8-letter words containing a, g, n, i, l
- luxating — Present participle of luxate.
- magnolia — a city in SW Arkansas.
- mailings — Plural form of mailing.
- maligned — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- maligner — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- malignly — In a malign manner.
- malinger — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
- maltings — Plural form of malting.
- mangling — to smooth or press with a mangle.
- mantling — a loose, sleeveless cloak or cape.
- marbling — metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
- marginal — pertaining to a margin.
- maudling — Present participle of maudle.
- measling — A form of delamination, or separation in a laminate material, resulting in a spotty appearance.
- medaling — a flat piece of metal, often a disk but sometimes a cross, star, or other form, usually bearing an inscription or design, issued to commemorate a person, action, or event, or given as a reward for bravery, merit, or the like: a gold medal for the best swimmer.
- metaling — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- miauling — Present participle of miaul.
- milligan — Spike, real name Terence Alan Milligan. 1918–2002, Irish radio, stage, and film comedian and author, born in India. He appeared in The Goon Show (with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe; BBC Radio, 1952–60) and his films include Postman's Knock (1962), Adolf Hitler, My Part in his Downfall (1972), The Three Musketeers (1974), The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), and Yellowbeard (1982). He was awarded an honorary knighthood in 2000
- misalign — To align incorrectly.
- mongolia — a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
- mulligan — Gerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927–96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
- nan ling — a mountain range in S China, separating Guangdong province from Hunan province and Guangxi Zhuang region.
- narghile — a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.
- nargileh — Alternative form of narghile.
- ngaliema — Mount, a mountain with two summits, in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: highest peak in the Ruwenzori group. 16,790 feet (5119 meters).
- obligant — a person who promises or is obliged to pay a sum or carry out a task
- oogonial — Of or pertaining to an oogonium.
- oracling — Present participle of oracle.
- original — belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
- paneling — a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
- pangolin — any mammal of the order Pholidota, of Africa and tropical Asia, having a covering of broad, overlapping, horny scales and feeding on ants and termites.
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pelagian — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
- pignolia — a pine nut, the edible seed of the nut pine
- placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
- plaguing — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- plaining — to complain.
- plaiting — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- planking — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- platting — a plait or braid.
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- pleating — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
- qianlong — Ch'ien Lung.
- quailing — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.