8-letter words containing a, r, g, e
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brockage — a defect or fault imposed on a coin during its minting.
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cagework — openwork resembling the bars of a cage
- cam gear — a gear not centered on the shaft, used where discontinuous action is required
- canaigre — a dock, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the southern US, the root of which yields a substance used in tanning
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- carageen — carrageen
- carnegie — Andrew. 1835–1919, US steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland: endowed public libraries, education, and research trusts
- carriage — A carriage is an old-fashioned vehicle, usually for a small number of passengers, which is pulled by horses.
- carthage — an ancient city state, on the N African coast near present-day Tunis. Founded about 800 bc by Phoenician traders, it grew into an empire dominating N Africa and the Mediterranean. Destroyed and then rebuilt by Rome, it was finally razed by the Arabs in 697 ad
- carucage — the tax due on a carucate
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- catering — Catering is the activity of providing food and drink for a large number of people, for example at weddings and parties.
- cerclage — the treatment of an incompetent cervix by means of a suture in early pregnancy to prevent miscarriage
- changers — Plural form of changer.
- chargers — Plural form of charger.
- chargeth — Archaic third-person singular form of charge.
- citrange — a hybrid orange
- clangers — Plural form of clanger.
- claviger — a key- or club-bearer
- clearing — A clearing is a small area in a forest where there are no trees or bushes.
- commager — Henry Steele, 1902–98, U.S. historian, author, and teacher.
- congaree — river in S.C., joining the Wateree to form the Santee River: 52 mi (84 km)
- corsages — Plural form of corsage.
- cosgrave — Liam (ˈliːəm). born 1920, Irish statesman; prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1973–77)
- cottager — a person who lives in a cottage
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- courages — the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.
- coverage — The coverage of something in the news is the reporting of it.
- cragsmen — Plural form of cragsman.
- crannoge — Alt form crannog.
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creasing — Present participle of crease.
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- creepage — a slow and gradual movement
- cribbage — a game of cards for two to four, in which players try to win a set number of points before their opponents
- daggered — a short, swordlike weapon with a pointed blade and a handle, used for stabbing.
- dago red — a cheap red wine, especially a jug wine of Italian origin.
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- daguerre — Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)
- dahlgren — John Adelphus Bernard, 1809–70, U.S. naval officer and inventor.
- damagers — Plural form of damager.
- dangered — Simple past tense and past participle of danger.
- danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- dark age — If you refer to a period in the history of a society as a dark age, you think that it is characterized by a lack of knowledge and progress.
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.