6-letter words containing a, g
- angsty — displaying or feeling angst, esp in a self-conscious manner
- angust — (obsolete) Narrow; strait; contracted; not spacious.
- anight — at or by night
- anking — a city in S Anhui province, in E China, on the Chang Jiang: former capital of Anhui.
- anlage — the basis of a later development; foundation
- anough — enough
- anqing — a city in E China, in SW Anhui province on the Yangtze River: famous seven-storeyed pagoda. Pop: 686 000 (2005 est)
- ansgar — Saint ("Apostle of the North") 801–865, French Benedictine priest and missionary: patron saint of Scandinavia.
- anting — the placing or rubbing of ants by birds on their feathers. The body fluids of the ants are thought to repel parasites
- antung — Dandong
- anyang — a town in E China, in Henan province: archaeological site and capital of the Shang dynasty. Pop: 808 000 (2005 est)
- apeing — Present participle of ape.
- aplgol — (language) An APL variant with ALGOL-like control structure, from Hewlett-Packard(?).
- apogee — The apogee of something such as a culture or a business is its highest or its greatest point.
- applog — (language) A language which unifies logic programming and functional programming.
- aragon — an autonomous region of NE Spain: independent kingdom from the 11th century until 1479, when it was united with Castile to form modern Spain. Pop: 1 059 600 (2003 est). Area: 47 609 sq km (18 382 sq miles)
- arango — A rough carnelian bead, formerly used in Africa as currency when buying slaves for the slave trade.
- arcing — Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- argala — the adjutant bird
- argali — a wild sheep, Ovis ammon, inhabiting semidesert regions in central Asia: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla. It is the largest of the sheep, having massive horns in the male, which may almost form a circle
- argall — Sir Samuel, 1572–1639, British explorer: colonial governor of Virginia 1617–19.
- argand — a lamp with a hollow circular wick
- argent — (as adjective; often postpositive, esp in heraldry)
- arghan — any of various plants of the genus Agave and of the family Agavaceae, which are native to tropical America and have tall flower stalks rising from a massive, often armed, rosette of thick fleshy leaves
- argies — a term used to refer to an Argentine.
- argive — (in Homer, Virgil, etc) of or relating to the Greeks besieging Troy, esp those from Argos
- argosy — a large abundantly laden merchant ship, or a fleet of such ships
- argots — Plural form of argot.
- argued — Simple past tense and past participle of argue.
- arguer — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- argues — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- argufy — to argue or quarrel, esp over something trivial
- arguta — the green, smooth-skinned, edible fruit of an Asian vine, Actinidia arguta.
- argute — (of sounds) shrill
- argyle — made of knitted or woven material with a diamond-shaped pattern of two or more colours
- argyll — former county of W Scotland
- ariege — a department of SW France, in Midi-Pyrénées region. Capital: Foix. Pop: 139 612 (2003 est). Area: 4903 sq km (1912 sq miles)
- aright — correctly; rightly; properly
- armagh — a historical county of S Northern Ireland: in 1973 it was replaced for administrative purposes by the districts of Armagh and Craigavon. Area: 1326 sq km (512 sq miles)
- arming — the act of taking arms or providing with arms
- asgard — the dwelling place of the principal gods, the Aesir
- asiago — either of two varieties (ripened or fresh) of a cow's-milk cheese produced in NE Italy
- asking — Present participle of ask.
- aslaug — daughter of Brynhild and Sigurd, wife of Ragnar Lodbrok.
- assign — If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
- aswing — in an oscillating or swinging manner
- atabeg — a Turkish leader who had a lower status than the ruler of the country and who acted as teacher and guardian to the male heir apparent
- auding — the practice of listening to and processing spoken language in order to understand
- augcog — augmented cognition
- augean — extremely dirty or corrupt