8-letter words containing ger
- graggers — Plural form of gragger.
- grainger — Percy Aldridge [awl-drij] /ˈɔl drɪdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1961, Australian pianist and composer, in the U.S. after 1915.
- grangers — Plural form of granger.
- groggery — a slightly disreputable barroom.
- hedgerow — a row of bushes or trees forming a hedge.
- hoggerel — a sheep in its second or third year
- holliger — Heinz (haints). born 1939, Swiss oboist and composer
- honegger — Arthur [ahr-ther;; French ar-too r] /ˈɑr θər;; French arˈtʊər/ (Show IPA), 1892–1955, Swiss composer, born in France.
- hungered — Simple past tense and past participle of hunger.
- hungerly — marked by a hungry look.
- impinger — Any of several instruments in which fine particles (dust) in a gas are analysed by blowing them through a jet onto a wetted plate, prior to being counted.
- indulger — to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
- inrigger — a rowboat having oarlocks on the gunwales.
- integers — Mathematics. one of the positive or negative numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., or zero. Compare whole number.
- jiggered — confounded; damned: I'm jiggered if I know what that sign means.
- kangeroo — Archaic form of kangaroo.
- kedgeree — East Indian Cookery. a cooked dish consisting of rice, lentils, and spices.
- lagering — a camp or encampment, especially within a protective circle of wagons.
- lagerlof — Selma (Ottiliana Lovisa) [sel-mah awt-ti-lee-ah-nah loo-vi-sah] /ˈsɛl mɑ ˌɔt tɪ liˈɑ nɑ ˈlu vɪˌsɑ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1940, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1909.
- langered — (slang, Ireland) extremely drunk.
- legerity — physical or mental quickness; nimbleness; agility.
- lingered — to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: We lingered awhile after the party.
- lingerer — Agent noun of linger; one who lingers.
- lingerie — underwear, sleepwear, and other items of intimate apparel worn by women.
- longeron — a main longitudinal brace or support on an airplane.
- loungers — Plural form of lounger.
- malinger — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
- managers — Plural form of manager.
- managery — Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
- massager — the act or art of treating the body by rubbing, kneading, patting, or the like, to stimulate circulation, increase suppleness, relieve tension, etc.
- meagered — Simple past tense and past participle of meager.
- meagerly — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meleager — flourished 1st century b.c, Greek epigrammatist.
- messager — One who sends a message.
- mongered — Simple past tense and past participle of monger.
- monogerm — having or coming from a seed that will only develop into a single plant
- 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.
- orangery — a warm place, as a greenhouse, in which orange trees are cultivated in cool climates.
- ostreger — a keeper of hawks
- packager — a person or business firm that packages a product or merchandise for commercial sale: a soap packager.
- pillager — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- preggers — pregnant1 (def 1).
- presager — a presentiment or foreboding.
- priggery — the conduct or character of a prig.
- progeria — a rare congenital abnormality characterized by premature and rapid aging, the affected individual appearing in childhood as an aged person and having a shortened life span.
- rejigger — to change or rearrange in a new or different way, especially by the use of techniques not always considered ethical.
- roger ii — 1095–1154, Norman king of Sicily (1130–54). His court was an intellectual centre for Muslim and Christian scholars
- rummager — to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.