8-letter words containing a, s, g
- sgabello — a side chair of the Renaissance, consisting of a small seat, usually octagonal, often resting on a cubical part and supported either on two carved planks set transversely on edge or on three legs, with a back formed from a carved plank.
- shadings — a slight variation or difference of color, character, etc.
- shafting — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- shag ass — to chase or follow after; pursue.
- shagbark — a hickory, Carya ovata, having shaggy, rough bark and yielding a valuable wood.
- shagpile — (of a carpet or rug) having long, rough fibres
- shagreen — an untanned leather with a granular surface, prepared from the hide of a horse, shark, seal, etc.
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- shamming — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- shandong — a maritime province in E China. 59,189 sq. mi. (153,299 sq. km). Capital: Jinan.
- shang ti — the chief of the ancient Chinese gods.
- shangaan — a member of any of the Tsonga-speaking Bantu peoples settled in Mozambique and NE Transvaal, esp one who works in a gold mine
- shanghai — to enroll or obtain (a sailor) for the crew of a ship by unscrupulous means, as by force or the use of liquor or drugs.
- shangqiu — a city in E Henan province, in E China.
- shantung — Shandong.
- shaoxing — a city in NE Zhejiang province, in E China.
- shaoyang — a city in central Hunan province, in E China.
- sharking — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- sharping — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- she-goat — a female goat
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- shealing — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shearing — Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- shenyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
- shigella — any of several rod-shaped aerobic bacteria of the genus Shigella, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other warm-blooded animals.
- shoaling — any large number of persons or things.
- shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
- show bag — a bag containing samples, promotional material, etc, given out at trade fairs and other such events
- si kiang — a river in S China, flowing E from Yunnan province to the South China Sea near Canton. 1250 miles (2012 km) long.
- siangtan — a city in E Hunan, in S China.
- sick bag — a bag provided on an aircraft or ship as a receptacle for vomit
- siegbahn — Karl Manne Georg [kahrl mahn-nuh yey-awr-yuh] /kɑrl ˈmɑn nə ˈyeɪ ɔr yə/ (Show IPA), 1886–1978, Swedish physicist: Nobel prize 1924.
- sigatoka — a disease of bananas, characterized by discolored spots on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Mycosphaerella musicola.
- sigmatic — characterized by a Greek letter sigma or a Roman S added to a word or stem
- signable — suitable for signing, as in being satisfactory, appropriate, or complete: a signable legislative bill.
- signaled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- signally — conspicuously; notably.
- signoria — the government of an Italian city-state
- singable — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- singular — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- sinkiang — Xinjiang
- sinsiang — a city in N Henan province, in E China.
- skiagram — a picture made by outlining and shading a subject's shadow.
- slacking — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- slag off — criticize, speak ill of
- slagging — Also called cinder. the more or less completely fused and vitrified matter separated during the reduction of a metal from its ore.
- slamming — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- slanging — very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.
- slangish — rather slangy
- slanting — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.