8-letter words containing o, u, a, g
- on guard — prepared, at the ready
- oo gauge — a model railroad gauge of 3/4 inch (19 mm).
- oogamous — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.
- oragious — stormy or tempestuous
- origanum — An aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- outargue — to outdo or defeat in arguing: That man could outargue the devil himself.
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- outguard — a guard placed furthest away from the main contingent of an army
- outlaugh — (transitive) To ridicule or laugh someone out of a purpose, principle, etc.; laugh down; discourage or put out of countenance by laughing.
- outraged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrage.
- outrages — Plural form of outrage.
- outrange — to have a longer or greater range than.
- page out — (storage, architecture) What a paging system does when it copies part of a task's working memory from RAM to swap space on disk.
- plumbago — graphite.
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- poundage — confinement within an enclosure or within certain limits.
- pugachov — Yemelyan Ivanovich. 1726–75, Russian Cossack rebel, leader of a major revolt against the government of Catherine II: executed
- quandong — an Australian tree, Fusanus acuminatus, bearing a fruit with an edible, nutlike seed.
- quantong — quandong.
- rigaudon — rigadoon.
- roughage — rough or coarse material.
- sour gas — Sour gas is natural gas with a high sulfur content.
- spousage — marriage
- subgoals — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- 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
- toad bug — any of several small broad aquatic insect-eating hemipterous insects of the family Gelastocoridae, having toadlike characteristics.
- tokugawa — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns, 1603–1867.
- tombaugh — Clyde William, 1906–97, U.S. astronomer: discovered Pluto 1930.
- tutorage — the office, authority, or care of a tutor.
- vargueno — a fall-front desk of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having the form of a chest upon a small table.
- voyageur — (in Canada) a person who is an expert woodsman, boatman, and guide in remote regions, especially one employed by fur companies to transport supplies to and from their distant stations.
- wagonful — a quantity of objects or people that will fill a wagon
- yangzhou — a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China.
- yugoslav — a native or inhabitant of the former country of Yugoslavia.