8-letter words containing a, l, i, g
- fanlight — a window over a door or another window, especially one having the form of a semicircle or of half an ellipse.
- farmgirl — A girl or young woman who works on a farm.
- faulting — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- fig leaf — the leaf of a fig tree.
- filagree — filigree.
- finagled — Simple past tense and past participle of finagle.
- finagler — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- finagles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of finagle.
- flacking — press agent.
- flagfish — Also called American flagfish. a killifish, Jordanella floridae, inhabiting swamps and streams of Florida, having a blue-brown back and whitish sides with red stripes, often kept in aquariums.
- flagging — becoming smaller or weaker; dwindling.
- flaglike — Resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).
- flagship — a ship carrying the flag officer or the commander of a fleet, squadron, or the like, and displaying the officer's flag.
- flailing — an instrument for threshing grain, consisting of a staff or handle to one end of which is attached a freely swinging stick or bar.
- flamingo — any of several aquatic birds of the family Phoenicopteridae, having very long legs and neck, webbed feet, a bill bent downward at the tip, and pinkish to scarlet plumage.
- flamings — Plural form of flaming.
- flamming — a deception or trick.
- flanging — (music) a time-based audio effect produced when two identical signals are mixed together, but with one signal time-delayed by a small and gradually changing amount, usually smaller than 20 milliseconds.
- 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.
- flashing — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- flatling — in a flat position; with the flat side, as of a sword.
- flatting — horizontally level: a flat roof.
- fleaking — (UK, dialect, obsolete) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatched houses.
- floating — being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
- foliaged — Having foliage.
- foliages — Plural form of foliage.
- fowliang — Older Spelling. former name of Jingdezhen.
- gabbling — Present participle of gabble.
- 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.
- gaffling — to take hold of; seize.
- gaffsail — an iron hook with a handle for landing large fish.
- 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.
- galabieh — djellabah.
- galabiya — djellabah.
- galactic — Astronomy. of or relating to a galaxy. of or relating to the Milky Way.
- galactin — prolactin.
- galatian — an ancient country in central Asia Minor: later a Roman province; site of an early Christian community.
- galatine — galantine.
- galaxies — Plural form of galaxy.
- galelike — Resembling or characteristic of a gale of wind.
- galenism — the medical system or principles of Galen.
- galenite — a common, heavy mineral, lead sulfide, PbS, occurring in lead-gray crystals, usually cubes, and cleavable masses: the principal ore of lead.
- galenoid — relating to or resembling galena