8-letter words that end in g
- knurling — a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
- kopfring — a metal ring welded to the nose of a bomb to reduce its penetration in earth or water.
- kornberg — Arthur, 1918–2007, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
- kotowing — Present participle of kotow.
- krumping — a type of dancing in which participants, often wearing face paint, dance with one another in a fast and aggressive style mimicking a fight but without any physical contact
- kvelling — to be extraordinarily pleased; especially, to be bursting with pride, as over one's family.
- kwantung — Older Spelling. Guandong.
- kweiyang — Guiyang.
- labeling — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- lace bug — any of several bugs of the family Tingidae, characterized by a lacy pattern of ridges on the head, thorax, and wings, and feeding on the leaves of oak, birch, sycamore, etc.
- lacewing — any of several insects of the family Chrysopidae, having delicate, lacelike wings and golden or copper-colored eyes, the larvae of which are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- lagering — a camp or encampment, especially within a protective circle of wagons.
- lake zug — a lake in N central Switzerland, in Zug and Schwyz cantons. Area: 39 sq km (15 sq miles)
- lallygag — to spend time idly; loaf.
- lambling — a small lamb
- lansberg — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 29 miles (46 km) in diameter.
- lantsang — Chinese name of Mekong.
- lard pig — a large type of pig used principally for lard
- lasering — Present participle of laser.
- lassoing — a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.
- latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- laughing — that laughs or is given to laughter: a laughing child.
- layering — a thickness of some material laid on or spread over a surface: a layer of soot on the window sill; two layers of paint.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- learning — knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application.
- leeching — any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
- leesburg — a city in central Florida.
- leftwing — Alternative spelling of left-wing.
- letching — a lecherous desire or craving.
- leveeing — Present participle of levee.
- leveling — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- levering — Mechanics. a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third. Compare machine (def 4b).
- liaising — to form a liaison.
- liaodong — a peninsula in NE China, extending S into the Yellow Sea.
- liaoning — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
- liaoyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a city in central Liaoning province, in NE China.
- libeling — Law. defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures. the act or crime of publishing it. a formal written declaration or statement, as one containing the allegations of a plaintiff or the grounds of a charge.
- liefling — (South Africa) One held as lief or dear; a darling.
- lifelong — lasting or continuing through all or much of one's life: lifelong regret.
- ligating — Present participle of ligate.
- lighting — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- likening — to represent as similar or like; compare: to liken someone to a weasel.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- limiting — serving to restrict or restrain; restrictive; confining.
- littling — a young child or animal
- liu pang — 247–195 b.c, Chinese emperor: founder of the Han dynasty 202 b.c.
- liveblog — a blog containing entries about an event that are written and posted while the event is taking place.
- livelong — (of time) whole or entire, especially when tediously long, slow in passing, etc.: We picked apples the livelong day.