8-letter words containing a, r, g
- legatary — a legatee
- legatura — (music) A tie or brace; a syncopation.
- lethargy — the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
- leverage — the action of a lever, a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third.
- lexigram — (psychology) A symbol that represents a word but is not necessarily indicative of the object referenced by the word, used in studies of communication.
- ligature — the act of binding or tying up: The ligature of the artery was done with skill.
- ligurian — an apparently Indo-European language used in ancient times along the NW coast of the Ligurian Sea.
- lingular — a tongue-shaped organ, process, or tissue.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- litharge — a yellowish or reddish, odorless, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, PbO, used chiefly in the manufacture of storage batteries, pottery, lead glass, paints, enamels, and inks.
- litreage — a capacity measured in litres
- logboard — a board used for logging a ship's records
- logogram — a conventional, abbreviated symbol for a frequently recurring word or phrase, as the symbol & for the word and. Also called logograph [law-guh-graf, -grahf, log-uh-] /ˈlɔ gəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf, ˈlɒg ə-/ (Show IPA).
- long arm — a long pole fitted with any of various devices, as a hook or clamp, for performing tasks otherwise out of reach.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- lopgrass — a species of smooth-bladed grass, Bromus mollis
- low gear — the arrangement of gears providing little speed but great torque
- macgyver — Alternative spelling of MacGyver.
- madrigal — a secular part song without instrumental accompaniment, usually for four to six voices, making abundant use of contrapuntal imitation, popular especially in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- mag card — Computers. a plastic or paper card with a magnetizable layer on which data can be recorded and from which data can be read.
- maggiore — Lake, a lake in N Italy and S Switzerland. 83 sq. mi. (215 sq. km).
- maghrebi — a native or inhabitant of the Maghreb.
- magicker — (fantasy) One who does magic; a sorcerer or magician.
- magister — Master; sir: -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
- magnetar — A neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field.
- magritte — René [French ruh-ney] /French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Belgian painter.
- mailgram — a telegram sent to a post office and subsequently printed and delivered by the post office to the addressee
- majoring — a commissioned military officer ranking next below a lieutenant colonel and next above a captain.
- malgrado — in spite of
- maligner — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- malinger — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
- mamogram — Non-standard spelling of mammogram.
- managers — Plural form of manager.
- managery — Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
- mangrove — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rhizophora, the species of which are mostly low trees growing in marshes or tidal shores, noted for their interlacing above-ground adventitious roots.
- manuring — excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- marbling — metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
- marching — to touch at the border; border.
- margaret — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “pearl.”.
- margaric — pearly; resembling a pearl.
- margarin — Archaic form of margarine.
- margelan — a city in E Uzbekistan, NW of Fergana.
- margents — (obsolete) Plural form of margent.
- marginal — pertaining to a margin.
- margined — Having a margin.
- margrave — (formerly) the hereditary title of the rulers of certain European states.
- marigold — any of several chiefly golden-flowered composite plants, especially of the genus Tagetes, as T. erecta, having strong-scented foliage and yielding an oil that repels root parasites.
- marigram — a graphic representation from a marigraph.
- maritage — the right of a lord to choose the spouses of his wards
- markings — Plural form of marking.