8-letter words containing s, n, a, g
- assaying — to examine or analyze: to assay a situation; to assay an event.
- assignat — the paper money issued by the Constituent Assembly in 1789, backed by the confiscated land of the Church and the émigrés
- assigned — Simple past tense and past participle of assign.
- assignee — a person to whom some right, interest, or property is transferred
- assigner — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- assignor — a person who transfers or assigns property
- assuming — You use assuming or assuming that when you are considering a possible situation or event, so that you can think about the consequences.
- assuring — to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to: She assured us that everything would turn out all right.
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- asynergy — defective coordination between parts, as muscles or limbs, that normally act in unison.
- augments — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment.
- augustan — characteristic of, denoting, or relating to the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar (63 bc–14 ad), his period, or the poets, notably Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, writing during his reign
- avengers — to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult.
- backings — Plural form of backing.
- bailings — Plural form of bailing.
- bandages — Plural form of bandage.
- bangster — a ruffian; thug
- bantengs — Plural form of banteng.
- bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
- bargains — Plural form of bargain.
- barkings — Plural form of barking.
- barrings — Plural form of barring.
- bashings — Plural form of bashing.
- bastogne — a town in SE Belgium: of strategic importance to Allied defences during the Battle of the Bulge; besieged by the Germans during the winter of 1944–45. Pop: 14 070 (2004 est)
- batangas — a port in the Philippines, in SW Luzon. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
- beadings — Plural form of beading.
- beanbags — Plural form of beanbag.
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- being as — You can use being as to introduce a reason for what you are saying.
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- caginess — cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.
- callings — Plural form of calling.
- carlings — Plural form of carling.
- carvings — Plural form of carving.
- castagno — Andrea del [ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), (Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla) c1423–57, Florentine painter.
- castings — Plural form of casting.
- castling — the act of moving the king two squares laterally on the first rank and placing the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side or the queen's side
- chagrins — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chagrin.
- changers — Plural form of changer.
- changsha — a port in SE China, capital of Hunan province, on the Xiang River. Pop: 2 051 000 (2005 est)
- chasings — a design chased on metal.
- chasting — Present participle of chast.