8-letter words containing e, r, a, g, o
- escargot — A snail, especially as an item on a menu.
- estragon — Tarragon.
- ethogram — a description of an animal's behaviour
- fairgoer — a person attending a fair
- far gone — departed; left.
- far-gone — remote.
- floorage — floor space.
- footgear — covering for the feet, as shoes, boots, etc.
- foragers — food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.
- frondage — (collectively) the fronds (of a plant)
- frontage — the front of a building or lot.
- frottage — a technique in the visual arts of obtaining textural effects or images by rubbing lead, chalk, charcoal, etc., over paper laid on a granular or relieflike surface. Compare rubbing (def 2).
- gaborone — a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 275,000 sq. mi. (712,250 sq. km). Capital: Gaborone.
- galloper — One who gallops.
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- gargoyle — a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
- garotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garotter — garrote.
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garroter — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garrotes — Plural form of garrote.
- garrotte — to execute by the garrote.
- gasolier — a chandelier furnished with gaslights.
- gastero- — gastro-
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- genogram — a graphic representation of the personalities and interplay of generations within a family, used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior; a psychological family tree.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- geolatry — the worship of the earth
- georgann — a female given name.
- georgian — of or relating to the period of British history from the accession of George I in 1714 to the death of George IV in 1830, or the four kings named George who reigned successively during this period.
- georgina — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- geraniol — a colorless or pale-yellow terpene alcohol, C 10 H 18 O, with a geraniumlike odor, found in rose oil, soluble in alcohol and ether, insoluble in water: used in perfumes and flavors.
- germano- — German, German and
- geropiga — a grape syrup used to sweeten inferior port wines
- gheraoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gherao.
- gheraoes — Plural form of gherao.
- girasole — an opal that reflects light in a bright luminous glow.
- glareous — growing in gravel
- glendora — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- go after — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- goadster — a goadsman
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- goodyear — Charles, 1800–60, U.S. inventor: developer of the process of vulcanizing rubber.
- gossaert — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), Mabuse, Jan.
- gossamer — a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
- great go — great (def 20).
- great on — enthusiastic about
- groaners — Plural form of groaner.
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.