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8-letter words containing e, g, r, s

  • pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
  • pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
  • postgres — (database)   An active DBMS developed at the University of California at Berkeley by a team led by Michael Stonebraker (1986-1994). Postgres was later taken by Illustra and developed into a commercial product, which in turn was bought by Informix and integrated into their product, Universal Server.
  • preggers — pregnant1 (def 1).
  • presager — a presentiment or foreboding.
  • pressing — urgent; demanding immediate attention: a pressing need.
  • prestige — reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes.
  • prognose — to predict the course of (disease)
  • progreso — a city in NW Honduras.
  • progress — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
  • ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
  • ramsgate — a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
  • readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
  • reassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
  • red sage — a showy, rank-smelling shrub, Lantana camara, of tropical America, having yellow flowers that turn orange or red.
  • redesign — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
  • redigest — to digest again
  • refugees — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
  • refusing — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
  • regalism — the principle that royalty have the highest power, esp when referring to church affairs
  • regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism
  • register — a list or record of such acts, events, etc.
  • registry — Windows Registry
  • reingest — to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
  • remerges — to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
  • residing — to replace the siding on (a building).
  • resigned — submissive or acquiescent.
  • resignee — a person who has resigned or is about to resign.
  • resining — any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
  • resiting — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
  • resought — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
  • respighi — Ottorino [awt-taw-ree-naw] /ˌɔt tɔˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1879–1936, Italian composer.
  • respring — to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.
  • restring — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • restrung — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • resuming — to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue: to resume a journey.
  • rhagades — linear cracks or scars found in the skin at the angles of the nose and mouth which are one of the later signs of congenital syphilis
  • riesling — Horticulture. a variety of grape. the vine bearing this grape, grown in Europe and California.
  • rightest — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • ringless — a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
  • ringlets — locks of hair hanging down in spiral curls
  • ringside — the area immediately surrounding a ring, especially the area occupied by the first row of seats on all sides of a boxing or wrestling ring.
  • ringster — a member of a ring, especially a political or price-fixing ring.
  • ringwise — (of a boxer) used to being in a boxing ring and able to respond appropriately
  • roseburg — a city in W Oregon.
  • roseslug — any of various types of pest that feed on roses
  • roughest — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
  • rugulose — finely rugose; having many small wrinkles.
  • rungless — one of the crosspieces, usually rounded, forming the steps of a ladder.
  • ryegrass — any of several European grasses of the genus Lolium, as L. perenne (perennial ryegrass) grown for forage in the U.S.
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