8-letter words containing a, n, g, e
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
- runagate — a fugitive or runaway.
- sage hen — the sage grouse, especially the female.
- sagenite — a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- saginate — to fatten (livestock)
- saguenay — a river in SE Canada, in Quebec, flowing SE from Lake St. John to the St. Lawrence. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- salering — an enclosed area for livestock at market
- salinger — J(erome) D(avid) 1971–2010, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- sangaree — sangría.
- sanglier — a closely woven fabric made of mohair or worsted, constructed in plain weave, and finished to simulate the coat of a boar.
- sangreal — grail (def 1); the Holy Grail.
- sanguine — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- saprogen — a plant or animal that can produce decay.
- sardegna — a large island in the Mediterranean, W of Italy: with small nearby islands it comprises a department of Italy. 9301 sq. mi. (24,090 sq. km).
- sargeson — Frank. 1903–82, New Zealand short-story writer and novelist. His work includes the short-story collection That Summer and Other Stories (1946) and the novel I Saw in my Dream (1949)
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- scavenge — to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.
- sea king — one of the piratical Scandinavian chiefs who ravaged the coasts of medieval Europe.
- seagoing — designed or fit for going to sea, as a vessel.
- seahenge — a Bronze Age timber circle discovered off the coast of Norfolk in E England. Dating from 2050 bc, it is thought to have been used as a ceremonial site
- segreant — (of a griffin) rampant.
- seladang — the gaur.
- selangor — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 3160 sq. mi. (8184 sq. km). Capital: Shah Alam.
- semarang — a seaport on N Java, in S Indonesia.
- sergeant — Ancient Eboracum. a city in North Yorkshire, in NE England, on the Ouse: the capital of Roman Britain; cathedral.
- shagreen — an untanned leather with a granular surface, prepared from the hide of a horse, shark, seal, etc.
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- shealing — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shearing — Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- shenyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
- siegbahn — Karl Manne Georg [kahrl mahn-nuh yey-awr-yuh] /kɑrl ˈmɑn nə ˈyeɪ ɔr yə/ (Show IPA), 1886–1978, Swedish physicist: Nobel prize 1924.
- signable — suitable for signing, as in being satisfactory, appropriate, or complete: a signable legislative bill.
- 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.
- singable — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- sleaving — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- sneaking — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- spanghew — to throw into the air
- spangled — Something that is spangled is covered with small shiny objects.
- spangler — a person who spangles
- spanglet — a little spangle
- speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- sprangle — to struggle or sprawl with limbs spread out wide
- stagnate — to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- sternage — the stern or rear of a ship