8-letter words containing ga
- derogate — to cause to seem inferior or be in disrepute; detract
- die game — to die bravely and still fighting
- diggable — capable of being dug
- disgavel — to free from the tenure of gavelkind: to disgavel an estate.
- divagate — to wander; stray.
- dungaree — dungarees. work clothes, overalls, etc., of blue denim. blue jeans.
- durgapur — a city in S West Bengal State, NE India.
- e galaxy — a type of galaxy having the shape of a spheroid or ellipsoid, rather than a disk.
- eargasms — Plural form of eargasm.
- elegance — The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style.
- elegancy — Alternative form of elegance.
- elongate — Make (something) longer, especially unusually so in relation to its width.
- en garde — ready to defend oneself
- endgames — Plural form of endgame.
- endogamy — The custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe.
- engadine — the upper part of the valley of the River Inn in Switzerland, in Graubünden canton: tourist and winter sports centre
- engaging — Charming and attractive.
- epigamic — attractive to the opposite sex
- ergastic — consisting of the non-living by-products of protoplasmic activity
- ergative — Relating to or denoting a case of nouns (in some languages, e.g., Basque and Eskimo) that identifies the subject of a transitive verb and is different from the case that identifies the subject of an intransitive verb.
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- evulgate — to make public; to divulge
- fanagalo — a lingua franca based on English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and Zulu, used especially in the mines of South Africa.
- fanegada — a unit of land measure in Spanish-speaking countries varying from 1.25 to 1.75 acres (0.5 to 0.7 hectare).
- flanagan — Edward Joseph ("Father Flanagan") 1886–1948, U.S. Roman Catholic priest, born in Ireland: founder of a farm village for wayward boys.
- flue gas — the smoke in the uptake of a boiler fire: it consists mainly of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen
- fluxgate — (physics) Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.
- for gain — If you do something for gain, you do it in order to get some advantage or profit for yourself, and for no other reason.
- fougasse — a type of bread made with olive oil
- freegans — Plural form of freegan.
- frigates — Plural form of frigate.
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- fumigant — any volatile or volatilizable chemical compound used as a disinfectant or pesticide.
- fumigate — to expose to smoke or fumes, as in disinfecting or exterminating roaches, ants, etc.
- furigana — (human language, Japanese) (Or "rubi") Small hiragana, written above kanji (and these days sometimes above Latin characters) as a phonetic comment and reading aid. The singular and plural are both "furigana".
- gabbiest — Superlative form of gabby.
- gabblers — Plural form of gabbler.
- gabbling — Present participle of gabble.
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- gabbroid — gabbro-like, esp of a rock in the petrographic clan which contains the gabbro family
- gabeller — a person who collected the gabelle; a tax-collector
- gabfests — a gathering at which there is a great deal of conversation.
- gabonese — of or relating to Gabon or its inhabitants.
- gaboriau — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1835–73, French author of detective stories.
- gaborone — a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 275,000 sq. mi. (712,250 sq. km). Capital: Gaborone.
- gabrieli — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1510–86, Italian organist and composer.
- gadabout — a person who moves about restlessly or aimlessly, especially from one social activity to another.
- gadarene — relating to or engaged in a headlong rush
- gadflies — Plural form of gadfly.