8-letter words containing a, g, i
- arisings — Waste products or byproducts of an industrial process.
- armitage — Simon (Robert). born 1963, British poet and writer, whose collections include Zoom! (1989), Killing Time (1999), and Universal Home Doctor (2002)
- arousing — causing sexual excitement
- arpeggio — a chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously
- arraigns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arraign.
- arraying — Present participle of array.
- arriving — to come to a certain point in the course of travel; reach one's destination: He finally arrived in Rome.
- arrowing — Present participle of arrow.
- ashikaga — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns 1338–1573.
- aspiring — If you use aspiring to describe someone who is starting a particular career, you mean that they are trying to become successful in it.
- assaying — to examine or analyze: to assay a situation; to assay an event.
- assegais — Plural form of assegai.
- assignat — the paper money issued by the Constituent Assembly in 1789, backed by the confiscated land of the Church and the émigrés
- 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.
- assignor — a person who transfers or assigns property
- assuming — You use assuming or assuming that when you are considering a possible situation or event, so that you can think about the consequences.
- assuring — to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to: She assured us that everything would turn out all right.
- astigmia — Also called astigmia [uh-stig-mee-uh] /əˈstɪg mi ə/ (Show IPA). Ophthalmology. a refractive error of the eye in which parallel rays of light from an external source do not converge on a single focal point on the retina.
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- at night — If it is a particular time at night, it is during the time when it is dark and is before midnight.
- at sight — as soon as seen
- atheling — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a prince of any of the royal dynasties
- attagirl — an expression of approval
- attiring — Present participle of attire.
- attuning — Present participle of attune.
- auditing — the act of inspecting, correcting, and certifying (accounts, etc)
- auguries — Plural form of augury.
- auguring — an excessively talkative person.
- aurignac — a village in S France: many prehistoric artifacts found in area.
- autobiog — autobiography.
- autogiro — a self-propelled aircraft supported in flight mainly by unpowered rotating horizontal blades
- availing — to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
- 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.
- aviating — Present participle of aviate.
- avigator — aerial navigation.
- avoiding — Present participle of avoid.
- awaiting — waiting
- awanting — missing or in want of
- awarding — Present participle of award.
- awninged — sheltered by or covered with an awning
- axiology — the theory of values, moral or aesthetic
- babbling — inarticulate or imperfect speech.
- babygirl — (slang, mostly, AAVE) Friendly or intimate term of address for a woman.
- backings — Plural form of backing.
- badigeon — a composition for patching surface defects in carpentry or masonry.
- badinage — Badinage is humorous or light-hearted conversation that often involves teasing someone.