8-letter words containing t, a, g
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garroter — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garrotes — Plural form of garrote.
- garrotte — to execute by the garrote.
- gartered — Also called, British, sock suspender, suspender. an article of clothing for holding up a stocking or sock, usually an elastic band around the leg or an elastic strap hanging from a girdle or other undergarment.
- gas lift — Gas lift is a method in which gas is injected into the production tubing (= tubes through which hydrocarbons flow to the surface) to allow liquids to enter the wellbore at a higher flow rate.
- gas tank — a tank containing the gasoline supply in a car, truck, or other gasoline-engine vehicle.
- gas tube — an electron tube the envelope of which contains a highly rarefied gas.
- gaslight — light produced by the combustion of illuminating gas.
- gasteral — Of or pertaining to the stomach.
- gastero- — gastro-
- gastfull — dismal; dreary
- gasthaus — a German inn or tavern.
- gastight — not penetrable by a gas.
- gastness — terror or fright.
- gastonia — a city in S North Carolina, W of Charlotte.
- gastraea — a primeval double-walled sac-like form whose existence was hypothesized by Ernst Haeckel, who proposed that all animals were descended from it
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gastrula — a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.
- gate leg — a leg attached to a hinged frame that can be swung out to support a drop leaf.
- gatefold — foldout (def 1).
- gatepost — the vertical post on which a gate is suspended by hinges, or the post against which the gate is closed.
- gateways — Plural form of gateway.
- gathered — Simple past tense and past participle of gather.
- gatherer — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- gatineau — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Hull.
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- gaudiest — Superlative form of gaudy.
- gaullist — a supporter of the political principles of Charles Charles de Gaulle.
- gaultier — Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). born 1952, French fashion designer
- gauntest — Superlative form of gaunt.
- gauntlet — a former punishment, chiefly military, in which the offender was made to run between two rows of men who struck at him with switches or weapons as he passed.
- gauziest — Superlative form of gauzy.
- gavotted — Simple past tense and past participle of gavotte.
- gavottes — Plural form of gavotte.
- gawkiest — Superlative form of gawky.
- gayomart — the first Aryan and the sixth creation of Ahura Mazda.
- gazement — a stare; look; view
- gazetted — a newspaper (now used chiefly in the names of newspapers): The Phoenix Gazette.
- gazettes — Plural form of gazette.
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- gelatine — a nearly transparent, faintly yellow, odorless, and almost tasteless glutinous substance obtained by boiling in water the ligaments, bones, skin, etc., of animals, and forming the basis of jellies, glues, and the like.
- gelatins — Plural form of gelatin.
- gelation — the process of gelling.
- gematria — a cabbalistic system of interpretation of the Scriptures by substituting for a particular word another word whose letters give the same numerical sum.
- geminate — Also, geminated. combined or arranged in pairs; twin; coupled.
- gemmated — Having buds.
- generant — something that generates
- generate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- genitals — Synonym of genitalia.