6-letter words containing a, g, r
- meager — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagre — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- megara — a city in ancient Greece: the chief city of Megaris.
- 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.
- moraga — a city in W California.
- morgan — Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
- morgay — a European small-spotted dogfish, Scyllium canicula
- murage — a toll or tax for the repair or construction of the walls or fortifications of a town.
- nadger — (jargon) /nad'jr/ [Great Britain] To modify software or hardware in a hidden manner, generally so that it conforms better to some format. For instance, an assembly code string printing subroutine that takes its string argument from the instruction stream would be called like this: jsr print:"Hello world" The print routine would use the saved instruction pointer (its return address) to find its argument and would have to "nadger" it so that the processor returns to the instruction after the string.
- nagari — a group of related scripts, including Devanagari, derived from Brahmi and used for the writing of many of the languages of India.
- nagger — nag1 (def 5).
- nagpur — a city in NE Maharashtra, in central India: former capital of the Central Provinces and Berar.
- nergal — (in Akkadian mythology) the god ruling, with Ereshkigal, the world of the dead.
- nuggar — a sailing boat used to carry cargo on the Nile
- oarage — (archaic) The act of using oars; rowing.
- oaring — Present participle of oar.
- onager — a wild ass, Equus hemionus, of southwestern Asia.
- onagri — a wild ass, Equus hemionus, of southwestern Asia.
- orange — methyl orange.
- orangs — Plural form of orang.
- orangy — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- organa — a plural of organum.
- organs — Also called pipe organ. a musical instrument consisting of one or more sets of pipes sounded by means of compressed air, played by means of one or more keyboards, and capable of producing a wide range of musical effects.
- orgasm — the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- orgeat — a syrup or drink made originally from barley but later from almonds, prepared with sugar and an extract of orange flowers.
- orgiac — relating to an orgy
- origan — an aromatic herb, especially oregano.
- ortega — Daniel, full surname Ortega Saavedra. born 1945, Nicaraguan politician and former resistance leader; president of Nicaragua (1985–90) and from 2007
- parage — lineage, family, or birth
- parang — a large, heavy knife used as a tool or a weapon in Malaysia and Indonesia.
- parget — any of various plasters or roughcasts for covering walls or other surfaces, especially a mortar of lime, hair, and cow dung for lining chimney flues.
- paring — the act of a person or thing that pares.
- parlog — Clark & Gregory, Imperial College 1983. An AND-parallel Prolog, with guards and committed choice nondeterminism (don't care nondeterminism). Shallow backtracking only. Implementations: MacParlog and PC-Parlog from Parallel Logic Programming Ltd., Box 49 Twickenham TW2 5PH, UK. See also SPM.
- pragma — (programming) (pragmatic information) A standardised form of comment which has meaning to the compiler or some other program. It may use a special syntax or a specific form within the normal comment syntax. A pragma usually conveys non-essential information, often intended to help the compiler to optimise the program or to generate formatted documentation.
- prague — a republic in central Europe: includes the regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and part of Silesia; formerly part of Czechoslovakia; independent since 1993. 30,449 sq. mi. (78,864 sq. km). Capital: Prague.
- preage — the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- pygarg — an antelope mentioned by Pliny, Herodotus, and in the Bible perhaps the addax
- racing — a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- rag on — to scold.
- ragbag — a bag in which small pieces of cloth are kept for use in mending.
- ragged — clothed in tattered garments: a ragged old man.
- raggle — a groove cut in masonry to receive flashing.
- raging — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- ragini — an Indian musical form related to raga
- raglan — a loose overcoat with raglan sleeves.
- ragman — a person who gathers or deals in rag.
- ragout — French Cookery. a highly seasoned stew of meat or fish, with or without vegetables.
- ragtag — ragged or shabby; disheveled.
- ragtop — an automobile having a folding canvas top; convertible.
- raguly — having tooth-like or stub-like projections