8-letter words that end in ge
- greenage — of the color of growing foliage, between yellow and blue in the spectrum: green leaves.
- grillage — a framework of crossing beams used for spreading heavy loads over large areas.
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- guardage — the state of being in the care of a guardian
- hardinge — Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore. 1785–1856, British politician, soldier, and colonial administrator; governor general of India (1844–48)
- helotage — a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state. Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- heritage — something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition: a national heritage of honor, pride, and courage.
- hl hinge — a surface-mounted hinge that when applied resembles H and L combined.
- ho gauge — a model railroad gauge of 5/8 inches (16 mm).
- homepage — Alternative form of home page.
- horologe — any instrument for indicating the time, especially a sundial or an early form of clock.
- id badge — a badge that serves to identify the person wearing it
- impledge — to pledge
- implunge — to submerge
- in large — as a totality or on a broad scale
- infringe — to commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress: to infringe a copyright; to infringe a rule.
- interage — the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- iron age — the period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron.
- jazz age — the period that in the U.S. extended roughly from the Armistice of 1918 to the stock-market crash of 1929 and was notable for increased prosperity, liberated or hedonistic social behavior, Prohibition and the concomitant rise in production and consumption of bootleg liquor, and the development and dissemination of jazz and ragtime and associated ballroom dances.
- la farge — John, 1835–1910, U.S. painter, stained-glass designer, and writer.
- lagrange — Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), Comte, 1736–1813, French mathematician and astronomer.
- langauge — Misspelling of language.
- langrage — a kind of shot consisting of bolts, nails, etc., fastened together or enclosed in a case, formerly used for damaging sails and rigging in sea battles.
- language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
- layerage — layering
- leverage — the action of a lever, 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.
- litharge — a yellowish or reddish, odorless, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, PbO, used chiefly in the manufacture of storage batteries, pottery, lead glass, paints, enamels, and inks.
- litreage — a capacity measured in litres
- malaxage — the act of kneading or softening unbaked pottery clay
- man page — Unix manual page
- maritage — the right of a lord to choose the spouses of his wards
- marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- masstige — noting or pertaining to goods that are perceived to have prestige or high style but are affordable for a wide range of customers: This five-dollar bottle of hand cream is aimed at the masstige market.
- maubeuge — a city in N France, on the Sambre River, near the Belgian border.
- meshugge — Crazy, mad, senseless, insane.
- messuage — a dwelling house with its adjacent buildings and the lands appropriated to the use of the household.
- metayage — the system of agriculture based on the use of métayers.
- meterage — the practice of measuring; measurement.
- midhinge — (statistics) A measure of location of a batch or sample equal to the average of the first and third quartiles. Equivalently, it is the 25% trimmed mid-range;.
- midrange — of, relating to, or occupying the middle audio frequencies: a midrange frequency.
- misgauge — To gauge (measure) incorrectly.
- misjudge — Form a wrong opinion or conclusion about.
- mislodge — to lodge or accommodate wrongly
- misusage — wrong or improper usage, as of words.
- mornynge — Obsolete spelling of morning.
- mortgage — the rights conferred by it, or the state of the property conveyed.
- mucilage — any of various, usually liquid, preparations of gum, glue, or the like, used as an adhesive.
- multiage — Concerning more than one age.
- mumblage — /muhm'bl*j/ The topic of one's mumbling (see mumble). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when "mumble" is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
- naufrage — (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin.