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8-letter words containing l, a, g, e

  • cerclage — the treatment of an incompetent cervix by means of a suture in early pregnancy to prevent miscarriage
  • clangers — Plural form of clanger.
  • claviger — a key- or club-bearer
  • cleaning — the act of removing dirt or something undesirable
  • clearing — A clearing is a small area in a forest where there are no trees or bushes.
  • 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.
  • cleavage — A woman's cleavage is the space between her breasts, especially the top part which you see if she is wearing a dress with a low neck.
  • cleaving — Present participle of cleave.
  • cloudage — a mass of clouds
  • cogenial — Alternative spelling of congenial.
  • 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.
  • collagen — Collagen is a protein that is found in the bodies of people and animals. It is often used as an ingredient in cosmetics or is injected into the face in cosmetic surgery, in order to make the skin look younger.
  • collages — Plural form of collage.
  • collegia — Ecclesiastical. college (def 11).
  • congeals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congeal.
  • dahlgren — John Adelphus Bernard, 1809–70, U.S. naval officer and inventor.
  • 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
  • danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
  • 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.
  • decalage — the difference between the angles of incidence of the upper and lower wings of a biplane: A biplane has positive decalage if the angle of incidence of the upper wing is greater than that of the lower wing and negative decalage when the lower wing has the greater angle.
  • decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
  • decalogy — A set of ten works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as ten individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
  • deglazed — Simple past tense and past participle of deglaze.
  • dekalogy — a series of ten related works
  • delaying — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.
  • delegacy — an elected standing committee at some British universities
  • 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.
  • detangle — to remove tangles from (hair)
  • diallage — a green or brownish-black variety of the mineral augite in the form of layers of platelike crystals
  • dialogue — Dialogue is communication or discussion between people or groups of people such as governments or political parties.
  • diggable — capable of being dug
  • diplegia — paralysis of the identical part on both sides of the body.
  • disgavel — to free from the tenure of gavelkind: to disgavel an estate.
  • dog flea — any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
  • draggled — Simple past tense and past participle of draggle.
  • dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
  • e galaxy — a type of galaxy having the shape of a spheroid or ellipsoid, rather than a disk.
  • earplugs — Plural form of earplug.
  • eelgrass — a grasslike marine plant, Zostera marina, having ribbonlike leaves.
  • egg coal — anthracite in sizes ranging from 2.44 to 3.25 inches (8 to 8 cm), intermediate between broken coal and stove coal.
  • eggplant — a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
  • elapsing — Present participle of elapse.
  • elegance — The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style.
  • elegancy — Alternative form of elegance.
  • elongate — Make (something) longer, especially unusually so in relation to its width.
  • emailing — Present participle of email.
  • enabling — software enabling
  • enallage — (uncountable, rhetoric) Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
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