8-letter words containing a, g, r, i, e
- berrigan — an Australian tree, Pittosporum phylliraeoides, with hanging branches
- bewaring — to be wary, cautious, or careful of (usually used imperatively): Beware such inconsistency. Beware his waspish wit.
- bigarade — a Seville orange
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- canaigre — a dock, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the southern US, the root of which yields a substance used in tanning
- capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- carnegie — Andrew. 1835–1919, US steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland: endowed public libraries, education, and research trusts
- carriage — A carriage is an old-fashioned vehicle, usually for a small number of passengers, which is pulled by horses.
- catering — Catering is the activity of providing food and drink for a large number of people, for example at weddings and parties.
- citrange — a hybrid orange
- claviger — a key- or club-bearer
- clearing — A clearing is a small area in a forest where there are no trees or bushes.
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creasing — Present participle of crease.
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- cribbage — a game of cards for two to four, in which players try to win a set number of points before their opponents
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- digerati — People with expertise or professional involvement in information technology.
- disagree — to fail to agree; differ: The conclusions disagree with the facts. The theories disagree in their basic premises.
- disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- disgrade — (obsolete) To degrade.
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drearing — sorrow; grief
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- earnings — money earned; wages; profits.
- earrings — Plural form of earring.
- earthing — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- earwiggy — having an infestation or a swarm of earwigs
- earywigs — Plural form of earywig.
- emigrant — A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- emigrate — Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- enargite — a sulphide of copper and arsenic
- engrails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engrail.
- enraging — Present participle of enrage.
- epigrams — Plural form of epigram.
- epigraph — An inscription on a building, statue, or coin.
- ergastic — consisting of the non-living by-products of protoplasmic activity
- ergative — Relating to or denoting a case of nouns (in some languages, e.g., Basque and Eskimo) that identifies the subject of a transitive verb and is different from the case that identifies the subject of an intransitive verb.