8-letter words containing a, g, t
- argentic — of or containing silver in the divalent or trivalent state
- argentum — silver. Symbol: Ag.
- argonaut — one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece
- argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
- argutely — in an argute manner
- armgaunt — (of limbs) slender
- armitage — Simon (Robert). born 1963, British poet and writer, whose collections include Zoom! (1989), Killing Time (1999), and Universal Home Doctor (2002)
- arrogant — Someone who is arrogant behaves in a proud, unpleasant way towards other people because they believe that they are more important than others.
- arrogate — If someone arrogates to themselves something such as a responsibility or privilege, they claim or take it even though they have no right to do so.
- art song — a song written by a trained composer to convey a specific artistic idea, as in projecting the mood and meaning of a poetic text
- ashgabat — capital of Turkmenistan, in the SC part, near the Iranian border: pop. 411,000
- assignat — the paper money issued by the Constituent Assembly in 1789, backed by the confiscated land of the Church and the émigrés
- 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.
- astragal — a small convex moulding, usually with a semicircular cross section
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- at grade — on the same level
- at large — You use at large to indicate that you are talking in a general way about most of the people mentioned.
- at night — If it is a particular time at night, it is during the time when it is dark and is before midnight.
- at sight — as soon as seen
- atheling — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a prince of any of the royal dynasties
- atmology — the study of or the scientific discipline of aqueous vapour
- ats&gwtu — All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers Trade Union
- attagirl — an expression of approval
- attiring — Present participle of attire.
- attuning — Present participle of attune.
- atty gen — Attorney General
- auditing — the act of inspecting, correcting, and certifying (accounts, etc)
- augments — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment.
- augurate — The position or office of an augur.
- augustan — characteristic of, denoting, or relating to the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar (63 bc–14 ad), his period, or the poets, notably Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, writing during his reign
- augustly — inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
- augustus — original name Gaius Octavianus; after his adoption by Julius Caesar (44 bc) known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus. 63 bc–14 ad, Roman statesman, a member of the second triumvirate (43 bc). After defeating Mark Antony at Actium (31 bc), he became first emperor of Rome, adopting the title Augustus (27 bc)
- autobiog — autobiography.
- autogamy — self-fertilization in flowering plants
- autogiro — a self-propelled aircraft supported in flight mainly by unpowered rotating horizontal blades
- autograf — (tool) A system for describing bar charts.
- autogyro — autogiro
- autology — the study of oneself
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- aviating — Present participle of aviate.
- avigator — aerial navigation.
- awaiting — waiting
- awanting — missing or in want of
- bag moth — a moth, the larvae of which develop in bags or cases
- baguette — A baguette is a type of long, thin, white bread which is traditionally made in France.
- bang out — If a company bangs out a poor quality product, they produce large quantities of it in order to make money.
- bangster — a ruffian; thug
- bangtail — a horse's tail cut straight across but not through the bone
- bantengs — Plural form of banteng.
- bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.