8-letter words containing a, u, g, r
- guttural — of or relating to the throat.
- habsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hapsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harangue — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- hatguard — a string to keep a hat from blowing off
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- jugurtha — died 104 b.c, king of Numidia 113–104.
- jungfrau — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. 13,668 feet (4166 meters).
- laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
- laguerre — Edmond-Nicolas [ed-mawn-nee-kaw-lah] /ɛd mɔ̃ ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1834–86, French mathematician.
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- languour — Alternative spelling of languor.
- lartigue — Jacques Henri [zhahk ahn-ree] /ʒɑk ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1894–1986, French photographer and painter.
- laughers — Plural form of laugher.
- laughter — the action or sound of laughing.
- leaguers — Plural form of leaguer.
- legatura — (music) A tie or brace; a syncopation.
- ligature — the act of binding or tying up: The ligature of the artery was done with skill.
- ligurian — an apparently Indo-European language used in ancient times along the NW coast of the Ligurian Sea.
- lingular — a tongue-shaped organ, process, or tissue.
- manuring — excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- maturing — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- megahurt — (computer slang, rare) megahertz.
- mudguard — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- musgrave — Thea. born 1928, Scottish composer, noted esp for her operas
- nagurski — Bronislaw [bron-uh-slof] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɒf/ (Show IPA), ("Bronko") 1908–1990, U.S. football player, born in Canada.
- naturing — Present participle of nature.
- naufrage — (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin.
- nonsugar — a substance that is not a sugar
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- nuraghic — relating to the Bronze Age Sardinian civilization that is distinguished by nuraghe
- nutgrass — A perennial sedge, Cyperus rotundus, that has small edible nutlike tubers.
- oliguria — scantiness of urine due to diminished secretion.
- on guard — prepared, at the ready
- oragious — stormy or tempestuous
- origanum — An aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- outargue — to outdo or defeat in arguing: That man could outargue the devil himself.
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outguard — a guard placed furthest away from the main contingent of an army
- outraged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrage.
- outrages — Plural form of outrage.
- outrange — to have a longer or greater range than.
- pagurian — a hermit crab, especially of the genus Pagurus.
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- paraguay — a republic in central South America between Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. 157,047 sq. mi. (406,750 sq. km). Capital: Asunción.
- pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.