8-letter words containing g
- agricola — Gnaeus Julius (ˈniːəs ˈdʒuːlɪəs) 40–93 ad, Roman general; governor of Britain who advanced Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth
- agrimony — any of various N temperate rosaceous plants of the genus Agrimonia, which have compound leaves, long spikes of small yellow flowers, and bristly burlike fruits
- agrinion — a city in W Greece.
- agrology — the scientific study of soils and their potential productivity
- agronomy — the science of cultivation of land, soil management, and crop production
- agrypnia — the inability to sleep
- aguacate — an avocado
- aguelike — as if suffering from fever
- agueweed — a North American gentianaceous plant, Gentiana quinquefolia, that has clusters of pale blue-violet or white flowers
- aguishly — in an aguish manner
- aigrette — a long plume worn on hats or as a headdress, esp one of long egret feathers
- aiguille — a rock mass or mountain peak shaped like a needle
- air plug — a plug making an airtight seal to a vent.
- air rage — Air rage is aggressive or violent behaviour by airline passengers.
- air sign — one of a group of three signs of the zodiac, Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius
- airgraph — a system devised in the Second World War in which letters were photographed in miniature and sent by airmail
- airlight — light scattered or diffused in the air by dust, haze, etc., especially as it limits the visibility of distant, dark objects by causing them to blend with the background sky.
- airtight — If a container is airtight, its lid fits so tightly that no air can get in or out.
- al-gazel — Ghazzali.
- ala dagh — a mountain range in S Turkey: highest peak, about 11,000 feet (3350 meters).
- alarming — Something that is alarming makes you feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- albright — Horace Marden [mahrd-n] /ˈmɑrd n/ (Show IPA), 1890–1987, U.S. conservationist and cofounder of the National Park Service.
- aldridge — Ira Frederick ("the African Roscius") 1804?–67, U.S. actor, primarily in Europe.
- alegrete — a city in SW Brazil.
- alerting — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
- algerian — Algerian means belonging or relating to Algeria, or its people or culture.
- algerine — of or relating to Algeria or its inhabitants
- algerita — agarita.
- algernon — a masculine name: dim. Algie, Algy
- algicide — any substance that kills algae
- algidity — (medicine) The state of being algid.
- alginate — a salt or ester of alginic acid
- algol 58 — (language) An early version of ALGOL 60, originally known as "IAL".
- algol 60 — (language) ALGOrithmic Language 1960. A portable language for scientific computations. ALGOL 60 was small and elegant. It was block-structured, nested, recursive and free form. It was also the first language to be described in BNF. There were three lexical representations: hardware, reference, and publication. The only structured data types were arrays, but they were permitted to have lower bounds and could be dynamic. It also had conditional expressions; it introduced :=; if-then-else; very general "for" loops; switch declaration (an array of statement labels generalising Fortran's computed goto). Parameters were call-by-name and call-by-value. It had static local "own" variables. It lacked user-defined types, character manipulation and standard I/O. See also EULER, ALGOL 58, ALGOL 68, Foogol.
- algol 68 — (language) An extensive revision of ALGOL 60 by Adriaan van Wijngaarden et al. ALGOL 68 was discussed from 1963 by Working Group 2.1 of IFIP. Its definition was accepted in December 1968. ALGOL 68 was the first, and still one of very few, programming languages for which a complete formal specification was created before its implementation. However, this specification was hard to understand due to its formality, the fact that it used an unfamiliar metasyntax notation (not BNF) and its unconventional terminology. One of the singular features of ALGOL 68 was its orthogonal design, making for freedom from arbitrary rules (such as restrictions in other languages that arrays could only be used as parameters but not as results). It also allowed user defined data types, then an unheard-of feature. It featured structural equivalence; automatic type conversion ("coercion") including dereferencing; flexible arrays; generalised loops (for-from-by-to-while-do-od), if-then-else-elif-fi, an integer case statement with an 'out' clause (case-in-out-esac); skip and goto statements; blocks; procedures; user-defined operators; procedure parameters; concurrent execution (par-begin-end); semaphores; generators "heap" and "loc" for dynamic allocation. It had no abstract data types or separate compilation.
- algology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of algae
- algonkin — Algonquin
- algorism — the Arabic or decimal system of counting
- algraphy — (formerly) an offset process employing an aluminum plate instead of a stone.
- alguacil — a Spanish law officer similar to a sheriff or chief constable
- alguazil — An officer of the law in Spain or Latin America. (from 16th c.).
- aliasing — the error in a vision or sound signal arising from limitations in the system that generates or processes the signal
- alienage — the legal status of an alien
- alighted — Simple past tense and past participle of alight.
- aligning — to arrange in a straight line; adjust according to a line.
- all gone — finished, used up
- allaying — to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet.
- alledged — Simple past tense and past participle of alledge.
- alledges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alledge.
- allegate — To make an allegation.