8-letter words containing g, e, d
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- breeding — If someone says that a person has breeding, they mean that they think the person is from a good social background and has good manners.
- bridgend — a county borough in S Wales, created in 1996 from S Mid Glamorgan. Administrative centre: Bridgend. Pop: 129 900 (2003 est). Area: 264 sq km (102 sq miles)
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- budgeree — excellent; fine
- budgerow — a large slow-moving barge formerly used on the Ganges
- budgeted — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
- budgeter — a person who budgets
- bug-eyed — A bug-eyed person or animal has eyes that stick out.
- buggered — If someone says that they will be buggered if they will do something, they mean that they do not want to do it and they will definitely not do it.
- burbidge — (Eleanor) Margaret (Peachey) [pee-chee] /ˈpi tʃi/ (Show IPA), born 1919, U.S. astronomer, born in England.
- cabbaged — Chiefly British. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cloudage — a mass of clouds
- codesign — to design jointly
- cognized — Simple past tense and past participle of cognize.
- collaged — a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
- colledge — Obsolete form of college.
- cologned — Perfumed with cologne.
- coolidge — (John) Calvin. 1872–1933, 30th president of the US (1923–29)
- cosigned — Simple past tense and past participle of cosign.
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- cudgeled — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- cudgeler — One who beats with a cudgel.
- cudgerie — a large tropical rutaceous tree, Flindersia schottina, having light-coloured wood
- d region — the lowest region of the ionosphere, extending from a height of about 60 kilometres to about 90 kilometres: contains a low concentration of free electrons and reflects low-frequency radio waves
- dagenham — part of the Greater London borough of Barking and Dagenham: engineering and chemicals
- 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)
- daggered — a short, swordlike weapon with a pointed blade and a handle, used for stabbing.
- dago red — a cheap red wine, especially a jug wine of Italian origin.
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- daguerre — Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)
- dahlgren — John Adelphus Bernard, 1809–70, U.S. naval officer and inventor.
- damagers — Plural form of damager.
- danegeld — the tax first levied in the late 9th century in Anglo-Saxon England to provide protection money for or to finance forces to oppose Viking invaders
- dangered — Simple past tense and past participle of danger.
- danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- dark age — If you refer to a period in the history of a society as a dark age, you think that it is characterized by a lack of knowledge and progress.
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- de groot — Huig [hœikh] /hœɪx/ (Show IPA), Hugo Grotius.
- de-icing — the activity of removing ice or preventing its formation
- dead leg — temporary loss of sensation in the leg, caused by a blow to a muscle
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- debagged — to depants.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- debating — the activity of taking part in debates
- debitage — lithic debris and discards found at the sites where stone tools and weapons were made.
- debiting — the recording or an entry of debt in an account.
- deboning — to remove the bones from (meat, fish, or fowl); bone: Before cooking, the chicken breasts should be deboned with a small, sharp knife.