8-letter words containing g, a, e, t
- antigone — daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who was condemned to death for cremating the body of her brother Polynices in defiance of an edict of her uncle, King Creon of Thebes
- apothegm — a short, pithy saying (Ex.: “Brevity is the soul of wit”)
- argental — relating to or containing silver
- argentic — of or containing silver in the divalent or trivalent state
- argentum — silver. Symbol: Ag.
- argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
- argutely — in an argute manner
- armitage — Simon (Robert). born 1963, British poet and writer, whose collections include Zoom! (1989), Killing Time (1999), and Universal Home Doctor (2002)
- arrogate — If someone arrogates to themselves something such as a responsibility or privilege, they claim or take it even though they have no right to do so.
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- at grade — on the same level
- at large — You use at large to indicate that you are talking in a general way about most of the people mentioned.
- atheling — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a prince of any of the royal dynasties
- atty gen — Attorney General
- augments — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment.
- augurate — The position or office of an augur.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- baguette — A baguette is a type of long, thin, white bread which is traditionally made in France.
- bangster — a ruffian; thug
- bantengs — Plural form of banteng.
- 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
- 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)
- beathing — Present participle of beath.
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- belt bag — a bag that can be attached to a belt
- berating — to scold; rebuke: He berated them in public.
- bergamot — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
- berthage — a place for mooring boats
- bethpage — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- big beat — an eclectic type of dance music in which heavy beats and samples are layered over the songs or instrumental tracks of other performers or bands
- bijugate — (of compound leaves) having two pairs of leaflets
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- bogarted — to take an unfair share of (something); keep for oneself instead of sharing: Are you gonna bogart that joint all night?
- bretagne — Brittany2
- cabotage — coastal navigation or shipping, esp within the borders of one country
- carthage — an ancient city state, on the N African coast near present-day Tunis. Founded about 800 bc by Phoenician traders, it grew into an empire dominating N Africa and the Mediterranean. Destroyed and then rebuilt by Rome, it was finally razed by the Arabs in 697 ad
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- catering — Catering is the activity of providing food and drink for a large number of people, for example at weddings and parties.
- cattegat — Kattegat
- changeth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'change'.
- changteh — Changde
- chantage — the use of threats to extort money; blackmail
- chargeth — Archaic third-person singular form of charge.
- cheating — an instance of rule-breaking
- chigetai — a variety of the Asiatic wild ass, Equus hemionus, of Mongolia
- citrange — a hybrid orange
- cleating — a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support: He nailed cleats into the sides of the bookcase to keep the supports from slipping.
- coagment — (obsolete) To join together.
- cogitate — If you are cogitating, you are thinking deeply about something.
- cognates — Plural form of cognate.