8-letter words containing g
- angeling — one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels).
- angerful — Full of anger, expressing anger.
- angering — a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
- angerona — the ancient Roman goddess of anguish.
- angiitis — A condition where blood or lymph vessels are inflamed.
- anginose — (dated) Relating to angina; anginous.
- anginous — of, noting, or pertaining to angina, especially angina pectoris.
- angiomas — Plural form of angioma.
- angklung — an Asian musical instrument made from bamboo
- anglaise — an old English country-dance.
- angledug — an earthworm
- anglepod — an American wild flowering plant with angular pods, belonging to the milkweed family
- anglesey — an island and county of N Wales, formerly part of Gwynedd (1974–96), separated from the mainland by the Menai Strait. Administrative centre: Llangefni. Pop: 59 500 (2003 est). Area: 720 sq km (278 sq miles)
- angleton — a town in S Texas.
- anglican — Anglican means belonging or relating to the Church of England, or to the churches related to it.
- angolese — a member of any of the tribes residing in Angola.
- angrboda — a giantess who was the mother of Loki's children, Fenrir and Hel, and also of the Midgard serpent.
- angriest — feeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, or about): to be angry at the dean; to be angry about the snub.
- angstful — Full of angst; fearful; apprehensive.
- angstrom — a unit of length equal to 10–10 metre, used principally to express the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiations. It is equivalent to 0.1 nanometre
- anguilla — an island in the Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands: part of the British associated state of St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla from 1967 until 1980, when it reverted to the status of a British dependency and is now a UK Overseas Territory. Pop: 15 754 (2013 est). Area: 90 sq km (35 sq miles)
- anguiped — having snakes for feet or legs
- angulate — having angles or an angular shape
- angulose — having angles
- angulous — angular or having angles
- angus og — the god of love and beauty
- anhingas — Plural form of anhinga.
- anhungry — (obsolete, rare) Hungry.
- annexing — Present participle of annex.
- annigoni — Pietro (ˈpjɛːtro). 1910–88, Italian painter; noted esp for his portraits of President Kennedy (1961) and Queen Elizabeth II (1955 and 1970)
- annoying — Someone or something that is annoying makes you feel fairly angry and impatient.
- anregend — Stimulating, inspiring.
- antagony — (obsolete) contest; opposition; antagonism.
- antalgic — relieving or reducing pain
- antidrug — (of a person, group or initiative) discouraging illegal drug use
- antigang — opposed to the formation, growth and activities of gangs
- antigens — Immunology. any substance that can stimulate the production of antibodies and combine specifically with them.
- antigone — daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who was condemned to death for cremating the body of her brother Polynices in defiance of an edict of her uncle, King Creon of Thebes
- antigram — One of a pair of anagrams with opposite meanings.
- antigrav — (science fiction) antigravity, or a device that counters gravity.
- antiguan — of or relating to Antigua or its inhabitants
- antiking — a person who declares himself king in opposition to an established monarch
- antilogy — a contradiction in terms
- antismog — acting to reduce smog, aimed at preventing smog
- anything — You use anything in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nothing is present or that an action or event does not or cannot happen.
- apagogic — relating to apagoge
- apiology — the scientific study of bees
- apogamic — Of or relating to apogamy.
- apograph — a perfect copy or transcript
- apologal — resembling or related to an apologue