8-letter words containing e, l, g, r
- colleger — a member of a college
- cringles — Plural form of cringle.
- cudgeler — One who beats with a cudgel.
- dahlgren — John Adelphus Bernard, 1809–70, U.S. naval officer and inventor.
- danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- dirgeful — Having the qualities of a dirge; moaning.
- divulger — One who divulges something.
- doggerel — comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure. rude; crude; poor.
- draggled — Simple past tense and past participle of draggle.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- drugless — being without the use of drugs, as certain methods of medical treatment.
- earplugs — Plural form of earplug.
- eelgrass — a grasslike marine plant, Zostera marina, having ribbonlike leaves.
- egg roll — a cylindrical casing of egg dough filled with a minced mixture of meat or shrimp, bamboo shoots, onions, etc., and fried in deep fat.
- el greco — real name Domenikos Theotocopoulos. 1541–1614, Spanish painter, born in Crete; noted for his elongated human forms and dramatic use of colour
- en règle — in proper form or order
- engirdle — Surround; encircle.
- engrails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engrail.
- enlarged — Simple past tense and past participle of enlarge.
- enlargen — To enlarge.
- enlarger — An apparatus for enlarging or reducing negatives or positives.
- enlarges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enlarge.
- erlangen — a town in central Germany, in Bavaria: university (1743). Pop: 102 449 (2003 est)
- erlanger — Joseph. 1874–1965, US physiologist. He shared a Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1944) with Gasser for their work on the electrical signs of nervous activity
- erringly — In an erring manner; with mistakes or sins.
- feldgrau — the shade of grey worn by German soldiers in World War II
- feruling — Present participle of ferule.
- filagree — filigree.
- filigree — delicate ornamental work of fine silver, gold, or other metal wires, especially lacy jewelers' work of scrolls and arabesques.
- filmgoer — a person who attends motion-picture showings.
- finagler — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- fireplug — fire hydrant.
- fleering — Present participle of fleer.
- flighter — (of birds) to fly feebly; flutter.
- flingers — Plural form of flinger.
- floeberg — a mass of ice floes resembling an iceberg.
- floggers — Plural form of flogger.
- floorage — floor space.
- florigen — a hypothetical plant hormone produced in the leaves and transported to the apex to initiate flowering.
- forelegs — Plural form of foreleg.
- froglike — any tailless, stout-bodied amphibian of the order Anura, including the smooth, moist-skinned frog species that live in a damp or semiaquatic habitat and the warty, drier-skinned toad species that are mostly terrestrial as adults.
- gabblers — Plural form of gabbler.
- gabeller — a person who collected the gabelle; a tax-collector
- gabrieli — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1510–86, Italian organist and composer.
- gag rule — any rule restricting open discussion or debate concerning a given issue, especially in a deliberative body.
- galeries — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- galerius — full name Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus. ?250–311 ad, Eastern Roman Emperor (305–311): noted for his persecution of Christians
- galleria — a spacious passageway, court, or indoor mall, usually with a vaulted roof and lined with commercial establishments.
- galloper — One who gallops.
- gamblers — Plural form of gambler.