8-letter words containing eg
- schlegel — August Wilhelm von [ou-goo st vil-helm fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1767–1845, German poet, critic, and translator.
- sea legs — the ability to maintain one's balance on board ship, esp in rough weather
- seal leg — A seal leg is an open pipe which contains particles that gas cannot leak through.
- segreant — (of a griffin) rampant.
- segueing — to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction).
- sheerleg — one of the spars of a sheerlegs
- siegbahn — Karl Manne Georg [kahrl mahn-nuh yey-awr-yuh] /kɑrl ˈmɑn nə ˈyeɪ ɔr yə/ (Show IPA), 1886–1978, Swedish physicist: Nobel prize 1924.
- solfeggi — a vocal exercise in which the sol-fa syllables are used.
- somegate — in some manner
- squeegee — an implement edged with rubber or the like, for removing water from windows after washing, sweeping water from wet decks, etc.
- squegger — an oscillator that produces an irregular current which builds up, is suppressed when it reaches a certain amplitude, and later builds up again
- stegodon — any extinct elephantlike mammal of the genus Stegodon, from the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, usually considered to be directly ancestral to the modern elephant.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- superego — the part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behavior.
- taleggio — a square Italian soft cheese with a salt-covered rind
- tegument — a covering or vestment; integument.
- telegony — a former belief that a sire can influence the characteristics of the progeny of the female parent and subsequent mates.
- telegram — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
- tent peg — a peg used to hold down rope attached to a tent into the ground
- tuskegee — a city in E Alabama: location of Tuskegee Institute.
- unbegged — not obtained by begging; not begged for
- urostege — an underside plate on a serpent's tail
- v region — variable region.
- veganism — a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet.
- vegelate — low-quality chocolate that contains a certain proportion of vegetable fats not derived from the cocoa bean
- vegemite — a vegetable extract used as a spread, flavouring, etc
- vegetant — causing growth
- vegetate — to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
- vegetist — a vegetable cultivator or enthusiast
- vegetive — a vegetable
- vinegary — of the nature of or resembling vinegar; sour; acid: a vinegary taste.
- 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.
- vonnegut — Kurt, Jr. 1922–2007, U.S. novelist.
- vychegda — a river in N European Russia, flowing W to the Northern Dvina River. 702 miles (1130 km) long.
- waukegan — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan, N of Chicago.
- wayleggo — away here! let go!; a shepherd's call to a dog on completion of a task
- wegotism — (colloquial, dated) Excessive use of the pronoun 'we'.
- weregeld — Alternative spelling of wergeld.
- weregild — (in Anglo-Saxon England and other Germanic countries)
- westwego — a town in SE Louisiana.
- winnipeg — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
- wobegone — woebegone.
- ziegfeld — Florenz [flawr-uh nz,, flor-] /ˈflɔr ənz,, ˈflɒr-/ (Show IPA), 1867–1932, U.S. theatrical producer.