8-letter words containing a, r, g
- handgrip — the grip or clasp of a hand, as in greeting: a firm but friendly handgrip.
- hangared — a shed or shelter.
- hangbird — a bird that builds a hanging nest, especially the Baltimore oriole.
- hangfire — a delay in the detonation of gunpowder or other ammunition, caused by some defect in the fuze.
- hangover — the disagreeable physical aftereffects of drunkenness, such as a headache or stomach disorder, usually felt several hours after cessation of drinking.
- hapsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harangue — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- hardinge — Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore. 1785–1856, British politician, soldier, and colonial administrator; governor general of India (1844–48)
- hargeisa — a city in NW Somalia.
- haringey — a borough of Greater London, England.
- 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.
- harrying — to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
- harshing — Present participle of harsh.
- hatguard — a string to keep a hat from blowing off
- havering — a borough of Greater London, England.
- headgear — any covering for the head, especially a hat, cap, bonnet, etc.
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- hearings — Plural form of hearing.
- hearsing — Present participle of hearse.
- hearting — Present participle of heart.
- hemogram — a graphic record of the cellular elements of the blood.
- herbaged — covered with grass or herbage
- heritage — something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition: a national heritage of honor, pride, and courage.
- hexagram — a six-pointed starlike figure formed of two equilateral triangles placed concentrically with each side of a triangle parallel to a side of the other and on opposite sides of the center.
- high bar — a bar fixed in a position parallel to the floor or ground, for use in chinning and other exercises.
- highroad — Chiefly British. a main road; highway.
- hiragana — the cursive and more widely used of the two Japanese syllabaries.
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
- hologram — a negative produced by exposing a high-resolution photographic plate, without camera or lens, near a subject illuminated by monochromatic, coherent radiation, as from a laser: when it is placed in a beam of coherent light a true three-dimensional image of the subject is formed.
- ideogram — a written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.
- idiogram — Karyogram.
- igdrasil — Ygdrasil
- ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- in large — as a totality or on a broad scale
- in-grain — to implant or fix deeply and firmly, as in the nature or mind.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- ingather — to gather or bring in, as a harvest.
- ingrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingraft.
- ingrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingrain.
- ingrates — Plural form of ingrate.
- inlarged — Simple past tense and past participle of inlarge.
- integral — of, relating to, or belonging as a part of the whole; constituent or component: integral parts.
- interage — the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- irangate — a political scandal of 1986 in the United States involving the illegal sale of arms to Iran in return for the release of US hostages held there, and the use of the profits to funds Contra rebels in Nicaragua
- iron age — the period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron.
- irrigant — (surgery) irrigating agent.
- irrigate — to supply (land) with water by artificial means, as by diverting streams, flooding, or spraying.
- isegoria — Equality of all in freedom of speech.