8-letter words containing a, r, g, l
- enlarges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enlarge.
- erlangen — a town in central Germany, in Bavaria: university (1743). Pop: 102 449 (2003 est)
- erlanger — Joseph. 1874–1965, US physiologist. He shared a Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1944) with Gasser for their work on the electrical signs of nervous activity
- fan-girl — Sometimes, fangurl. an obsessive female fan, especially of comic books, science fiction, video games, music, or electronic devices: a web forum for Star Wars fangirls.
- farmgirl — A girl or young woman who works on a farm.
- feldgrau — the shade of grey worn by German soldiers in World War II
- filagree — filigree.
- finagler — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- flagrant — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- floorage — floor space.
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- fulgural — of or relating to lightning
- gabblers — Plural form of gabbler.
- gabeller — a person who collected the gabelle; a tax-collector
- gabrieli — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1510–86, Italian organist and composer.
- gag rule — any rule restricting open discussion or debate concerning a given issue, especially in a deliberative body.
- gaillard — a spirited dance for two dancers in triple rhythm, common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- galeries — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- galerius — full name Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus. ?250–311 ad, Eastern Roman Emperor (305–311): noted for his persecution of Christians
- galleria — a spacious passageway, court, or indoor mall, usually with a vaulted roof and lined with commercial establishments.
- galliard — a spirited dance for two dancers in triple rhythm, common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- galloper — One who gallops.
- gamblers — Plural form of gambler.
- gambrels — Plural form of gambrel.
- ganglier — Comparative form of gangly.
- ganglord — The leader of a gang, especially a criminal organization.
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- garbling — Present participle of garble.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- gargling — Present participle of gargle.
- gargoyle — a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
- garishly — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- garlands — Plural form of garland.
- garlicky — a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine.
- garofalo — Galofalo.
- gasalier — A gas-powered chandelier.
- gaselier — Alt form gasalier.
- gasolier — a chandelier furnished with gaslights.
- gasteral — Of or pertaining to the stomach.
- gastrula — a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.
- gaultier — Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). born 1952, French fashion designer
- gearless — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- generall — Archaic spelling of general.
- generals — Plural form of general.
- geolatry — the worship of the earth
- geranial — a pale yellow, water-insoluble, liquid aldehyde, C 10 H 16 O, having a strong lemonlike odor, consisting in natural form of two isomers (citral a or geranial and citral b or neral) usually obtained from the oils of lemon and orange or synthetically: used chiefly in perfumery, flavoring, and the synthesis of vitamin A.
- geraniol — a colorless or pale-yellow terpene alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, with a geraniumlike odor, found in rose oil, soluble in alcohol and ether, insoluble in water: used in perfumes and flavors.
- germinal — being in the earliest stage of development: germinal ideas.