8-letter words containing a, s, g
- slashing — a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
- slatting — a slap; a sharp blow.
- sleaving — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- slippage — an act or instance of slipping.
- slugabed — a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.
- sluggard — a person who is habitually inactive or lazy.
- smacking — smart, brisk, or strong, as a breeze.
- smallage — the celery, Apium graveolens, especially in its wild state.
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- smashing — of, relating to, or constituting a great success: That composer has written many smash tunes.
- snacking — a small portion of food or drink or a light meal, especially one eaten between regular meals.
- snagging — a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
- snapping — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- sneaking — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- snot rag — a handkerchief
- snot-rag — a handkerchief.
- sogdiana — a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.
- solidago — any plant of the chiefly American genus Solidago, which includes the goldenrods: family Asteraceae (composites)
- somegate — in some manner
- 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.
- spacings — an act of someone or something that spaces.
- spagyric — pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.
- spalding — Albert, 1888–1953, U.S. violinist.
- spalling — a chip or splinter, as of stone or ore.
- spamming — (lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively): Install spam blocker software and keep your email spam filters updated to protect your accounts from unsolicited spam.
- spanghew — to throw into the air
- spangled — Something that is spangled is covered with small shiny objects.
- spangler — a person who spangles
- spanglet — a little spangle
- spanking — to strike (a person, usually a child) with the open hand, a slipper, etc., especially on the buttocks, as in punishment.
- spanning — the distance between the tip of the thumb and the tip of the little finger when the hand is fully extended.
- sparling — the European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus.
- sparring — a motion of sparring.
- spawning — Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
- spazzing — an awkward or clumsy person.
- speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- 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.
- sphagnum — any soft moss of the genus Sphagnum, occurring chiefly in bogs, used for potting and packing plants, for dressing wounds, etc.
- spillage — the act or process of spilling.
- spingarn — Joel Elias, 1875–1939, U.S. literary critic, publisher, and editor.
- splaying — to spread out, expand, or extend.
- spoilage — the act of spoiling or the state of being spoiled.
- spousage — marriage
- sprangle — to struggle or sprawl with limbs spread out wide
- springal — a young man
- spyglass — a small telescope.
- 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.