8-letter words containing g
- arranged — If you say how things are arranged, you are talking about their position in relation to each other or to something else.
- arranger — An arranger is a musician who arranges music by other composers, either for particular instruments or voices, or for a particular performance.
- arranges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arrange.
- arraying — Present participle of array.
- arriving — to come to a certain point in the course of travel; reach one's destination: He finally arrived in Rome.
- arrogant — Someone who is arrogant behaves in a proud, unpleasant way towards other people because they believe that they are more important than others.
- arrogate — If someone arrogates to themselves something such as a responsibility or privilege, they claim or take it even though they have no right to do so.
- arrowing — Present participle of arrow.
- art song — a song written by a trained composer to convey a specific artistic idea, as in projecting the mood and meaning of a poetic text
- asa gray — Asa [ey-suh] /ˈeɪ sə/ (Show IPA), 1810–88, U.S. botanist.
- ash gray — pale gray resembling the color of ashes.
- ashgabat — capital of Turkmenistan, in the SC part, near the Iranian border: pop. 411,000
- ashikaga — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns 1338–1573.
- asperger — a developmental disorder characterized by severely impaired social skills, repetitive behaviors, and often, a narrow set of interests, but not involving delayed development of linguistic and cognitive abilities: now considered one of the autism spectrum disorders.
- asperges — a short rite preceding Mass, in which the celebrant sprinkles those present with holy water to the accompaniment of the chant Asperges me, Domine
- aspiring — If you use aspiring to describe someone who is starting a particular career, you mean that they are trying to become successful in it.
- assaying — to examine or analyze: to assay a situation; to assay an event.
- assegais — Plural form of assegai.
- 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
- assuaged — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- assuager — Someone who or something which assuages.
- assuages — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- 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.
- astigmia — Also called astigmia [uh-stig-mee-uh] /əˈstɪg mi ə/ (Show IPA). Ophthalmology. a refractive error of the eye in which parallel rays of light from an external source do not converge on a single focal point on the retina.
- astragal — a small convex moulding, usually with a semicircular cross section
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- asynergy — defective coordination between parts, as muscles or limbs, that normally act in unison.
- at grade — on the same level
- at large — You use at large to indicate that you are talking in a general way about most of the people mentioned.
- at night — If it is a particular time at night, it is during the time when it is dark and is before midnight.
- at sight — as soon as seen
- atheling — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a prince of any of the royal dynasties
- atmology — the study of or the scientific discipline of aqueous vapour
- ats&gwtu — All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers Trade Union
- attagirl — an expression of approval
- attiring — Present participle of attire.
- attuning — Present participle of attune.
- atty gen — Attorney General
- auditing — the act of inspecting, correcting, and certifying (accounts, etc)
- augments — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment.
- augsburg — a city in S Germany, in Bavaria: founded by the Romans in 14 bc; site of the diet that produced the Peace of Augsburg (1555), which ended the struggles between Lutherans and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire and established the principle that each ruler should determine the form of worship in his lands. Pop: 259 217 (2003 est)
- augurate — The position or office of an augur.
- augurers — Plural form of augurer.
- auguries — Plural form of augury.
- auguring — an excessively talkative person.