8-letter words starting with g
- gas ring — A gas ring is a metal device on top of a cooker or stove, where you can burn gas in order to cook food on it.
- gas tank — a tank containing the gasoline supply in a car, truck, or other gasoline-engine vehicle.
- gas tube — an electron tube the envelope of which contains a highly rarefied gas.
- gas well — a well from which natural gas is obtained.
- gasalier — A gas-powered chandelier.
- gascogne — Gascony
- gaselier — Alt form gasalier.
- gasfield — a subterranean area where natural gas is found
- gashings — Plural form of gashing.
- gashouse — gasworks.
- gasified — Simple past tense and past participle of gasify.
- gasifier — An apparatus used to perform gasification.
- gasifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gasify.
- gasiform — having the form of gas; gaseous.
- gaslight — light produced by the combustion of illuminating gas.
- gasogene — gazogene.
- gasolene — gasoline.
- gasolier — a chandelier furnished with gaslights.
- gasoline — a volatile, flammable liquid mixture of hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, and used as fuel for internal-combustion engines, as a solvent, etc.
- gassendi — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1592–1655, French philosopher and scientist.
- gassings — Plural form of gassing.
- gasteral — Of or pertaining to the stomach.
- gastero- — gastro-
- gastfull — dismal; dreary
- gasthaus — a German inn or tavern.
- gastight — not penetrable by a gas.
- gastness — terror or fright.
- gastonia — a city in S North Carolina, W of Charlotte.
- gastraea — a primeval double-walled sac-like form whose existence was hypothesized by Ernst Haeckel, who proposed that all animals were descended from it
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gastrula — a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.
- gasworks — a plant where heating and illuminating gas is manufactured and piped to homes and buildings.
- gate leg — a leg attached to a hinged frame that can be swung out to support a drop leaf.
- gatefold — foldout (def 1).
- gatepost — the vertical post on which a gate is suspended by hinges, or the post against which the gate is closed.
- gateways — Plural form of gateway.
- gathered — Simple past tense and past participle of gather.
- gatherer — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- gatineau — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Hull.
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- gauchely — In a gauche manner.
- gaudiest — Superlative form of gaudy.
- gaullism — a political movement in France led by Charles de Gaulle.
- gaullist — a supporter of the political principles of Charles Charles de Gaulle.
- gaultier — Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). born 1952, French fashion designer
- gaumless — gormless.
- gauntest — Superlative form of gaunt.
- gauntlet — a former punishment, chiefly military, in which the offender was made to run between two rows of men who struck at him with switches or weapons as he passed.
- gaussian — Karl Friedrich [kahrl free-drikh] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1777–1855, German mathematician and astronomer.
- gauziest — Superlative form of gauzy.