8-letter words containing a, p, g
- gripsack — a traveling bag; grip.
- griptape — a rough tape for sticking to a surface to provide a greater grip
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- gunpaper — a type of paper treated with nitric acid so that it has a composition similar to that of guncotton.
- gypseian — relating to gypsies
- haiphong — a seaport in N Vietnam, near the Gulf of Tonkin.
- hairgrip — A flat hairpin having two prongs that hold bobbed hair together.
- handgrip — the grip or clasp of a hand, as in greeting: a firm but friendly handgrip.
- hapsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harpagon — (obsolete) a grappling hook.
- harpings — any of several horizontal members at the ends of a vessel for holding cant frames in position until the shell planking or plating is attached.
- heptagon — a polygon having seven angles and seven sides.
- homepage — Alternative form of home page.
- huapango — a fast, rhythmic dance of Mexico, performed by couples.
- hypalgia — reduced sensitivity to pain
- hypogamy — Act or practice of seeking a spouse of lower socioeconomic status, or caste status than oneself.
- hypogeal — underground; subterranean.
- hypogean — Existing or growing underground.
- impaling — Present participle of impale.
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- jogpants — a pair of trousers worn for jogging
- kampongs — Plural form of kampong.
- knapping — Present participle of knap.
- langspel — a long and narrow old or traditional Scandinavian stringed instrument, played with the fingers and not a bow
- lapwings — Plural form of lapwing.
- lard pig — a large type of pig used principally for lard
- leaf gap — (in the stele of vascular plants) a break in the tissue of a stem around a leaf trace.
- leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- liu pang — 247–195 b.c, Chinese emperor: founder of the Han dynasty 202 b.c.
- lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis
- mag tape — a magnetic tape used for recording data.
- mageship — the role or office of a mage
- malpighi — Marcello [mahr-chel-law] /mɑrˈtʃɛl lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1628–94, Italian anatomist.
- man page — Unix manual page
- mappings — Plural form of mapping.
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- megaplex — a large building containing many movie theaters, usually more than a dozen.
- megapode — any of several large-footed, short-winged gallinaceous Australasian birds of the family Megapodiidae, typically building a compostlike mound of decaying vegetation as an incubator for their eggs.
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- neopagan — Alternative spelling of neo-pagan.
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- nonpagan — a person who is not a pagan
- odograph — a recording odometer.
- olongapo — a port in the Philippines, on SW Luzon.
- omophagy — The eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- optogram — (physiology) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple.
- packager — a person or business firm that packages a product or merchandise for commercial sale: a soap packager.