8-letter words containing ge
- naufrage — (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin.
- neckgear — any form of clothing or apparel worn around the neck
- negligee — a dressing gown or robe, usually of sheer fabric and having soft, flowing lines, worn by women.
- new ager — a believer in New Age
- nigerian — a republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 356,669 sq. mi. (923,773 sq. km). Capital: Abuja.
- nigerien — a republic in NW Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 458,976 sq. mi. (1,188,748 sq. km). Capital: Niamey.
- nijmegen — a city in the E Netherlands, on the Waal River: peace treaty 1678.
- nimwegen — German name of Nijmegen.
- nitrogen — a colorless, odorless, gaseous element that constitutes about four-fifths of the volume of the atmosphere and is present in combined form in animal and vegetable tissues, especially in proteins: used chiefly in the manufacture of ammonia, nitric acid, cyanide, explosives, fertilizer, dyes, as a cooling agent, etc. Symbol: N; atomic weight: 14.0067; atomic number: 7; density: 1.2506 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- nomogeny — a law or belief that life originated from a natural process instead of a miraculous process
- nonimage — That which is not an image.
- norridge — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- nutsedge — An invasive sedge with small edible nutlike tubers.
- nymwegen — Nijmegen.
- obligees — Plural form of obligee.
- ocmulgee — a river in NW Georgia, flowing SE to join the Oconee River and form the Altamaha River. 255 miles (410 km) long.
- offstage — off the stage or in the wings; away from the view of the audience (opposed to onstage).
- ogeechee — a river in E Georgia, flowing SE to the Atlantic Ocean. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- okmulgee — a city in E Oklahoma.
- oligemia — Alt form olig\u00e6mia.
- oncogene — any gene that is a causative factor in the initiation of cancerous growth.
- ontogeny — the development or developmental history of an individual organism.
- oo gauge — a model railroad gauge of 3/4 inch (19 mm).
- oral gel — An oral gel is a semi-solid, jelly-like substance that is applied in the mouth.
- orangelo — A citrus fruit that is a cross between an orange and a grapefruit.
- orangery — a warm place, as a greenhouse, in which orange trees are cultivated in cool climates.
- orogenic — (geology) Concerned with orogeny; pertaining to the creation of mountains.
- osteogen — (physiology) The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.
- ostreger — a keeper of hawks
- outbulge — to bulge outwards
- outdodge — to surpass in dodging
- outraged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrage.
- outrages — Plural form of outrage.
- outrange — to have a longer or greater range than.
- over-age — If you are over-age, you are officially too old to do something.
- overaged — Aged too much.
- overages — Plural form of overage.
- overedge — (sewing) To overlock.
- overgear — to cause (a company) to have too high a proportion of loan stock and preference shares in comparison to its ordinary share capital
- overurge — to urge too strongly
- oxbridge — Oxford or Cambridge University, or both, especially in contrast with the redbrick universities of England.
- packager — a person or business firm that packages a product or merchandise for commercial sale: a soap packager.
- page out — (storage, architecture) What a paging system does when it copies part of a task's working memory from RAM to swap space on disk.
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- pageview — one viewing of a web page; a single visit: Tracking pageviews is a way of predicting the advertising potential of a website.
- paragoge — the addition of a sound or group of sounds at the end of a word, as in the nonstandard pronunciation of height as height-th or once as once-t.
- pargeter — a plasterer
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- phalange — a phalanx.
- phosgene — a poisonous, colorless, very volatile liquid or suffocating gas, COCl 2 , a chemical-warfare compound: used chiefly in organic synthesis.