8-letter words containing a, n, g, i, o
- gloaming — twilight; dusk.
- gloating — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- glossina — tsetse fly.
- gloxinia — any of several horticultural varieties of a plant belonging to the genus Sinningia, of the gesneria family, especially S. speciosa, having large white, red, or purple bell-shaped flowers.
- gnathion — Craniometry. the lowest point on the anterior margin of the lower jaw in the midsaggital plane.
- gnomical — Gnomic.
- go-train — a lightweight passenger train providing rapid surface transport between a city center and the suburbs and from suburb to suburb.
- goatling — a young goat
- goatskin — the skin or hide of a goat.
- golfiana — golfing collectibles
- gonaives — Gulf of, an inlet of the Caribbean Sea, between the two peninsulas of W Haiti.
- graviton — the theoretical quantum of gravitation, usually assumed to be an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of two.
- groaning — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- gynoecia — Plural form of gynoecium.
- gyration — the act of gyrating; circular or spiral motion; revolution; rotation; whirling.
- haiphong — a seaport in N Vietnam, near the Gulf of Tonkin.
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- hollaing — Present participle of holla.
- homaging — Present participle of homage.
- hooligan — a ruffian or hoodlum.
- ibogaine — an alkaloid, C 20 H 26 N 2 O, obtained from an African shrub, Tabernanthe iboga, having antidepressant and hallucinogenic properties.
- icosagon — (mathematics) A polygon with twenty sides and twenty angles.
- ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- in a fog — dazed
- intaglio — incised carving, as opposed to carving in relief.
- iron age — the period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron.
- isangoma — Alternative form of sangoma.
- isogonal — equiangular; isogonic.
- kaoliang — a variety of grain sorghum.
- kazooing — Present participle of kazoo.
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- lassoing — a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.
- legation — a diplomatic minister and staff in a foreign mission.
- liaodong — a peninsula in NE China, extending S into the Yellow Sea.
- liaoning — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
- liaoyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a city in central Liaoning province, in NE China.
- ligation — the act of ligating, especially of surgically tying up a bleeding artery.
- loadings — Plural form of loading.
- loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- locating — Present participle of locate.
- logician — a person who is skilled in logic.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- longtail — A common designation for an animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.
- louganis — Gregory ("Greg") born 1960, U.S. diver.
- magnolia — a city in SW Arkansas.
- majoring — a commissioned military officer ranking next below a lieutenant colonel and next above a captain.
- mandingo — a member of any of a number of peoples forming an extensive linguistic group in western Africa.
- masoning — Present participle of mason.
- masvingo — a city in S central Zimbabwe.
- mongolia — a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.