8-letter words containing a, s, g
- stabbing — penetrating; piercing: a stabbing pain.
- stabling — a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
- stacking — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- staffage — all of the additional figures, animals and other items of ornamentation in a painted scene or landscape, as distinct from the main figures or elements of the composition
- staffing — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- stageful — the number of people, or the amount of something, that fills a stage
- stagette — (as modifier)
- 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
- stagging — an adult male deer.
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- stagnant — not flowing or running, as water, air, etc.
- stagnate — to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
- staining — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- stalagma — a stalagmite
- stalking — an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
- stallage — the right to set up a stall in a fair or market.
- standing — rank or status, especially with respect to social, economic, or personal position, reputation, etc.: He had little standing in the community.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- 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
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- stealage — the act of stealing.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- 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
- stigmata — a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
- stillage — a low platform on which goods are stored in a warehouse or factory to keep them off the floor, to aid in handling, etc. Compare skid (def 3).
- stilyaga — (formerly, in the Soviet Union) a person, usually young, who adopted the unconventional manner and dress of some Western youth groups, as rockers or punk-rock fans.
- 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.
- stoating — the process or technique of finishing a facing, collar, or the like, or of mending material with concealed stitching.
- stockage — supplies
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- 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.