8-letter words containing a, g, t, e
- retaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office
- runagate — a fugitive or runaway.
- sabotage — any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute.
- sagenite — a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- saginate — to fatten (livestock)
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- sea gate — a navigable channel giving access to the sea.
- sea-girt — surrounded by the sea.
- segreant — (of a griffin) rampant.
- sergeant — Ancient Eboracum. a city in North Yorkshire, in NE England, on the Ouse: the capital of Roman Britain; cathedral.
- she-goat — a female goat
- shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
- somegate — in some manner
- spanglet — a little spangle
- staffage — all of the additional figures, animals and other items of ornamentation in a painted scene or landscape, as distinct from the main figures or elements of the composition
- stageful — the number of people, or the amount of something, that fills a stage
- stagette — (as modifier)
- staggers — to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
- staggery — tending to stagger
- stagnate — to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
- stallage — the right to set up a stall in a fair or market.
- stargaze — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- stealage — the act of stealing.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steerage — a part or division of a ship, formerly the part containing the steering apparatus.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- sternage — the stern or rear of a ship
- stillage — a low platform on which goods are stored in a warehouse or factory to keep them off the floor, to aid in handling, etc. Compare skid (def 3).
- stockage — supplies
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- straggle — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- stravage — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- strewage — strewn or discarded items
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- stumpage — standing timber with reference to its value.
- subagent — a person whose duties as an agent are delegated to him or her by another agent.
- substage — the component part of a microscope below the stage, for supporting a condenser, mirror, or other accessories.
- sweating — the act or process of sweating
- tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- tag line — the last line of a play, story, speech, etc., used to clarify or dramatize a point.
- tag sale — garage sale.
- tag team — a team of two wrestlers who compete one at a time against either member of another such team, the wrestlers in the ring changing places with those outside by tagging them.
- tag-team — designating or having to do with a form of professional wrestling in which two-member teams compete, with teammates alternating in the ring