8-letter words containing a, r, g
- marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- marrying — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
- martagon — A Eurasian lily.
- massager — the act or art of treating the body by rubbing, kneading, patting, or the like, to stimulate circulation, increase suppleness, relieve tension, etc.
- matgrass — widespread perennial European grass with dense tufts of bristly leaves, characteristic of peaty moors
- maturing — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- meagered — Simple past tense and past participle of meager.
- meagerly — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagrely — In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- megafirm — A very large firm.
- megahurt — (computer slang, rare) megahertz.
- megastar — A very famous person, especially in the world of entertainment.
- meleager — flourished 1st century b.c, Greek epigrammatist.
- messager — One who sends a message.
- meterage — the practice of measuring; measurement.
- midrange — of, relating to, or occupying the middle audio frequencies: a midrange frequency.
- migraine — an extremely severe paroxysmal headache, usually confined to one side of the head and often associated with nausea; hemicrania.
- migrants — Plural form of migrant.
- migrated — to go from one country, region, or place to another. Synonyms: move, resettle, relocate. Antonyms: remain.
- migrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of migrate.
- migrator — (computing) A computer program that helps move objects between locations, e.g. from a legacy system to a new technology.
- misgrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- misgraff — badly matched
- misgraft — to graft wrongly
- monogram — a design consisting of two or more alphabetic letters combined or interlaced, commonly one's initials, often printed on stationery, embroidered on clothing, etc.
- moorages — Plural form of moorage.
- morgagni — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1682–1771, Italian anatomist.
- mortgage — the rights conferred by it, or the state of the property conveyed.
- mridanga — an ancient drum of India shaped like a long conical barrel with two tuned heads of different sizes.
- mudguard — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- musgrave — Thea. born 1928, Scottish composer, noted esp for her operas
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- nagurski — Bronislaw [bron-uh-slof] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɒf/ (Show IPA), ("Bronko") 1908–1990, U.S. football player, born in Canada.
- nanogram — one billionth of a gram. Abbreviation: ng.
- narghile — a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.
- nargileh — Alternative form of narghile.
- naturing — Present participle of nature.
- naufrage — (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin.
- neckgear — any form of clothing or apparel worn around the neck
- negators — Plural form of negator.
- negatory — marked by negation; denying; negative.
- negatron — Also called negatron. Physics, Chemistry. an elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of matter, having a negative charge of 1.602 × 10 −19 coulombs, a mass of 9.108 × 10 −31 kilograms, and spin of ½, and existing independently or as the component outside the nucleus of an atom.
- nerdgasm — a feeling of intense excitement felt by someone considered to be a nerd, esp. when caused by something relating to his or her leisure interests such as a new piece of technology, computer game, science fiction film, etc.
- new ager — a believer in New Age
- nigerian — a republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 356,669 sq. mi. (923,773 sq. km). Capital: Abuja.
- niggards — Plural form of niggard.
- nightjar — a nocturnal European bird, Caprimulgus europaeus, of the family Caprimulgidae, having a short bill and a wide mouth and feeding on insects captured in the air.
- nomogram — a graph, usually containing three parallel scales graduated for different variables so that when a straight line connects values of any two, the related value may be read directly from the third at the point intersected by the line.
- nonagram — A geometric figure which resembles a pentagram except that it has nine points instead of five.