8-letter words containing d, g
- bridgend — a county borough in S Wales, created in 1996 from S Mid Glamorgan. Administrative centre: Bridgend. Pop: 129 900 (2003 est). Area: 264 sq km (102 sq miles)
- bridging — one or more timber struts fixed between floor or roof joists to stiffen the construction and distribute the loads
- bridgman — Percy Williams. 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics
- bridling — part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit, and reins.
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brooding — Brooding is used to describe an atmosphere or feeling that makes you feel anxious or slightly afraid.
- budgeree — excellent; fine
- budgerow — a large slow-moving barge formerly used on the Ganges
- budgeted — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
- budgeter — a person who budgets
- bug-eyed — A bug-eyed person or animal has eyes that stick out.
- buggered — If someone says that they will be buggered if they will do something, they mean that they do not want to do it and they will definitely not do it.
- building — A building is a structure that has a roof and walls, for example a house or a factory.
- bundling — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
- burbidge — (Eleanor) Margaret (Peachey) [pee-chee] /ˈpi tʃi/ (Show IPA), born 1919, U.S. astronomer, born in England.
- burgundy — Burgundy is used to describe things that are purplish-red in colour.
- cabbaged — Chiefly British. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
- caddying — Present participle of caddy.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- candling — a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light.
- candying — any of a variety of confections made with sugar, syrup, etc., often combined with chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.
- cant dog — cant hook
- carangid — any marine percoid fish of the family Carangidae, having a compressed body and deeply forked tail. The group includes the jacks, horse mackerel, pompano, and pilot fish
- cardigan — A cardigan is a knitted woollen sweater that you can fasten at the front with buttons or a zip.
- caudling — Present participle of caudle.
- cga card — a computer card for the display of graphics in colour introduced by IBM in 1981
- chidings — Plural form of chiding.
- childing — bearing a child; pregnant
- chilidog — A hot dog made with chili con carne.
- chlodwig — German name of Clovis I.
- chording — the distribution of chords throughout a piece of harmony
- claddagh — Irish ring
- cladding — Cladding is a covering of tiles, wooden boards, or other material that is fixed to the outside of a building to protect it against bad weather or to make it look more attractive.
- cloudage — a mass of clouds
- clouding — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- coddling — Act in a sissifying way.
- codesign — to design jointly
- codlings — Plural form of codling.
- codology — the art or practice of bluffing or deception
- cognized — Simple past tense and past participle of cognize.
- collaged — a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
- colledge — Obsolete form of college.
- cologned — Perfumed with cologne.
- coolidge — (John) Calvin. 1872–1933, 30th president of the US (1923–29)
- coon dog — any dog trained to hunt raccoons.
- corn dog — a frankfurter coated in cornmeal batter before frying
- cosigned — Simple past tense and past participle of cosign.
- cotingid — (zoology) Any member of the Cotingidae.
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.