8-letter words containing ga
- gamesome — playful; frolicsome.
- gamester — a gambler.
- gaminess — the taste or odor of game, especially when slightly tainted.
- gammoned — Simple past tense and past participle of gammon.
- gamodeme — an isolated breeding population
- gamyness — the quality of being gamy
- ganapati — (Hinduism) Lord of the demigods attending on Shiva. An epithet of Ganesha.
- gandhara — an ancient region in what is now NW Pakistan.
- gandhian — of or relating to Mohandas Gandhi or to Gandhiism.
- gang saw — a saw having several parallel blades for making simultaneous cuts.
- gang way — if someone calls out gang way! they are asking people to make way or clear a path
- gangbang — a series of acts of often forcible sexual intercourse engaged in by several persons successively with one passive partner.
- gangetic — a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Bay of Bengal: sacred to Hindus. 1550 miles (2495 km) long.
- gangland — the world of organized crime; criminal underworld.
- ganglial — Of or pertaining to a ganglion.
- ganglier — Comparative form of gangly.
- gangling — to move awkwardly or ungracefully: A tall, stiff-jointed man gangled past.
- ganglio- — ganglion
- ganglion — Anatomy. a mass of nerve tissue existing outside the central nervous system. any of certain masses of gray matter in the brain, as the basal ganglia.
- ganglord — The leader of a gang, especially a criminal organization.
- gangnail — a particular arrangement of nails on a metal plate, used as a connecting piece in strong timber joints
- gangrene — necrosis or death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition and putrefaction.
- gangsman — the foreman of a gang of workers
- gangstas — Plural form of gangsta.
- gangster — a member of a gang of criminals, especially a racketeer.
- gangways — Plural form of gangway.
- ganister — a highly refractory, siliceous rock used to line furnaces.
- gannetry — a gannet breeding-ground
- gantlets — Plural form of gantlet.
- gantline — a rope rove through a single block hung from a mast, funnel, etc., as a means of hoisting workers, tools, flags, or the like.
- gantlope — gauntlet2 .
- gantries — Plural form of gantry.
- ganymeda — Hebe.
- ganymede — Also, Ganymedes [gan-uh-mee-deez] /ˌgæn əˈmi diz/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus and taken to Olympus, where he was made the cupbearer of the gods and became immortal.
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- gaoxiong — Kaohsiung.
- gap year — a period of time, usually an academic or calendar year, in which a student takes a break from school to travel, work, or volunteer, typically after ending high school and before starting college.
- gap-fill — In language teaching, a gap-fill test is an exercise in which words are removed from a text and replaced with spaces. The learner has to fill each space with the missing word or a suitable word.
- gapeseed — a daydream or reverie.
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- gapingly — In a gaping way.
- garaging — a building or indoor area for parking or storing motor vehicles.
- garagist — a person who owns a commercial garage
- garamond — a printing type designed in 1540 by Claude Garamond (c1480–1561), French type founder.
- garbaged — Simple past tense and past participle of garbage.
- garbages — discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
- garbagey — Like garbage; trashy, worthless.
- garbanzo — chickpea (def 1).
- garbling — Present participle of garble.
- garboard — The first range of planks or plates laid on a ship’s bottom next to the keel.