8-letter words containing d, g
- margined — Having a margin.
- marigold — any of several chiefly golden-flowered composite plants, especially of the genus Tagetes, as T. erecta, having strong-scented foliage and yielding an oil that repels root parasites.
- massaged — Simple past tense and past participle of massage.
- maudling — Present participle of maudle.
- meagered — Simple past tense and past participle of meager.
- 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.
- meddling — to involve oneself in a matter without right or invitation; interfere officiously and unwantedly: Stop meddling in my personal life!
- megaband — (music, informal) A particularly successful band.
- megadeal — a large business transaction.
- megadebt — An enormous debt.
- megadont — macrodont.
- megadose — a dose many times the usual amount, as of a vitamin or drug.
- megadyne — a unit of force equal to one million dynes
- megapode — any of several large-footed, short-winged gallinaceous Australasian birds of the family Megapodiidae, typically building a compostlike mound of decaying vegetation as an incubator for their eggs.
- mendings — Plural form of mending.
- messaged — Simple past tense and past participle of message.
- middling — equally distant from the extremes or outer limits; central: the middle point of a line; the middle singer in a trio.
- midhinge — (statistics) A measure of location of a batch or sample equal to the average of the first and third quartiles. Equivalently, it is the 25% trimmed mid-range;.
- midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- midrange — of, relating to, or occupying the middle audio frequencies: a midrange frequency.
- migrated — to go from one country, region, or place to another. Synonyms: move, resettle, relocate. Antonyms: remain.
- misdight — to mismanage or treat badly
- misdoing — A misdeed.
- misgrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- misguide — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- misjudge — Form a wrong opinion or conclusion about.
- mislodge — to lodge or accommodate wrongly
- mitnaged — an orthodox opponent of Chassidism
- modeling — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
- moldings — Plural form of molding.
- mongered — Simple past tense and past participle of monger.
- montaged — Simple past tense and past participle of montage.
- moon dog — paraselene.
- moon-dog — paraselene.
- moulding — a growth of minute fungi forming on vegetable or animal matter, commonly as a downy or furry coating, and associated with decay or dampness.
- mounding — a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.
- mridanga — an ancient drum of India shaped like a long conical barrel with two tuned heads of different sizes.
- muddling — Present participle of muddle.
- muddying — Cause to become covered in or full of mud.
- mudguard — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mundungo — (in Spain) tripe
- nagaland — a state in NE India. 6366 sq. mi. (16,488 sq. km). Capital: Kohima.
- needling — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- nerdgasm — a feeling of intense excitement felt by someone considered to be a nerd, esp. when caused by something relating to his or her leisure interests such as a new piece of technology, computer game, science fiction film, etc.
- niggards — Plural form of niggard.
- nonrigid — not rigid.
- noodling — to improvise a musical passage in a casual manner, especially as a warm-up exercise.
- norridge — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- novgorod — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, SE of St. Petersburg: a former capital of Russia.
- nutsedge — An invasive sedge with small edible nutlike tubers.