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8-letter words containing a, n, g, o

  • pinotage — a red grape variety of South Africa, a cross between the Pinot Noir and the Hermitage
  • poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
  • poignant — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
  • polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
  • poontang — sexual intercourse with a woman.
  • pornomag — pornographic magazine
  • poundage — confinement within an enclosure or within certain limits.
  • qianlong — Ch'ien Lung.
  • quandong — an Australian tree, Fusanus acuminatus, bearing a fruit with an edible, nutlike seed.
  • quantong — quandong.
  • ragnarok — the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with the evil powers.
  • ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
  • rangiora — an evergreen shrub or small tree, Brachyglottis repanda, of New Zealand, having large ovate leaves and small greenish-white flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • regional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
  • renegado — a renegade.
  • renogram — a kidney scan monitoring the throughput by the kidney of a radioactive chemical injected into the bloodstream
  • rigadoon — a lively dance, formerly popular, for one couple, characterized by a jumping step and usually in quick duple meter.
  • rigatoni — a tubular pasta in short, ribbed pieces.
  • rigaudon — rigadoon.
  • roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
  • roarming — severe
  • roasting — roasted: roast beef.
  • rogation — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
  • rotating — to cause to turn around an axis or center point; revolve.
  • sangallo — Antonio Picconi da [ahn-taw-nyaw peek-kaw-nee dah] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ pikˈkɔ ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Cordiani) 1484?–1546, Italian architect and engineer.
  • sangamon — the third interglacial stage of the Pleistocene Epoch in North America, after the Illinoian glacial stage and before the Wisconsin.
  • santiago — a republic in SW South America, on the Pacific Coast. 286,396 sq. mi. (741,765 sq. km). Capital: Santiago.
  • saprogen — a plant or animal that can produce decay.
  • 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)
  • savoring — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
  • seagoing — designed or fit for going to sea, as a vessel.
  • selangor — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 3160 sq. mi. (8184 sq. km). Capital: Shah Alam.
  • shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
  • shandong — a maritime province in E China. 59,189 sq. mi. (153,299 sq. km). Capital: Jinan.
  • shaoxing — a city in NE Zhejiang province, in E China.
  • shaoyang — a city in central Hunan province, in E China.
  • shoaling — any large number of persons or things.
  • signoria — the government of an Italian city-state
  • snot rag — a handkerchief
  • snot-rag — a handkerchief.
  • sogdiana — a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.
  • sonogram — the visual image produced by reflected sound waves in a diagnostic ultrasound examination.
  • staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
  • stoating — the process or technique of finishing a facing, collar, or the like, or of mending material with concealed stitching.
  • stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
  • tagalong — a person or thing that follows the lead or initiative of another.
  • taganrog — a seaport in the S Russian Federation in Europe, on the Gulf of Taganrog.
  • taglioni — Marie. 1804–84, Italian ballet dancer, whose romantic style greatly influenced ballet in the 19th century
  • taizhong — Taichung.
  • tarragon — an Old World plant, Artemisia dracunculus, having aromatic leaves used for seasoning.
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