6-letter words containing a, n, g, e
- earing — the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
- easing — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
- eating — eats, Informal. food.
- encage — Confine in or as in a cage.
- engage — Occupy, attract, or involve (someone's interest or attention).
- engaol — (transitive, British, archaic) To imprison in a gaol.
- engram — A hypothetical permanent change in the brain accounting for the existence of memory; a memory trace.
- enigma — A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.
- ennage — the total number of ens in a piece of matter to be set in type
- enrage — Make very angry.
- erlang — (communication) A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.
- fanega — a unit of dry measure in Spanish-speaking countries, equal in Spain to 1.58 U.S. bushels (55.7 liters).
- fanged — to seize; grab.
- fanger — (Now chiefly dialectal) A receiver.
- fangle — (obsolete, or, dialectal) To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
- flange — a projecting rim, collar, or ring on a shaft, pipe, machine housing, etc., cast or formed to give additional strength, stiffness, or supporting area, or to provide a place for the attachment of other objects.
- gagmen — Plural form of gagman.
- gained — Simple past tense and past participle of gain.
- gainer — a person or thing that gains.
- gaines — Edmund Pendleton, 1777–1849, U.S. general.
- galena — a common, heavy mineral, lead sulfide, PbS, occurring in lead-gray crystals, usually cubes, and cleavable masses: the principal ore of lead.
- gamine — a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
- gamone — any chemical substance secreted by a gamete that attracts another gamete during sexual reproduction
- gander — a town in E Newfoundland, in Canada: airport on the great circle route between New York and northern Europe.
- ganefs — Plural form of ganef.
- ganesh — the Hindu god of prophecy, represented as having an elephant's head
- ganged — Simple past tense and past participle of gang.
- ganger — a foreman of a gang of laborers.
- ganges — a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Bay of Bengal: sacred to Hindus. 1550 miles (2495 km) long.
- gangle — to move awkwardly or ungracefully: A tall, stiff-jointed man gangled past.
- gangue — rock or mineral matter of no value occurring with the metallic ore in a vein or deposit.
- gannet — any large, web-footed, seabird of the family Sulidae, having a sharply pointed bill, long wings, and a wedge-shaped tail, noted for its plunging dives for fish.
- gansey — A sweater or T-shirt.
- garden — Alexander, 1730?–91, U.S. naturalist, born in Scotland.
- garner — to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place.
- garnet — Henry Highland, 1815–82, U.S. clergyman and abolitionist.
- gasmen — Plural form of gasman.
- geason — rare; uncommon
- geland — A kind of andisol associated with very cold climates.
- gemman — (archaic) gentleman.
- genera — a plural of genus.
- geneva — a city in and the capital of the canton of Geneva, in SW Switzerland, on the Lake of Geneva: seat of the League of Nations 1920–46.
- genial — of or relating to the chin.
- genova — Italian name of Genoa.
- genual — the knee.
- gerant — The manager or acting partner of a company, joint-stock association, etc.
- german — of or relating to Germany, its inhabitants, or their language.
- gerona — a city in NE Spain: city walls and 14th-century cathedral; often besieged, in particular by the French (1809). Pop: 81 220 (2003 est)
- gladen — Sword grass.
- glance — to look quickly or briefly.