8-letter words containing a, l, g
- flanking — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- flanning — Architecture. the splay of a sconcheon.
- flapping — to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise: A loose shutter flapped outside the window.
- flashgun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flashing — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- flat bug — any of numerous flattened bugs of the family Aradidae, inhabiting the underside of bark and feeding on fungi.
- flatling — in a flat position; with the flat side, as of a sword.
- flatlong — With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
- flatting — horizontally level: a flat roof.
- fleabags — Plural form of fleabag.
- fleaking — (UK, dialect, obsolete) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatched houses.
- flexagon — a three-dimensional figure having polygonal faces that is constructed from a folded sheet of paper in such a way that different faces are exposed when the figure is flexed along its folds.
- floatage — an act of floating.
- floating — being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
- floorage — floor space.
- flue gas — the smoke in the uptake of a boiler fire: it consists mainly of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen
- fluxgate — (physics) Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.
- fly page — banner
- fog lamp — a powerful light for use in foggy conditions, usually positioned low down on the front or rear of a road vehicle
- foliaged — Having foliage.
- foliages — Plural form of foliage.
- fowliang — Older Spelling. former name of Jingdezhen.
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- fugleman — (formerly) a soldier placed in front of a military company as a good model during training drills.
- fulgural — of or relating to lightning
- fuselage — the complete central structure to which the wing, tail surfaces, and engines are attached on an airplane.
- gabblers — Plural form of gabbler.
- gabbling — Present participle of gabble.
- gabeller — a person who collected the gabelle; a tax-collector
- gabrieli — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1510–86, Italian organist and composer.
- gadflies — Plural form of gadfly.
- gadhelic — Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.
- gadwalls — Plural form of gadwall.
- gaffling — to take hold of; seize.
- gaffsail — an iron hook with a handle for landing large fish.
- gag rule — any rule restricting open discussion or debate concerning a given issue, especially in a deliberative body.
- gaggling — to cackle.
- gaillard — a spirited dance for two dancers in triple rhythm, common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- gainfull — Archaic form of gainful.
- gainless — unprofitable.
- gala day — a day of sports, entertainment, etc, often organized in order to raise money for a charity, cause, school, etc
- galabieh — djellabah.
- galabiya — djellabah.
- galactan — any of the class of hexosans, as agar, that yield galactose upon hydrolysis.
- galactic — Astronomy. of or relating to a galaxy. of or relating to the Milky Way.
- galactin — prolactin.
- galacto- — milk or milky
- galangal — the aromatic, medicinal rhizome of certain eastern Asian plants belonging to the genus Alpinia, of the ginger family.
- galapago — the Galapagos giant tortoise
- galatian — an ancient country in central Asia Minor: later a Roman province; site of an early Christian community.