8-letter words containing d, g
- edifying — to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift: religious paintings that edify the viewer.
- edinburg — a city in S Texas.
- eggheads — Plural form of egghead.
- egressed — Simple past tense and past participle of egress.
- elegized — Simple past tense and past participle of elegize.
- emending — Present participle of emend.
- en garde — ready to defend oneself
- encoding — (computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
- endamage — (archaic) To damage.
- endanger — Put (someone or something) at risk or in danger.
- endgames — Plural form of endgame.
- endogamy — The custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe.
- endogeny — Growth from within.
- endowing — Present participle of endow.
- enduring — Continuing or long-lasting.
- engadine — the upper part of the valley of the River Inn in Switzerland, in Graubünden canton: tourist and winter sports centre
- engender — Cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition).
- engirdle — Surround; encircle.
- engorged — Simple past tense and past participle of engorge.
- engouled — (of a cross, bend, etc) disappearing into the mouth of an animal
- engraved — Cut or carve (a text or design) on the surface of a hard object.
- engulfed — (of a natural force) Sweep over (something) so as to surround or cover it completely.
- enlarged — Simple past tense and past participle of enlarge.
- enranged — Simple past tense and past participle of enrange.
- enridged — ridged
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- euglenid — A kind of flagellate distinguished mainly by the presence of a pellicle composed of proteinaceous strips underneath the cell membrane, supported by dorsal and ventral microtubules.
- exceding — Present participle of excede.
- exciding — Present participle of excide.
- exegeted — Simple past tense and past participle of exegete.
- expugned — Simple past tense and past participle of expugn.
- expunged — Simple past tense and past participle of expunge.
- fandango — a lively Spanish or Spanish-American dance in triple time, performed by a man and woman playing castanets.
- fanegada — a unit of land measure in Spanish-speaking countries varying from 1.25 to 1.75 acres (0.5 to 0.7 hectare).
- fatigued — of or relating to fatigues or any clothing made to resemble them: The guerrilla band wore fatigue pants and field jackets. She brought fatigue shorts to wear on the hike.
- feed bag — Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.
- feedbags — Plural form of feedbag.
- feedings — Plural form of feeding.
- feelgood — Informal. intended to make one happy or satisfied: a feel-good movie; feel-good politics.
- feldgrau — the shade of grey worn by German soldiers in World War II
- fenagled — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- fiddling — trifling; trivial: a fiddling sum of money.
- fidgeted — to move about restlessly, nervously, or impatiently.
- fidgeter — a person who fidgets
- fielding — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
- fiending — Satan; the devil.
- fig-bird — any Australian oriole of the genus Sphecotheres, feeding on figs and other fruit
- finagled — Simple past tense and past participle of finagle.
- findings — the act of a person or thing that finds; discovery.
- fingered — having fingers, especially of a specified kind or number (often used in combination): a five-fingered glove.