8-letter words containing a, s, g
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- asynergy — defective coordination between parts, as muscles or limbs, that normally act in unison.
- at sight — as soon as seen
- ats&gwtu — All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers Trade Union
- augments — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment.
- augsburg — a city in S Germany, in Bavaria: founded by the Romans in 14 bc; site of the diet that produced the Peace of Augsburg (1555), which ended the struggles between Lutherans and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire and established the principle that each ruler should determine the form of worship in his lands. Pop: 259 217 (2003 est)
- augurers — Plural form of augurer.
- auguries — Plural form of augury.
- augustan — characteristic of, denoting, or relating to the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar (63 bc–14 ad), his period, or the poets, notably Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, writing during his reign
- augustly — inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
- augustus — original name Gaius Octavianus; after his adoption by Julius Caesar (44 bc) known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus. 63 bc–14 ad, Roman statesman, a member of the second triumvirate (43 bc). After defeating Mark Antony at Actium (31 bc), he became first emperor of Rome, adopting the title Augustus (27 bc)
- avengers — to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult.
- averages — Achieve or amount to as an average rate or amount over a period of time.
- backings — Plural form of backing.
- backlogs — Plural form of backlog.
- baggages — Plural form of baggage.
- baghouse — a dust-filtering chamber consisting of fabric filter bags
- bagpipes — Bagpipes are a musical instrument that is traditionally played in Scotland. You play the bagpipes by blowing air through a pipe into a bag, and then squeezing the bag to force the air out through other pipes.
- bagworms — Plural form of bagworm.
- bailings — Plural form of bailing.
- balisage — a method of marking a land route with dim lighting so that vehicles can travel at higher speeds in blackout conditions.
- bandages — Plural form of bandage.
- bangster — a ruffian; thug
- bantengs — Plural form of banteng.
- bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
- bargains — Plural form of bargain.
- barghest — (in the North of England, esp Yorkshire) a goblin that appears in the shape of a dog as an omen of death or other misfortune
- barkings — Plural form of barking.
- barrages — Plural form of barrage.
- barrings — Plural form of barring.
- bashings — Plural form of bashing.
- bastogne — a town in SE Belgium: of strategic importance to Allied defences during the Battle of the Bulge; besieged by the Germans during the winter of 1944–45. Pop: 14 070 (2004 est)
- batangas — a port in the Philippines, in SW Luzon. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
- beadings — Plural form of beading.
- beanbags — Plural form of beanbag.
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- being as — You can use being as to introduce a reason for what you are saying.
- big easy — the New Orleans
- bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blue gas — water gas.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers