8-letter words containing m, a, g
- gambades — Plural form of gambade.
- gambeson — a quilted garment worn under mail.
- gambetta — Léon [ley-awn] /leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1838–82, French statesman.
- gamblers — Plural form of gambler.
- gambling — any matter or thing involving risk or hazardous uncertainty.
- gambogic — of or derived from gamboge
- gamboled — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- gambrels — Plural form of gambrel.
- gambroon — a type of twilled linen cloth, often used for lining clothes
- gambusia — any fish of the genus Gambusia, comprising small livebearers that feed on aquatic insect larvae and are used to control mosquitoes.
- game boy — a handheld games console, made by the company Nintendo, which was popular in the 1990s
- game law — a law enacted for the preservation of game, as by restricting the number and kinds of game that may be taken and by designating periods of the year when specified game may be taken.
- game pie — a savoury pie made from game or hunted animals
- gamecast — the broadcast of a team sport game.
- gamecock — a rooster of a fighting breed, or one bred and trained for fighting.
- gamefowl — A gamebird.
- gamelans — Plural form of gamelan.
- gamelike — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gameness — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gameplay — The tactical aspects of a computer game, such as its plot and the way it is played, as distinct from the graphics and sound effects.
- gamesman — a person who is skilled at manipulating events and circumstances to gain or maintain personal advantage, especially in business or politics.
- gamesome — playful; frolicsome.
- gamester — a gambler.
- gaminess — the taste or odor of game, especially when slightly tainted.
- gammoned — Simple past tense and past participle of gammon.
- gamodeme — an isolated breeding population
- gamyness — the quality of being gamy
- gangsman — the foreman of a gang of workers
- ganymeda — Hebe.
- ganymede — Also, Ganymedes [gan-uh-mee-deez] /ˌgæn əˈmi diz/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus and taken to Olympus, where he was made the cupbearer of the gods and became immortal.
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- garamond — a printing type designed in 1540 by Claude Garamond (c1480–1561), French type founder.
- garments — Plural form of garment.
- gas main — a large pipe for conducting and distributing gas to lesser pipes or ducts, especially such a pipe carrying and distributing household gas beneath the streets of a town or city.
- gas mask — a masklike device containing or attached to a component that filters the air inhaled by the wearer through charcoal and chemicals, for protecting the face and lungs against noxious gases and fumes, as in warfare or in certain industrial processes.
- gasiform — having the form of gas; gaseous.
- gaullism — a political movement in France led by Charles de Gaulle.
- gaumless — gormless.
- gavelman — a gavelkind tenant
- gayomart — the first Aryan and the sixth creation of Ahura Mazda.
- gazement — a stare; look; view
- gazumped — Simple past tense and past participle of gazump.
- gem jade — transparent jadeite of gem quality; a true jade.
- gematria — a cabbalistic system of interpretation of the Scriptures by substituting for a particular word another word whose letters give the same numerical sum.
- geminate — Also, geminated. combined or arranged in pairs; twin; coupled.
- geminian — a person born under the sign of Gemini, usually between May 21st and June 20th.
- gemmated — Having buds.
- gendarme — a police officer in any of several European countries, especially a French police officer.
- gene map — an arrangement of genes on a chromosome.
- genogram — a graphic representation of the personalities and interplay of generations within a family, used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior; a psychological family tree.