcade open to the air on at least one side.
- macing — (sometimes lowercase) to attack with Mace spray.
- maggid — (especially in Poland and Russia) a wandering Jewish preacher whose sermons contained religious and moral instruction and words of comfort and hope.
- maggie — Margaret ("Maggie") 1905–95, U.S. activist: a founder of the Gray Panthers.
- magick — Archaic. magic.
- magics — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of magic.
- magilp — Alternative form of megilp.
- magni- — great, big, large
- magpie — either of two corvine birds, Pica pica (black-billed magpie) of Eurasia and North America, or P. nuttalli (yellow-billed magpie) of California, having long, graduated tails, black-and-white plumage, and noisy, mischievous habits.
- magtig — (South Africa) my God! An expression of surprise.
- maigre — containing neither flesh nor its juices, as food permissible on days of religious abstinence.
- making — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- malign — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- maping — former name of Liuzhou.
- margie — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- margin — the space around the printed or written matter on a page.
- mating — a partner in marriage; spouse.
- maxing — Present participle of max.
- maying — the fifth month of the year, containing 31 days.
- mazing — a confusing network of intercommunicating paths or passages; labyrinth.
- milage — the aggregate number of miles traveled over in a given time.
- minhag — a custom or procedure among Jews that is so firmly established as to have almost the binding force of law.
- 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.
- mistag — (transitive) To tag incorrectly; to mislabel.
- nagari — a group of related scripts, including Devanagari, derived from Brahmi and used for the writing of many of the languages of India.
- naggin — A small measure of spirits.
- naguib — Mohammed, 1901–1984, Egyptian general and political leader: premier 1952–54; president 1953–54.
- naming — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- navig. — navigation
- naying — Present participle of nay.
- niggah — Alternative spelling of nigga.
- niggas — Plural form of nigga.
- nilgai — a large, Indian antelope, Boselaphus tragocamelus, the male of which is bluish gray with small horns, the female tawny and hornless.
- oaring — Present participle of oar.
- ogival — Having the curved, pointed shape of an ogive.
- oilgas — a gaseous mixture of hydrocarbons used as a fuel, obtained by the destructive distillation of mineral oils
- onagri — a wild ass, Equus hemionus, of southwestern Asia.
- orgiac — relating to an orgy
- origan — an aromatic herb, especially oregano.
- pacing — a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.: to walk at a brisk pace of five miles an hour.
- paging — a boy servant or attendant.
- paglia — Camille. born 1947, US writer and academic, noted for provocative cultural studies such as Sexual Personae (1990) and Vamps and Tramps (1995)
- paling — a stake or picket, as of a fence.