8-letter words containing s, e, r, g, a
- sardegna — a large island in the Mediterranean, W of Italy: with small nearby islands it comprises a department of Italy. 9301 sq. mi. (24,090 sq. km).
- sargeson — Frank. 1903–82, New Zealand short-story writer and novelist. His work includes the short-story collection That Summer and Other Stories (1946) and the novel I Saw in my Dream (1949)
- savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- savegard — safe conduct, protection
- scaliger — Joseph Justus [juhs-tuh s] /ˈdʒʌs təs/ (Show IPA), 1540–1609, French scholar and critic.
- scarmoge — a skirmish or minor conflict
- scavager — a person whose responsibility is to ensure the streets are kept clean
- schlager — a type of European popular music focusing on love and feelings
- scragged — a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- screwage — /skroo'*j/ Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
- sea-girt — surrounded by the sea.
- seagrass — Seagrass is a plant that grows in shallow salt water and is used especially to make mats and floor coverings.
- segreant — (of a griffin) rampant.
- selangor — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 3160 sq. mi. (8184 sq. km). Capital: Shah Alam.
- semarang — a seaport on N Java, in S Indonesia.
- seraglio — the part of a Muslim house or palace in which the wives and concubines are secluded; harem.
- sergeant — Ancient Eboracum. a city in North Yorkshire, in NE England, on the Ouse: the capital of Roman Britain; cathedral.
- sewerage — the removal of waste water and refuse by means of sewers.
- shagreen — an untanned leather with a granular surface, prepared from the hide of a horse, shark, seal, etc.
- shearing — Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
- spangler — a person who spangles
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- sprangle — to struggle or sprawl with limbs spread out wide
- squirage — squires considered as a whole group
- staggers — to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
- staggery — tending to stagger
- stargaze — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- steerage — a part or division of a ship, formerly the part containing the steering apparatus.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- sternage — the stern or rear of a ship
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- straggle — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- stravage — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- strewage — strewn or discarded items
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- subgrade — the prepared earth surface on which a pavement or the ballast of a railroad track is placed or upon which the foundation of a structure is built.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- sun gear — (in an epicyclic train) the central gear around which the planet gears revolve.
- tear gas — Tear gas is a gas that causes your eyes to sting and fill with tears so that you cannot see. It is sometimes used by the police or army to control crowds.
- tear-gas — to subject to tear gas.
- upstager — someone who upstages
- vagaries — an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
- 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.
- 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.