8-letter words containing a, s, g
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- savagely — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
- savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- savaging — fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
- savagism — barbarism; savagery.
- savegard — safe conduct, protection
- savoring — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- saw edge — the serrated edge of a saw
- sawgrass — any of various sedges of the genus Cladium, of tropical and temperate regions, having spiny, serrated leaves.
- scalawag — a scamp; rascal.
- scalding — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- scaliger — Joseph Justus [juhs-tuh s] /ˈdʒʌs təs/ (Show IPA), 1540–1609, French scholar and critic.
- scalping — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scamming — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- scamping — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- scanning — the act of examining with a scanner
- scarfing — a long, broad strip of wool, silk, lace, or other material worn about the neck, shoulders, or head, for ornament or protection against cold, drafts, etc.; muffler.
- scargill — Arthur. born 1938, British trades union leader; president of the National Union of Mineworkers (1982–2002). He led the miners in a long and bitter strike (1984–85), but failed to prevent pit closures
- scarmoge — a skirmish or minor conflict
- scarring — a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- scatting — to sing by making full or partial use of the technique of scat singing.
- scavager — a person whose responsibility is to ensure the streets are kept clean
- scavenge — to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.
- schlager — a type of European popular music focusing on love and feelings
- scragged — a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- scraggly — irregular; uneven; jagged.
- scraping — an act or instance of scraping.
- screwage — /skroo'*j/ Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
- scuzzbag — a despicable or unethical person
- sea gate — a navigable channel giving access to the sea.
- sea gull — a play (1896) by Anton Chekhov.
- sea king — one of the piratical Scandinavian chiefs who ravaged the coasts of medieval Europe.
- sea legs — the ability to maintain one's balance on board ship, esp in rough weather
- sea slug — a nudibranch.
- sea-girt — surrounded by the sea.
- seagoing — designed or fit for going to sea, as a vessel.
- seagrass — Seagrass is a plant that grows in shallow salt water and is used especially to make mats and floor coverings.
- seahenge — a Bronze Age timber circle discovered off the coast of Norfolk in E England. Dating from 2050 bc, it is thought to have been used as a ceremonial site
- seal dog — an iron hook used for dragging seal carcasses over the ice.
- seal leg — A seal leg is an open pipe which contains particles that gas cannot leak through.
- segreant — (of a griffin) rampant.
- seladang — the gaur.
- selangor — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 3160 sq. mi. (8184 sq. km). Capital: Shah Alam.
- selvagee — rope wound round and used as straps or stoppers on ships
- semarang — a seaport on N Java, in S Indonesia.
- semigala — an event similar to a gala but on a lesser scale; an occasion that is festive but not to the degree of a gala
- seraglio — the part of a Muslim house or palace in which the wives and concubines are secluded; harem.
- sergeant — Ancient Eboracum. a city in North Yorkshire, in NE England, on the Ouse: the capital of Roman Britain; cathedral.
- sewerage — the removal of waste water and refuse by means of sewers.