8-letter words containing g, a, e, t
- cottager — a person who lives in a cottage
- cottages — Plural form of cottage.
- cottagey — of or resembling a cottage
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- dagestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- debating — the activity of taking part in debates
- debitage — lithic debris and discards found at the sites where stone tools and weapons were made.
- decating — a finishing process for making fabric more lustrous, for improving the tactile quality of the nap, and for setting the material to reduce shrinkage.
- delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
- deligate — (surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
- denegate — (obsolete, transitive) To deny.
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- derogate — to cause to seem inferior or be in disrepute; detract
- detangle — to remove tangles from (hair)
- diagetic — Misspelling of diegetic.
- digerati — People with expertise or professional involvement in information technology.
- digitate — Zoology. having digits or digitlike processes.
- divagate — to wander; stray.
- dragnets — Plural form of dragnet.
- dragonet — any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- dragster — an automobile designed and built specifically for drag racing, especially on a ¼-mi. (402-meter) or ⅛-mi. (201-meter) drag strip.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- earthing — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- eastings — Plural form of easting.
- eggcrate — of or resembling a horizontal construction divided by vertical partitions into cell-like areas, used especially for directing downward rays of overhead light: eggcrate ceiling fixtures.
- eggplant — a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
- egyptian — person from Egypt
- elongate — Make (something) longer, especially unusually so in relation to its width.
- emigrant — A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- emigrate — Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- enacting — Present participle of enact.
- enargite — a sulphide of copper and arsenic
- engrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engraft.
- entangle — Cause to become twisted together with or caught in.
- equating — Present participle of equate.
- ergastic — consisting of the non-living by-products of protoplasmic activity
- ergative — Relating to or denoting a case of nouns (in some languages, e.g., Basque and Eskimo) that identifies the subject of a transitive verb and is different from the case that identifies the subject of an intransitive verb.
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- escargot — A snail, especially as an item on a menu.
- estragon — Tarragon.
- estrange — Cause (someone) to be no longer close or affectionate to someone; alienate.
- etailing — Etailing is the business of selling products on the Internet.
- ethogram — a description of an animal's behaviour
- étranger — a foreigner
- evulgate — to make public; to divulge
- exacting — Making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources.
- exalting — Present participle of exalt.
- exgratia — (chiefly, India) Alternative form of ex gratia.