8-letter words containing a, g, s, i
- 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 sight — as soon as seen
- auguries — Plural form of augury.
- backings — Plural form of backing.
- bagpipes — Bagpipes are a musical instrument that is traditionally played in Scotland. You play the bagpipes by blowing air through a pipe into a bag, and then squeezing the bag to force the air out through other pipes.
- bailings — Plural form of bailing.
- balisage — a method of marking a land route with dim lighting so that vehicles can travel at higher speeds in blackout conditions.
- bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
- bargains — Plural form of bargain.
- barkings — Plural form of barking.
- barrings — Plural form of barring.
- bashings — Plural form of bashing.
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
- beadings — Plural form of beading.
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- being as — You can use being as to introduce a reason for what you are saying.
- big easy — the New Orleans
- bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- caginess — cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.
- callings — Plural form of calling.
- carlings — Plural form of carling.
- carvings — Plural form of carving.
- castings — Plural form of casting.
- castling — the act of moving the king two squares laterally on the first rank and placing the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side or the queen's side
- chagrins — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chagrin.
- chasings — a design chased on metal.
- chasting — Present participle of chast.
- clashing — to make a loud, harsh noise: The gears of the old car clashed and grated.
- clasping — (of a leaf) partly or wholly surrounding the stem.
- classing — Present participle of class.
- clausing — (shipping) present participle of clause.
- coamings — Plural form of coaming, especially all sides of a single coach roof, hatch, or cockpit.
- coasting — the land next to the sea; seashore: the rocky coast of Maine.