8-letter words containing n, g, a, r
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- dognaper — to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- dragging — marked by or involving the wearing of clothing characteristically associated with the opposite sex; transvestite.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- dragnets — Plural form of dragnet.
- dragoman — (in the Near East) a professional interpreter.
- dragonet — any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- dragonné — shaped like a dragon
- dragoons — Plural form of dragoon.
- dragsman — a person who drives a carriage or drag
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- draining — Present participle of drain.
- dramming — Measurements. a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams). 1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- drangway — a narrow lane; passageway
- dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.
- drawling — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drearing — sorrow; grief
- drogoman — Alternative form of dragoman.
- dunaburg — German name of Daugavpils.
- dungaree — dungarees. work clothes, overalls, etc., of blue denim. blue jeans.
- dwarfing — Present participle of dwarf.
- earnings — money earned; wages; profits.
- earrings — Plural form of earring.
- 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.
- emigrant — A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- en garde — ready to defend oneself
- enargite — a sulphide of copper and arsenic
- encharge — (obsolete, transitive) To give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task.
- endanger — Put (someone or something) at risk or in danger.
- engrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engraft.
- engrails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engrail.
- engrasps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engrasp.
- engraved — Cut or carve (a text or design) on the surface of a hard object.
- engraver — A person who engraves.
- engraves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engrave.
- enlarged — Simple past tense and past participle of enlarge.
- enlargen — To enlarge.
- enlarger — An apparatus for enlarging or reducing negatives or positives.
- enlarges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enlarge.
- enraging — Present participle of enrage.
- enranged — Simple past tense and past participle of enrange.
- erlangen — a town in central Germany, in Bavaria: university (1743). Pop: 102 449 (2003 est)
- erlanger — Joseph. 1874–1965, US physiologist. He shared a Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1944) with Gasser for their work on the electrical signs of nervous activity
- estragon — Tarragon.
- estrange — Cause (someone) to be no longer close or affectionate to someone; alienate.