8-letter words containing a, r, g, u
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- burn bag — a special bag into which discarded secret or sensitive documents are placed for burning.
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- carucage — the tax due on a carucate
- choragus — the leader of a chorus
- churinga — a sacred amulet of the native Australians
- cingular — ring-shaped; girdle-like
- clangour — a loud resonant often-repeated noise
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- courages — the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curraghs — Plural form of curragh.
- cutgrass — the general name for any grass of the genus Leersia, native to the Americas and Eurasia
- daguerre — Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- drag out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drag-out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughty — characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.
- dunaburg — German name of Daugavpils.
- dungaree — dungarees. work clothes, overalls, etc., of blue denim. blue jeans.
- durgapur — a city in S West Bengal State, NE India.
- earplugs — Plural form of earplug.
- farragut — David Glasgow, 1801–70, U.S. admiral: won the battles of New Orleans and Mobile Bay for the Union in the U.S. Civil War.
- faubourg — a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.
- feldgrau — the shade of grey worn by German soldiers in World War II
- figurant — a ballet dancer who does not perform solo.
- figurate — Forming a figure.
- fraughts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fraught.
- frautage — cargo
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- fruitage — the bearing of fruit: soil additives to hasten the fruitage.
- fulgural — of or relating to lightning
- furigana — (human language, Japanese) (Or "rubi") Small hiragana, written above kanji (and these days sometimes above Latin characters) as a phonetic comment and reading aid. The singular and plural are both "furigana".
- gaboriau — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1835–73, French author of detective stories.
- gag rule — any rule restricting open discussion or debate concerning a given issue, especially in a deliberative body.
- galerius — full name Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus. ?250–311 ad, Eastern Roman Emperor (305–311): noted for his persecution of Christians
- 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.
- gaultier — Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). born 1952, French fashion designer
- gazunder — (of a buyer) lower the amount of an offer made on a property and accepted by (a seller) at the time of final negotiations.
- geranium — any of numerous plants of the genus Geranium, which comprises the crane's-bills.
- gestural — a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.: the gestures of an orator; a threatening gesture.
- glabrous — having a surface devoid of hair or pubescence.
- glamours — Plural form of glamour.
- glamoury — (obsolete) magic.
- glareous — growing in gravel
- globular — globe-shaped; spherical.
- glue ear — accumulation of fluid in the middle ear in children, caused by infection and sometimes resulting in deafness