8-letter words containing a, h, i, g
- lashings — a binding or fastening with a rope or the like.
- latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- laughing — that laughs or is given to laughter: a laughing child.
- laughlin — James, IV, 1914–97, U.S. editor, publisher, and poet.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- lesghian — Lezghian.
- lezghian — a member of a people living mainly in the Dagestan Autonomous Republic in the Russian Federation.
- lichgate — Alternative spelling of lych-gate.
- litharge — a yellowish or reddish, odorless, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, PbO, used chiefly in the manufacture of storage batteries, pottery, lead glass, paints, enamels, and inks.
- loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- mageship — the role or office of a mage
- maghrebi — a native or inhabitant of the Maghreb.
- malpighi — Marcello [mahr-chel-law] /mɑrˈtʃɛl lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1628–94, Italian anatomist.
- marching — to touch at the border; border.
- mashgiah — an inspector appointed by a board of Orthodox rabbis to guard against any violation of the Jewish dietary laws in food processing plants, meat markets, etc., where food presumed to be kosher is prepared or served for public consumption.
- mashings — Plural form of mashing.
- matching — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- megalith — a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.
- megillah — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- mishigas — Craziness; silliness; tomfoolery; nonsense.
- nanching — a port in and the capital of Jiangsu province, in E China, on the Chang Jiang: a former capital of China.
- narghile — a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.
- nargileh — Alternative form of narghile.
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- nightjar — a nocturnal European bird, Caprimulgus europaeus, of the family Caprimulgidae, having a short bill and a wide mouth and feeding on insects captured in the air.
- nuraghic — relating to the Bronze Age Sardinian civilization that is distinguished by nuraghe
- oghamist — Alternative capitalization of Oghamist.
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- peaching — to inform against an accomplice or associate.
- pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
- philabeg — filibeg.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- qing hai — a lake in W central China, in NE Qinghai province. 2300 sq. mi. (5950 sq. km).
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- ranching — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- ringhals — a highly venomous snake, Hemachatus haemachatus, of southern Africa, related to the cobras, having one to three light-colored bands across its throat and characterized by its ability to accurately spit its venom up to 7 feet (2.1 meter) away.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- shadings — a slight variation or difference of color, character, etc.
- shafting — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- shagpile — (of a carpet or rug) having long, rough fibres