8-letter words containing a, r, s, g
- snot-rag — a handkerchief.
- sonogram — the visual image produced by reflected sound waves in a diagnostic ultrasound examination.
- sour gas — Sour gas is natural gas with a high sulfur content.
- spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
- spangler — a person who spangles
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- sparring — a motion of sparring.
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- spingarn — Joel Elias, 1875–1939, U.S. literary critic, publisher, and editor.
- sprangle — to struggle or sprawl with limbs spread out wide
- 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.
- staggard — a four-year-old male red deer.
- staggart — a four-year-old male red deer.
- staggers — to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
- staggery — tending to stagger
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- stargaze — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- 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
- steerage — a part or division of a ship, formerly the part containing the steering apparatus.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- sternage — the stern or rear of a ship
- 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.
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- straggle — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- straggly — straggling; rambling.
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- stravage — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- 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.
- strewage — strewn or discarded items
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- subgrade — the prepared earth surface on which a pavement or the ballast of a railroad track is placed or upon which the foundation of a structure is built.
- subgraph — a graph linked with another graph
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- 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.
- sun gear — (in an epicyclic train) the central gear around which the planet gears revolve.
- surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- swingarm — the main part of the rear suspension on a motorcycle
- syngraft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- syngraph — a document signed by all parties