8-letter words containing d, a, n, g, l
- golconda — a ruined city in S India, near the modern city of Hyderabad: capital of a former Muslim kingdom; famous for its diamond cutting.
- gondolas — Plural form of gondola.
- grønland — Greenland
- gumlands — infertile land from which the original kauri bush has been removed or burnt producing only kauri gum
- hand log — chip log.
- handling — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- headling — (obsolete) An equal; a fellow; mate.
- headlong — with the head foremost; headfirst: to plunge headlong into the water.
- highland — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
- hoagland — Edward, born 1932, U.S. novelist and essayist.
- inlarged — Simple past tense and past participle of inlarge.
- landgrab — the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
- landings — Plural form of landing.
- langered — (slang, Ireland) extremely drunk.
- langland — William, 1332?–c1400, English poet.
- largando — allargando.
- largened — Simple past tense and past participle of largen.
- leadings — Plural form of leading.
- liaodong — a peninsula in NE China, extending S into the Yellow Sea.
- loadings — Plural form of loading.
- long-day — requiring a long photoperiod in order to flower.
- longhand — writing of the ordinary kind, in which words are written out in full (distinguished from shorthand).
- longhead — a dolichocephalic person.
- magdalen — the, Mary Magdalene.
- maligned — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- maudling — Present participle of maudle.
- medaling — a flat piece of metal, often a disk but sometimes a cross, star, or other form, usually bearing an inscription or design, issued to commemorate a person, action, or event, or given as a reward for bravery, merit, or the like: a gold medal for the best swimmer.
- nagaland — a state in NE India. 6366 sq. mi. (16,488 sq. km). Capital: Kohima.
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- raddling — Present participle of raddle.
- reginald — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “counsel and rule.”.
- saddling — a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
- salading — the ingredients for a salad
- sandling — a sand eel
- scalding — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- seladang — the gaur.
- 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.
- spalding — Albert, 1888–1953, U.S. violinist.
- spangled — Something that is spangled is covered with small shiny objects.
- togoland — a former German protectorate in W Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: E part is now the Republic of Togo; W part, a British mandate 1922–46 and trusteeship 1946–57, is now part of Ghana.
- ungalled — not irritated or abraded
- unglazed — having a surface covered with a glaze; lustrous; smooth; glassy.
- waddling — Present participle of waddle.
- windgall — a puffy distention of the synovial bursa at the fetlock joint.
- wrangled — to argue or dispute, especially in a noisy or angry manner.