8-letter words containing e, g, r, s
- svedberg — The(odor) [tey-oh-dawr] /ˈteɪ oʊˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1884–1971, Swedish chemist: Nobel prize 1926.
- swingers — a person or thing that swings.
- synergic — the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism.
- synergid — one of two small cells that lie inside the embryo sac of a flowering plant and nourish the ovum.
- syringes — a small device consisting of a glass, metal, or hard rubber tube, narrowed at its outlet, and fitted with either a piston or a rubber bulb for drawing in a quantity of fluid or for ejecting fluid in a stream, for cleaning wounds, injecting fluids into the body, etc.
- tear gas — Tear gas is a gas that causes your eyes to sting and fill with tears so that you cannot see. It is sometimes used by the police or army to control crowds.
- tear-gas — to subject to tear gas.
- thesiger — Wilfred (Patrick). 1910–2003, British writer, who explored the Empty Quarter of Arabia (1945–50) and lived with the Iraqi marsh Arabs (1950–58). His books include Arabian Sands (1958), The Marsh Arabs (1964), and My Kenya Days (1994)
- tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
- tigerism — an arrogant and showy manner
- tongster — a tong member (a member of a Chinese secret society)
- upstager — someone who upstages
- urostege — an underside plate on a serpent's tail
- vagaries — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
- visegrad — a town in N Hungary, NW of Budapest on the Danube: site of summit in 1991 of the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
- wargames — (recreation) (Not "War Games") A 1983 film about a schoolboy cracker using a wardialer to try to break into a games company's computer and accidentally connecting to a backdoor into "Whopper", a ficticious C3 computer at Norad (USAF). He then procedes to unwittingly initiate global thermonuclear warfare. Playing naughts and crosses finally teaches Whopper that the only way to win the game is never to play.
- weighers — Plural form of weigher.
- whingers — Plural form of whinger.
- wigglers — Plural form of wiggler.
- wordages — Plural form of wordage.
- wrangles — Plural form of wrangle.
- wresting — Present participle of wrest.
- wriggles — Plural form of wriggle.
- wringers — Plural form of wringer.
- wrongest — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- yardages — Plural form of yardage.
- youngers — Plural form of younger.