8-letter words containing n, g
- anguilla — an island in the Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands: part of the British associated state of St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla from 1967 until 1980, when it reverted to the status of a British dependency and is now a UK Overseas Territory. Pop: 15 754 (2013 est). Area: 90 sq km (35 sq miles)
- anguiped — having snakes for feet or legs
- angulate — having angles or an angular shape
- angulose — having angles
- angulous — angular or having angles
- angus og — the god of love and beauty
- anhingas — Plural form of anhinga.
- anhungry — (obsolete, rare) Hungry.
- annexing — Present participle of annex.
- annigoni — Pietro (ˈpjɛːtro). 1910–88, Italian painter; noted esp for his portraits of President Kennedy (1961) and Queen Elizabeth II (1955 and 1970)
- annoying — Someone or something that is annoying makes you feel fairly angry and impatient.
- anregend — Stimulating, inspiring.
- antagony — (obsolete) contest; opposition; antagonism.
- antalgic — relieving or reducing pain
- antidrug — (of a person, group or initiative) discouraging illegal drug use
- antigang — opposed to the formation, growth and activities of gangs
- antigens — Immunology. any substance that can stimulate the production of antibodies and combine specifically with them.
- antigone — daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who was condemned to death for cremating the body of her brother Polynices in defiance of an edict of her uncle, King Creon of Thebes
- antigram — One of a pair of anagrams with opposite meanings.
- antigrav — (science fiction) antigravity, or a device that counters gravity.
- antiguan — of or relating to Antigua or its inhabitants
- antiking — a person who declares himself king in opposition to an established monarch
- antilogy — a contradiction in terms
- antismog — acting to reduce smog, aimed at preventing smog
- anything — You use anything in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nothing is present or that an action or event does not or cannot happen.
- appaling — Misspelling of appalling.
- appanage — land or other provision granted by a king for the support of a member of the royal family, esp a younger son
- appeling — Present participle of appel.
- appenage — Alternative form of appanage.
- applying — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- apposing — Present participle of appose.
- aqualung — breathing apparatus used by divers, etc, consisting of a mouthpiece attached to air cylinders strapped to the back
- araponga — any of four species of South American birds of the genus Procnias, each having a bell-like call
- arcading — An arrangement of arcades.
- argemone — any of various plants of the genus Argemone of the family Papaveraceae, which are native to the Americas, have large white or yellow flowers and are covered in prickles
- argental — relating to or containing silver
- argentic — of or containing silver in the divalent or trivalent state
- argentum — silver. Symbol: Ag.
- arginase — an enzyme which hydrolyses arginine into ornithine and urea
- arginine — an essential amino acid of plant and animal proteins, necessary for nutrition and for the production of excretory urea
- argonaut — one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece
- arguendo — (legal) for the sake of argument.
- argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
- arisings — Waste products or byproducts of an industrial process.
- armagnac — Armagnac is a type of brandy made in south-west France.
- armgaunt — (of limbs) slender
- arnsberg — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany.
- arousing — causing sexual excitement
- arraigns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arraign.
- arranged — If you say how things are arranged, you are talking about their position in relation to each other or to something else.