8-letter words containing a, g, n, t
- gangster — a member of a gang of criminals, especially a racketeer.
- ganister — a highly refractory, siliceous rock used to line furnaces.
- gannetry — a gannet breeding-ground
- gantlets — Plural form of gantlet.
- gantline — a rope rove through a single block hung from a mast, funnel, etc., as a means of hoisting workers, tools, flags, or the like.
- gantlope — gauntlet2 .
- gantries — Plural form of gantry.
- garments — Plural form of garment.
- garoting — to execute by the garrote.
- gas tank — a tank containing the gasoline supply in a car, truck, or other gasoline-engine vehicle.
- gastness — terror or fright.
- gastonia — a city in S North Carolina, W of Charlotte.
- gatineau — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Hull.
- 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.
- gazement — a stare; look; view
- gelatine — a nearly transparent, faintly yellow, odorless, and almost tasteless glutinous substance obtained by boiling in water the ligaments, bones, skin, etc., of animals, and forming the basis of jellies, glues, and the like.
- gelatins — Plural form of gelatin.
- gelation — the process of gelling.
- geminate — Also, geminated. combined or arranged in pairs; twin; coupled.
- generant — something that generates
- generate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- genitals — Synonym of genitalia.
- gentians — Plural form of gentian.
- giantess — an imaginary female being of human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
- giantism — Pathology. gigantism.
- gigantic — very large; huge: a gigantic statue.
- gigatons — Plural form of gigaton.
- glasnost — the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.
- gloating — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- gnathion — Craniometry. the lowest point on the anterior margin of the lower jaw in the midsaggital plane.
- gnathite — any of the mouth appendages of an insect or other arthropod.
- gnatling — a small gnat
- gnatwren — a small bird of the gnatcatcher family
- go-train — a lightweight passenger train providing rapid surface transport between a city center and the suburbs and from suburb to suburb.
- goatling — a young goat
- goatskin — the skin or hide of a goat.
- gradient — the degree of inclination, or the rate of ascent or descent, in a highway, railroad, etc.
- grafting — the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
- grandest — impressive in size, appearance, or general effect: grand mountain scenery.
- granitas — Plural form of granita.
- granites — Plural form of granite.
- granitic — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- grantees — Plural form of grantee.
- granters — Plural form of granter.
- grantham — a town in E England, in Lincolnshire: birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher. Pop: 34 592 (2001)
- granting — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- grantors — Plural form of grantor.
- gratinee — to cook (food) au gratin
- gratings — Plural form of grating.