8-letter words containing a, l, n, g
- slanting — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- slashing — a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
- slatting — a slap; a sharp blow.
- sleaving — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- spalding — Albert, 1888–1953, U.S. violinist.
- spalling — a chip or splinter, as of stone or ore.
- spangled — Something that is spangled is covered with small shiny objects.
- spangler — a person who spangles
- spanglet — a little spangle
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- splaying — to spread out, expand, or extend.
- sprangle — to struggle or sprawl with limbs spread out wide
- springal — a young man
- stabling — a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
- stalking — an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- sunglass — burning glass.
- svengali — a person who completely dominates another, usually with selfish or sinister motives.
- synalgia — referred pain.
- synalgic — referred pain.
- tackling — equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing: fishing tackle.
- tag line — the last line of a play, story, speech, etc., used to clarify or dramatize a point.
- tagalong — a person or thing that follows the lead or initiative of another.
- taglioni — Marie. 1804–84, Italian ballet dancer, whose romantic style greatly influenced ballet in the 19th century
- tailings — the part of a projecting stone or brick tailed or inserted in a wall.
- taligent — A company founded jointly by Apple and IBM in March 1992. HP announced in January, 1994 that it would buy a 15% stake in Taligent. They are working on an "object-oriented operating system", due to be finished sometime in 1995. However, various independent pieces of Taligent will likely appear to be used with other operating systems, e.g. IBM's WorkplaceOS. Pink is an older name for Taligent, dating back to work that Apple did before the formation of Taligent.
- tallying — an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.
- tangible — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
- tangibly — capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
- tangling — to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
- teraglin — an edible marine fish, Zeluco atelodus, of Australia which has fine scales and is blue in colour
- thinglab — A simulation system written in Smalltalk-80. It solves constraints using value inference. Version: ThingLab II.
- togoland — a former German protectorate in W Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: E part is now the Republic of Togo; W part, a British mandate 1922–46 and trusteeship 1946–57, is now part of Ghana.
- totaling — constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
- trailing — to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
- trawling — fishing using a trawl net or trawl line
- triangle — a closed plane figure having three sides and three angles.
- trigonal — of, relating to, or shaped like a triangle; having three angles; triangular.
- twangler — a person who twangles
- ungainly — not graceful; awkward; unwieldy; clumsy: an ungainly child; an ungainly prose style.
- ungalled — not irritated or abraded
- ungenial — unfriendly
- unglazed — having a surface covered with a glaze; lustrous; smooth; glassy.
- ungulate — having hoofs.
- unialgal — of, relating to, or derived from a single algal cell.
- untangle — to bring out of a tangled state; disentangle; unsnarl.
- unvulgar — not vulgar or common; refined; free from vulgarity