8-letter words containing a, g, o, r
- ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- iron age — the period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron.
- isegoria — Equality of all in freedom of speech.
- isograft — syngraft.
- isograms — Plural form of isogram.
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- jargoned — Simple past tense and past participle of jargon.
- jargonel — a type of pear that ripens early
- kangaroo — any herbivorous marsupial of the family Macropodidae, of Australia and adjacent islands, having a small head, short forelimbs, powerful hind legs used for leaping, and a long, thick tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
- kangeroo — Archaic form of kangaroo.
- kilogram — a unit of mass equal to 1000 grams: the basic unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder kept in Sèvres, France. Abbreviation: kg.
- kilogray — one thousand grays
- koftgari — the art of inlaying steel with gold
- kymogram — the graphic record produced by a diagnostic kymograph.
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
- lagerlof — Selma (Ottiliana Lovisa) [sel-mah awt-ti-lee-ah-nah loo-vi-sah] /ˈsɛl mɑ ˌɔt tɪ liˈɑ nɑ ˈlu vɪˌsɑ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1940, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1909.
- languour — Alternative spelling of languor.
- largando — allargando.
- laryngo- — indicating the larynx
- leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- logboard — a board used for logging a ship's records
- logogram — a conventional, abbreviated symbol for a frequently recurring word or phrase, as the symbol & for the word and. Also called logograph [law-guh-graf, -grahf, log-uh-] /ˈlɔ gəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf, ˈlɒg ə-/ (Show IPA).
- long arm — a long pole fitted with any of various devices, as a hook or clamp, for performing tasks otherwise out of reach.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis
- low gear — the arrangement of gears providing little speed but great torque
- maggiore — Lake, a lake in N Italy and S Switzerland. 83 sq. mi. (215 sq. km).
- majoring — a commissioned military officer ranking next below a lieutenant colonel and next above a captain.
- malgrado — in spite of
- mamogram — Non-standard spelling of mammogram.
- mangrove — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rhizophora, the species of which are mostly low trees growing in marshes or tidal shores, noted for their interlacing above-ground adventitious roots.
- marigold — any of several chiefly golden-flowered composite plants, especially of the genus Tagetes, as T. erecta, having strong-scented foliage and yielding an oil that repels root parasites.
- martagon — A Eurasian lily.
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- migrator — (computing) A computer program that helps move objects between locations, e.g. from a legacy system to a new technology.
- monogram — a design consisting of two or more alphabetic letters combined or interlaced, commonly one's initials, often printed on stationery, embroidered on clothing, etc.
- moorages — Plural form of moorage.
- morgagni — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1682–1771, Italian anatomist.
- mortgage — the rights conferred by it, or the state of the property conveyed.
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- nanogram — one billionth of a gram. Abbreviation: ng.
- negators — Plural form of negator.
- negatory — marked by negation; denying; negative.
- negatron — Also called negatron. Physics, Chemistry. an elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of matter, having a negative charge of 1.602 × 10 −19 coulombs, a mass of 9.108 × 10 −31 kilograms, and spin of ½, and existing independently or as the component outside the nucleus of an atom.
- nomogram — a graph, usually containing three parallel scales graduated for different variables so that when a straight line connects values of any two, the related value may be read directly from the third at the point intersected by the line.
- nonagram — A geometric figure which resembles a pentagram except that it has nine points instead of five.
- nonglare — (of a colour, paint, or surface) dull rather than shiny
- nonsugar — a substance that is not a sugar