8-letter words containing e, g
- auvergne — a region of S central France: largely mountainous, rising over 1800 m (6000 ft)
- avengers — to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult.
- avenging — taking vengeance on someone or something for a wrong done
- averaged — Simple past tense and past participle of average.
- averager — person who calculates average claims
- averages — Achieve or amount to as an average rate or amount over a period of time.
- averring — to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- awninged — sheltered by or covered with an awning
- badgered — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badgerer — One who badgers.
- badgerly — resembling a badger
- badigeon — a composition for patching surface defects in carpentry or masonry.
- badinage — Badinage is humorous or light-hearted conversation that often involves teasing someone.
- baggages — Plural form of baggage.
- bagheera — a crush-resistant velvet made of uncut pile and used in the manufacture of evening wear and wraps.
- baghouse — a dust-filtering chamber consisting of fabric filter bags
- bagpiper — a person who plays the bagpipes
- bagpipes — Bagpipes are a musical instrument that is traditionally played in Scotland. You play the bagpipes by blowing air through a pipe into a bag, and then squeezing the bag to force the air out through other pipes.
- baguette — A baguette is a type of long, thin, white bread which is traditionally made in France.
- balaguer — Joaquin (ˈjoːakɪn). 1907–2002, Dominican statesman; president of the Dominican Republic (1960–62, 1966–78, 1986–96)
- balayage — a technique for highlighting hair in which bleach or dye is painted onto sections of the hair with a brush
- balisage — a method of marking a land route with dim lighting so that vehicles can travel at higher speeds in blackout conditions.
- ballgame — any game played with a ball
- bandaged — Simple past tense and past participle of bandage.
- bandager — someone who bandages
- bandages — Plural form of bandage.
- bandoeng — Bandung.
- bangable — (slang) Sexually attractive.
- bangster — a ruffian; thug
- bantengs — Plural form of banteng.
- bar game — any game or contest that takes place in a pub
- baregine — a whitish, mucilaginous substance found in the thermal waters of Barèges in France, considered to have healing properties
- barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
- bargello — a needlepoint embroidery stitch producing a zigzag pattern
- bargeman — a man who operates, or works aboard, a barge
- bargemen — Plural form of bargeman.
- barghest — (in the North of England, esp Yorkshire) a goblin that appears in the shape of a dog as an omen of death or other misfortune
- barn egg — an egg laid by a chicken that is allowed to move freely within a barn
- baronage — barons collectively
- barraged — Simple past tense and past participle of barrage.
- barrages — Plural form of barrage.
- bastogne — a town in SE Belgium: of strategic importance to Allied defences during the Battle of the Bulge; besieged by the Germans during the winter of 1944–45. Pop: 14 070 (2004 est)
- be along — to come or arrive
- be dying — to be eager or desperate (for something or to do something)
- be going — to intend or be about to start (to do or be doing something): often used as an alternative future construction
- beachbag — a large handbag, sometimes of canvas, used to carry personal items, as a bathing suit, towel, and suntan lotion, to and from a beach.
- beaching — an expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore.
- beadings — Plural form of beading.
- beagling — hunting with beagle hounds.