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8-letter words containing a, r, i, g

  • springal — a young man
  • squirage — squires considered as a whole group
  • srinagar — Also, Cashmere. a former princely state in SW Asia, adjacent to India, Pakistan, Sinkiang, and Tibet: sovereignty in dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.
  • starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
  • starring — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
  • starving — very hungry
  • sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
  • stingray — any of the rays, especially of the family Dasyatidae, having a long, flexible tail armed near the base with a strong, serrated bony spine with which they can inflict painful wounds.
  • strafing — an act or instance of strafing
  • straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • stravaig — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
  • straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
  • strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
  • sugaring — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
  • surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
  • swingarm — the main part of the rear suspension on a motorcycle
  • tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
  • taghairm — a form of divination once practised in the Highlands of Scotland
  • tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
  • tarrying — to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn: He tarried in Baltimore on his way to Washington.
  • teraglin — an edible marine fish, Zeluco atelodus, of Australia which has fine scales and is blue in colour
  • thirlage — an obligation imposed upon tenants of certain lands requiring them to have their grain ground at a specified mill
  • thrawing — British Dialect. to throw.
  • tigridia — any plant of the bulbous genus Tigridia, native to subtropical and tropical America, esp T. pavonia, the tiger flower or peacock tiger flower, grown for its large strikingly marked red, white, or yellow concave flowers: family Iridaceae
  • tigrinya — a Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia.
  • titograd — former name (1945–92) of Podgorica.
  • tracking — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • tragical — characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
  • traiking — to become ill or lose one's good health.
  • trailing — to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
  • training — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
  • tramming — trammel (def 3).
  • tramping — the act of tramping.
  • trancing — a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
  • transing — to move or walk rapidly or briskly.
  • trapping — traps, Informal. personal belongings; baggage.
  • trashing — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
  • trawling — fishing using a trawl net or trawl line
  • triangle — a closed plane figure having three sides and three angles.
  • trigonal — of, relating to, or shaped like a triangle; having three angles; triangular.
  • trigraph — a group of three letters representing a single speech sound, as eau in beau.
  • ugaritic — of or relating to Ugarit, its people, or their language.
  • umpirage — the office or authority of an umpire.
  • uncaring — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
  • undaring — lacking a sense of adventure
  • vagaries — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
  • vagarish — vaguely or somewhat vagarious; relating to a whim
  • vaporing — that gives forth vapor.
  • varginha — a city in E Brazil.
  • verbiage — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
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