8-letter words containing a, r, g
- bongrace — a brim or shade on the front of women's bonnets or hats, intended to protect the face from the sun
- boongary — a tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus lumholtzi, of northeastern Queensland
- bowgrace — a fender or pad used to protect the bows of a vessel from ice.
- braggart — a person who boasts loudly or exaggeratedly; bragger
- braggers — a person who brags.
- braiding — braids collectively
- brailing — Nautical. any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
- brainfag — prolonged mental fatigue.
- braining — Anatomy, Zoology. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the mental and physical actions.
- brakeage — the braking power of a vehicle, esp a train
- branding — The branding of a product is the presentation of it to the public in a way that makes it easy for people to recognize or identify.
- branking — to hold up and toss the head, as a horse when spurning the bit or prancing.
- branting — Karl Hjalmar (jalmar). 1860–1925, Swedish politician; prime minister (1920; 1921–23; 1924–25). He founded Sweden's welfare state and shared the Nobel peace prize 1921
- brassage — a fee charged for coining money
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- brawling — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- breakage — Breakage is the act of breaking something.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- bretagne — Brittany2
- bridgman — Percy Williams. 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brigalow — any of various acacia trees
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- brockage — a defect or fault imposed on a coin during its minting.
- brougham — a four-wheeled horse-drawn closed carriage having a raised open driver's seat in front
- brugmann — (Friedrich) Karl [free-drik kahrl;; German free-drikh kahrl] /ˈfri drɪk kɑrl;; German ˈfri drɪx kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1849–1919, German philologist.
- bulgaria — a republic in SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula on the Black Sea: under Turkish rule from 1395 until 1878; became an independent kingdom in 1908 and a republic in 1946; joined the EU in 2007; consists chiefly of the Danube valley in the north and the Balkan Mountains in the central part, separated from the Rhodope Mountains of the south by the valley of the Maritsa River. Language: Bulgarian. Religion: Christian (Bulgarian Orthodox) majority. Currency: lev. Capital: Sofia. Pop: 6 981 642 (2013 est). Area: 110 911 sq km (42 823 sq miles)
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- burn bag — a special bag into which discarded secret or sensitive documents are placed for burning.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cagework — openwork resembling the bars of a cage
- cagliari — a port in Italy, the capital of Sardinia, on the S coast. Pop: 164 249 (2001)
- callgirl — Alternative spelling of call girl.
- 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.
- caprifig — a wild variety of fig, Ficus carica sylvestris, of S Europe and SW Asia, used in the caprification of the edible fig
- caragana — any of various shrubs and small trees with golden flowers of the genus Caragana and of the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and east Europe and widely planted in North America as windbreaks
- carageen — carrageen
- carangid — any marine percoid fish of the family Carangidae, having a compressed body and deeply forked tail. The group includes the jacks, horse mackerel, pompano, and pilot fish
- cardigan — A cardigan is a knitted woollen sweater that you can fasten at the front with buttons or a zip.
- caringly — In a caring manner.
- carlings — Plural form of carling.
- carnegie — Andrew. 1835–1919, US steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland: endowed public libraries, education, and research trusts