8-letter words that end in g
- orenburg — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River.
- osmosing — Present participle of osmose.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- ossining — a town in SE New York, on the Hudson: the site of a state prison formerly known as Sing Sing.
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- outdoing — Present participle of outdo.
- outfling — (intransitive) To fling outward.
- outgoing — going out; departing: outgoing trains.
- outlying — lying at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way: outlying military posts.
- outsting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- outswing — (cricket) The swing of the ball through the air, in a direction away from the batsman.
- outswung — made to curve outwards
- outvying — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- over-egg — to do too much of; elaborate on excessively; overdo: used mainly in the phrase over-egg the (or one's) pudding, to mar an undertaking by doing more than is necessary or desirable
- overgang — to dominate
- overhang — to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
- overhung — simple past tense and past participle of overhang.
- overking — a supreme king
- overlong — too or excessively long
- overwing — to fly above
- p-prolog — (language) A parallel logic language.
- packfong — a Chinese cupronickel alloy
- painting — a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
- paneling — a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
- pant leg — a leg of a pair of pants.
- parading — a large public procession, usually including a marching band and often of a festive nature, held in honor of an anniversary, person, event, etc.
- parasang — an ancient Persian unit of distance, equal to about 3.5 miles (5.6 km).
- parawing — paraglider.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- partying — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- peaching — to inform against an accomplice or associate.
- pearling — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- peat bog — a swamp in which peat has accumulated.
- pebbling — a small, rounded stone, especially one worn smooth by the action of water.
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- peddling — trifling; paltry; piddling.
- peiching — Beijing.
- peopling — persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think?
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- petering — to diminish gradually and stop; dwindle to nothing: The hot water always peters out in the middle of my shower.
- pettifog — to be a pettifogger
- pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
- philabeg — filibeg.
- philibeg — the kilt or pleated skirt worn by Scottish Highlanders.
- phishing — to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users, typically by sending an email that looks as if it is from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phubbing — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- pickling — a cucumber that has been preserved in brine, vinegar, or the like.
- piddling — amounting to very little; trifling; negligible: a piddling sum of money.
- piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.