8-letter words containing a, s, g
- nutgrass — A perennial sedge, Cyperus rotundus, that has small edible nutlike tubers.
- oanshagh — a foolish girl or woman
- octagons — Plural form of octagon.
- offstage — off the stage or in the wings; away from the view of the audience (opposed to onstage).
- oghamist — Alternative capitalization of Oghamist.
- oogamous — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.
- oragious — stormy or tempestuous
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- organics — Plural form of organic.
- organise — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- organism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- organist — a person who plays the organ.
- orgasmed — Simple past tense and past participle of orgasm.
- orgasmic — the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- orgastic — the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- outrages — Plural form of outrage.
- overages — Plural form of overage.
- paganism — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- paganist — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- pangless — causing no pain
- pangloss — a person who views a situation with unwarranted optimism
- parasang — an ancient Persian unit of distance, equal to about 3.5 miles (5.6 km).
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- pingrass — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, with fernlike leaves
- placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- plussage — a surplus amount.
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- post-bag — mailbag.
- postages — the charge for the conveyance of a letter or other matter sent by mail, usually prepaid by means of a stamp or stamps.
- postgame — of, relating to, or happening in the period immediately following a sports game: Join us for the postgame wrap-up. Fans lost control in a postgame melee.
- postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
- praising — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- presager — a presentiment or foreboding.
- programs — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- ps-algol — Persistent ALGOL. ca 1981, released 1985. A derivative of S-ALGOL. Database capability derived from the longevity of data. "The PS- Algol Reference Manual", TR PPR-12-85, CS Dept, U Glasgow 1985. IBM PC version available from CS Dept, U Strathclyde, Glasgow.
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
- railings — a fence, balustrade, or barrier that consists of rails supported by posts
- ramsgate — a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
- rankings — the official list of the best players in a particular sport
- raspings — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- rawlings — Marjorie Kinnan [ki-nan] /kɪˈnæn/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, U.S. novelist and journalist.
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- reassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.