8-letter words containing a, r, i, g
- lagering — a camp or encampment, especially within a protective circle of wagons.
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- lard pig — a large type of pig used principally for lard
- large it — to enjoy oneself or celebrate in an extravagant way
- larrigan — a knee-high boot of oiled leather with a moccasin foot, worn by lumbermen and trappers.
- lartigue — Jacques Henri [zhahk ahn-ree] /ʒɑk ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1894–1986, French photographer and painter.
- lasering — Present participle of laser.
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- layering — a thickness of some material laid on or spread over a surface: a layer of soot on the window sill; two layers of paint.
- learning — knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application.
- 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
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- margaric — pearly; resembling a pearl.
- margarin — Archaic form of margarine.
- marginal — pertaining to a margin.
- margined — Having a margin.
- 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.
- 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.
- maturing — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- megafirm — A very large firm.
- 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.