8-letter words containing f, a, g
- gonfanon — a gonfalon that hangs directly from a pole, especially from the shaft of a lance just below the lance head.
- goofball — an extremely incompetent, eccentric, or silly person.
- graceful — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- graffiti — plural of graffito.
- graffito — Archaeology. an ancient drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface.
- graftage — the art or practice of inserting a part of one plant into another plant in such a way that the two will unite and continue their growth.
- grafters — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
- grafting — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
- grateful — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- gray fox — a fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, ranging from Central America through the southwestern and eastern U.S., having blackish-gray upper parts and rusty-yellowish feet, legs, and ears.
- grayfish — a name used in marketing for any of several American sharks, especially the dogfishes of the genus Squalus.
- greatful — Misspelling of grateful.
- groanful — sad or marked by groaning
- grow fat — If you say that a person or organization has grown fat on something, you mean that they have become very rich as a result of it.
- guffawed — a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter.
- gulf war — a conflict (Jan.–Feb. 1991) between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
- haffling — Present participle of haffle.
- halfling — (in fiction and fantasy) a member of a race of small people.
- hangfire — a delay in the detonation of gunpowder or other ammunition, caused by some defect in the fuze.
- in a fog — dazed
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- ingrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingraft.
- isograft — syngraft.
- java fig — a small tree, Ficus benjamina, of the mulberry family, native to southeastern Asia and Australia, having drooping branches and glossy leaves: widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- jungfrau — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. 13,668 feet (4166 meters).
- koftgari — the art of inlaying steel with gold
- la farge — John, 1835–1910, U.S. painter, stained-glass designer, and writer.
- laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
- lagerlof — Selma (Ottiliana Lovisa) [sel-mah awt-ti-lee-ah-nah loo-vi-sah] /ˈsɛl mɑ ˌɔt tɪ liˈɑ nɑ ˈlu vɪˌsɑ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1940, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1909.
- langlauf — the sport of cross-country skiing.
- laughful — full of laughter
- leaf gap — (in the stele of vascular plants) a break in the tissue of a stem around a leaf trace.
- leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- liftgate — hatch2 (def 9b).
- longleaf — A longleaf pine, Pirus palustris, or the wood of this tree.
- mafeking — a town in N Republic of South Africa: former administrative seat of Bechuanaland; besieged for 217 days by Boers 1899–1900.
- mafikeng — a town in N South Africa: besieged by the Boers for 217 days (1899–1900) during the second Boer War: administrative headquarters of the British protectorate of Bechuanaland until 1965, although outside its borders. Pop: 23 650 (2001)
- magnific — magnificent; imposing.
- megafirm — A very large firm.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- misgraff — badly matched
- misgraft — to graft wrongly
- naufrage — (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin.
- offstage — off the stage or in the wings; away from the view of the audience (opposed to onstage).
- packfong — a Chinese cupronickel alloy
- pig farm — a farm where pigs are kept and reared
- quaffing — to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
- raffling — a form of lottery in which a number of persons buy one or more chances to win a prize.
- red flag — communist symbol
- red-flag — to mark or draw attention to for a particular purpose: The department has red-flagged the most urgent repair work to be done.