8-letter words containing a, n, d, i, g
- parading — a large public procession, usually including a marching band and often of a festive nature, held in honor of an anniversary, person, event, etc.
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- quadding — Also called quadrat. a piece of type metal of less height than the lettered types, serving to cause a blank in printed matter, used for spacing.
- raddling — Present participle of raddle.
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- readying — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
- reginald — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “counsel and rule.”.
- rigadoon — a lively dance, formerly popular, for one couple, characterized by a jumping step and usually in quick duple meter.
- rigaudon — rigadoon.
- saddling — a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
- salading — the ingredients for a salad
- sandling — a sand eel
- scalding — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- shadings — a slight variation or difference of color, character, etc.
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- signaled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- sogdiana — a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.
- spalding — Albert, 1888–1953, U.S. violinist.
- standing — rank or status, especially with respect to social, economic, or personal position, reputation, etc.: He had little standing in the community.
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- toadying — an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
- undaring — lacking a sense of adventure
- unfading — not liable to fade in colour
- waddling — Present participle of waddle.
- wind gap — a cut that indents only the upper part of a mountain ridge, usually a former water gap.
- windages — Plural form of windage.
- windbags — Plural form of windbag.
- windgall — a puffy distention of the synovial bursa at the fetlock joint.
- wing dam — a jetty for diverting the current of a stream.
- zygaenid — of or relating to the burnet moth genus, Zygaena