8-letter words containing g, u, a, i
- oragious — stormy or tempestuous
- origanum — An aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
- pagurian — a hermit crab, especially of the genus Pagurus.
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- patagium — a wing membrane, as of a bat.
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- plaguing — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- pupilage — the state or period of being a pupil; tutelage.
- qingyuan — former name of Baoding.
- quacking — Present participle of quack.
- quadding — Also called quadrat. a piece of type metal of less height than the lettered types, serving to cause a blank in printed matter, used for spacing.
- quadriga — a two-wheeled chariot drawn by four horses harnessed abreast.
- quaffing — to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
- quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- quagmiry — relating to a quagmire
- quailing — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- qualming — the state of having a qualm
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
- rail gun — a weapon consisting of a pair of parallel conductive rails, using a magnetic field and electric current to launch projectiles at very high velocity.
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- rigaudon — rigadoon.
- rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
- sanguify — to generate or turn into blood
- sanguine — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- sastrugi — Usually, sastrugi. ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- shangqiu — a city in E Henan province, in E China.
- singular — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- squirage — squires considered as a whole group
- subimago — the first winged stage of the mayfly, with dull opaque wings, known to anglers as a dun, before it metamorphoses into the shiny gauzy imago or spinner
- sugaring — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- taichung — a city in and the provincial capital of Taiwan, in the W part.
- taunting — to reproach in a sarcastic, insulting, or jeering manner; mock.
- ugaritic — of or relating to Ugarit, its people, or their language.
- umangite — a copper selenide mineral, Cu3Se2, having a dark blue or red colour and metallic lustre
- umpirage — the office or authority of an umpire.
- unaching — not aching or painful
- unageing — not ageing or seeming not to age
- uncaring — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- undaring — lacking a sense of adventure
- unfading — not liable to fade in colour
- ungainly — not graceful; awkward; unwieldy; clumsy: an ungainly child; an ungainly prose style.
- ungazing — not gazing
- ungenial — unfriendly
- unialgal — of, relating to, or derived from a single algal cell.
- unsating — not sating
- untaking — the act of a person or thing that takes.
- unwaning — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.