8-letter words containing a, l, g
- dawdling — proceeding at a slow pace
- day girl — a girl who attends a boarding school daily, but returns home each evening
- daylight — Daylight is the natural light that there is during the day, before it gets dark.
- dazzling — Something that is dazzling is very impressive or beautiful.
- dead leg — temporary loss of sensation in the leg, caused by a blow to a muscle
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- decalage — the difference between the angles of incidence of the upper and lower wings of a biplane: A biplane has positive decalage if the angle of incidence of the upper wing is greater than that of the lower wing and negative decalage when the lower wing has the greater angle.
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decalogy — A set of ten works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as ten individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- deglazed — Simple past tense and past participle of deglaze.
- dekalogy — a series of ten related works
- delaying — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.
- delegacy — an elected standing committee at some British universities
- delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
- deligate — (surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
- detangle — to remove tangles from (hair)
- diaglyph — any instance of artwork carved into the surface of a hard substance (predominantly stone or metal), such that the design is set back from the surface; an intaglio
- diagonal — A diagonal line or movement goes in a sloping direction, for example, from one corner of a square across to the opposite corner.
- diallage — a green or brownish-black variety of the mineral augite in the form of layers of platelike crystals
- dialling — the process or action of operating a dial on a telephone in order to establish a connection
- dialogic — of, relating to, or characterized by dialogue.
- dialogue — Dialogue is communication or discussion between people or groups of people such as governments or political parties.
- diggable — capable of being dug
- digitals — Plural form of digital.
- dilating — Present participle of dilate.
- dillybag — (Australia) Alternative form of dilly bag.
- diplegia — paralysis of the identical part on both sides of the body.
- disgavel — to free from the tenure of gavelkind: to disgavel an estate.
- dog flea — any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
- dog nail — a nail having a head projecting to one side.
- douglass — Frederick, 1817–95, U.S. ex-slave, abolitionist, and orator.
- draggled — Simple past tense and past participle of draggle.
- draglift — a ski lift with a rope or metal bar by which skiers are pulled up to the top of a slope.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- drawling — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- dyslogia — inability to express ideas because of faulty reasoning or speech, due to a mental disorder.
- e galaxy — a type of galaxy having the shape of a spheroid or ellipsoid, rather than a disk.
- earplugs — Plural form of earplug.
- eelgrass — a grasslike marine plant, Zostera marina, having ribbonlike leaves.
- egg coal — anthracite in sizes ranging from 2.44 to 3.25 inches (8 to 8 cm), intermediate between broken coal and stove coal.
- eggplant — a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
- elapsing — Present participle of elapse.
- elegance — The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style.
- elegancy — Alternative form of elegance.
- elongate — Make (something) longer, especially unusually so in relation to its width.
- emailing — Present participle of email.
- enabling — software enabling
- enallage — (uncountable, rhetoric) Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
- engrails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engrail.