8-letter words containing e, r, a, g
- outrages — Plural form of outrage.
- outrange — to have a longer or greater range than.
- over-age — If you are over-age, you are officially too old to do something.
- overaged — Aged too much.
- overages — Plural form of overage.
- overgall — to make sore all over
- overgang — to dominate
- overgear — to cause (a company) to have too high a proportion of loan stock and preference shares in comparison to its ordinary share capital
- overglad — too glad
- overgoad — to goad excessively
- overhang — to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
- packager — a person or business firm that packages a product or merchandise for commercial sale: a soap packager.
- palgrave — Francis Turner, 1824–97, English critic, poet, and anthologist.
- palmgren — Selim [sel-im,, sey-lim;; Finnish se-lim] /ˈsɛl ɪm,, ˈseɪ lɪm;; Finnish ˈsɛ lɪm/ (Show IPA), 1878–1951, Finnish pianist and composer.
- panegyry — a panegyric
- paragoge — the addition of a sound or group of sounds at the end of a word, as in the nonstandard pronunciation of height as height-th or once as once-t.
- parergon — something that is an accessory to a main work or subject; embellishment.
- pargeter — a plasterer
- paygrade — a level on a pay scale
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- pellagra — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- pergamon — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pillager — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- pre-aged — (used with a plural verb) old people collectively (usually preceded by the): We must have improved medical care for the aged.
- pregnant — convincing; cogent: a pregnant argument.
- pregrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- preimage — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- prelegal — permitted by law; lawful: Such acts are not legal.
- presager — a presentiment or foreboding.
- progeria — a rare congenital abnormality characterized by premature and rapid aging, the affected individual appearing in childhood as an aged person and having a shortened life span.
- prograde — to (cause to) advance towards the sea by progradation
- prophage — a stable, inherited form of bacteriophage in which the genetic material of the virus is integrated into, replicated, and expressed with the genetic material of the bacterial host.
- puggaree — pugree.
- quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- racegoer — One who attends horse races.
- racinage — decorative treatment of leather with colors and acids to produce a branchlike effect.
- radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
- rag week — students' annual charity fundraiser
- raggedly — clothed in tattered garments: a ragged old man.
- ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
- ragtimer — a person who plays ragtime music
- ragwheel — a chain or sprocket wheel
- ramsgate — a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
- ratingen — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia in W central Germany, N of Dusseldorf.
- raveling — a tangle or complication.