8-letter words containing a, l, g
- brailing — Nautical. any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- brawling — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- brigalow — any of various acacia trees
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- bugzilla — (programming) The web-based bug tracking system used by the Mozilla project.
- bulgakov — Mikhail Afanaseyev (ʌfʌˈnasjef). 1891–1940, Soviet novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer; his novels include The Master and Margerita (1966–67)
- bulganin — Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1895–1975, Soviet statesman and military leader; chairman of the council of ministers (1955–58)
- bulgaria — a republic in SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula on the Black Sea: under Turkish rule from 1395 until 1878; became an independent kingdom in 1908 and a republic in 1946; joined the EU in 2007; consists chiefly of the Danube valley in the north and the Balkan Mountains in the central part, separated from the Rhodope Mountains of the south by the valley of the Maritsa River. Language: Bulgarian. Religion: Christian (Bulgarian Orthodox) majority. Currency: lev. Capital: Sofia. Pop: 6 981 642 (2013 est). Area: 110 911 sq km (42 823 sq miles)
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bungwall — an Australian fern, Blechnum indicum, having an edible rhizome
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- cackling — Present participle of cackle.
- cacology — a bad choice of words; faulty speech
- cageless — Without a cage.
- cagelike — resembling a cage
- cageling — a bird kept in a cage
- cagliari — a port in Italy, the capital of Sardinia, on the S coast. Pop: 164 249 (2001)
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- cajoling — Present participle of cajole.
- calbayog — a city in the Philippines, on NW Samar.
- caligula — original name Gaius Caesar, son of Germanicus. 12–41 ad, Roman emperor (37–41), noted for his cruelty and tyranny; assassinated
- callgirl — Alternative spelling of call girl.
- callings — Plural form of calling.
- calzaghe — Joe. born 1972, Welsh boxer: won all 46 of his professional fights (1993–2008); world champion in the super middleweight and light heavyweight divisions
- candling — a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light.
- cantling — a layer of burnt brick lying directly over a clamp of bricks being fired.
- caringly — In a caring manner.
- carlings — Plural form of carling.
- caroling — a song, especially of joy.
- castling — the act of moving the king two squares laterally on the first rank and placing the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side or the queen's side
- catalogs — Plural form of catalog.
- caudling — Present participle of caudle.
- caulking — to fill or close seams or crevices of (a tank, window, etc.) in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
- caviling — Present participle of cavil.
- cerclage — the treatment of an incompetent cervix by means of a suture in early pregnancy to prevent miscarriage
- chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
- changkol — A type of hoe.
- chaology — the study of chaos theory
- chingola — a town in N central Zambia.
- chugalug — (transitive, intransitive) To swallow (a container of beer etc.) without pausing.
- cingular — ring-shaped; girdle-like
- clacking — Present participle of clack.
- claddagh — Irish ring
- cladding — Cladding is a covering of tiles, wooden boards, or other material that is fixed to the outside of a building to protect it against bad weather or to make it look more attractive.
- claiming — to assert and demand the recognition of (a right, title, possession, etc.); assert one's right to: to claim payment for services.
- clamming — Present participle of clam.
- clamping — the immobilization of a car or other vehicle by means of a wheel clamp
- clangbox — a device fitted to a jet-engine to change the direction of thrust