8-letter words containing r, a, g, e
- vicarage — the residence of a vicar.
- villager — an inhabitant of a village.
- vinegary — of the nature of or resembling vinegar; sour; acid: a vinegary taste.
- vintager — a person who helps in the harvest of grapes for winemaking.
- visegrad — a town in N Hungary, NW of Budapest on the Danube: site of summit in 1991 of the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
- 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.
- wafering — Present participle of wafer.
- wagering — Present participle of wager.
- waggoner — Alternative spelling of wagoner.
- wagoneer — One who drives a wagon.
- war game — a simulated military operation, carried out to test the validity of a war plan or operational concept: in its simplest form, two opposing teams of officers take part, and when necessary, military units of the required strength are employed.
- wargames — (recreation) (Not "War Games") A 1983 film about a schoolboy cracker using a wardialer to try to break into a games company's computer and accidentally connecting to a backdoor into "Whopper", a ficticious C3 computer at Norad (USAF). He then procedes to unwittingly initiate global thermonuclear warfare. Playing naughts and crosses finally teaches Whopper that the only way to win the game is never to play.
- waterage — the transportation of cargo by means of ships, or the charges for such transportation
- waterdog — any of several large salamanders, as a mudpuppy or hellbender.
- watering — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- waterlog — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- wavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- wearying — Causing tiredness; tiring.
- wharfage — the use of a wharf: to charge higher rates for wharfage.
- wigmaker — a person who makes or sells wigs.
- wordages — Plural form of wordage.
- wrangell — Mount, an active volcano in SE Alaska, in the Wrangell Mountains. 14,006 feet (4269 meters).
- wrangled — to argue or dispute, especially in a noisy or angry manner.
- wrangler — a cowboy, especially one in charge of saddle horses.
- wrangles — Plural form of wrangle.
- wrappage — The act of wrapping.
- wreaking — to inflict or execute (punishment, vengeance, etc.): They wreaked havoc on the enemy.
- wreckage — act of wrecking; state of being wrecked.
- yardages — Plural form of yardage.
- yearling — an animal in its second year.
- yearlong — lasting for a year.
- yearning — deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness: a widower's yearning for his wife.