8-letter words containing a, n, g, s, t
- nostalgy — nostalgia.
- nutgalls — Plural form of nutgall.
- nutgrass — A perennial sedge, Cyperus rotundus, that has small edible nutlike tubers.
- octagons — Plural form of octagon.
- organist — a person who plays the organ.
- paganist — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
- roasting — roasted: roast beef.
- sagenite — a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- saginate — to fatten (livestock)
- santiago — a republic in SW South America, on the Pacific Coast. 286,396 sq. mi. (741,765 sq. km). Capital: Santiago.
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- scatting — to sing by making full or partial use of the technique of scat singing.
- segreant — (of a griffin) rampant.
- sergeant — Ancient Eboracum. a city in North Yorkshire, in NE England, on the Ouse: the capital of Roman Britain; cathedral.
- shafting — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- shang ti — the chief of the ancient Chinese gods.
- shantung — Shandong.
- siangtan — a city in E Hunan, in S China.
- slanting — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- slatting — a slap; a sharp blow.
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- snot rag — a handkerchief
- snot-rag — a handkerchief.
- spanglet — a little spangle
- stabbing — penetrating; piercing: a stabbing pain.
- stabling — a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
- stacking — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- staffing — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- stagging — an adult male deer.
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- stagnant — not flowing or running, as water, air, etc.
- stagnate — to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
- staining — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- stalking — an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
- standing — rank or status, especially with respect to social, economic, or personal position, reputation, etc.: He had little standing in the community.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- starring — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- starving — very hungry
- 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
- stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
- 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
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.