8-letter words containing a, i, r, g, s
- raspings — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- rawlings — Marjorie Kinnan [ki-nan] /kɪˈnæn/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, U.S. novelist and journalist.
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- reassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- regalism — the principle that royalty have the highest power, esp when referring to church affairs
- regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism
- ribgrass — English plantain.
- 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.
- ringsail — ringtail (def 3).
- roasting — roasted: roast beef.
- salering — an enclosed area for livestock at market
- salinger — J(erome) D(avid) 1971–2010, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- sanglier — a closely woven fabric made of mohair or worsted, constructed in plain weave, and finished to simulate the coat of a boar.
- sastrugi — Usually, sastrugi. ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.
- savoring — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- scaliger — Joseph Justus [juhs-tuh s] /ˈdʒʌs təs/ (Show IPA), 1540–1609, French scholar and critic.
- scarfing — a long, broad strip of wool, silk, lace, or other material worn about the neck, shoulders, or head, for ornament or protection against cold, drafts, etc.; muffler.
- scargill — Arthur. born 1938, British trades union leader; president of the National Union of Mineworkers (1982–2002). He led the miners in a long and bitter strike (1984–85), but failed to prevent pit closures
- scarring — a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- scraping — an act or instance of scraping.
- sea-girt — surrounded by the sea.
- seraglio — the part of a Muslim house or palace in which the wives and concubines are secluded; harem.
- sharking — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- sharping — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- shearing — Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- signoria — the government of an Italian city-state
- singular — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- skiagram — a picture made by outlining and shading a subject's shadow.
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- sparring — a motion of sparring.
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- spingarn — Joel Elias, 1875–1939, U.S. literary critic, publisher, and editor.
- springal — a young man
- squirage — squires considered as a whole group
- srinagar — Also, Cashmere. a former princely state in SW Asia, adjacent to India, Pakistan, Sinkiang, and Tibet: sovereignty in dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- starring — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- starving — very hungry
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stravaig — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- sugaring — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- swingarm — the main part of the rear suspension on a motorcycle