8-letter words that end in age
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- droppage — an amount dropped or wasted during application, installation, etc.: Mix some extra plaster to allow for droppage.
- enallage — (uncountable, rhetoric) Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
- endamage — (archaic) To damage.
- ensilage — The process of producing silage by the fermentation of green fodder.
- envisage — Contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event.
- equipage — The equipment for a particular purpose.
- ferriage — conveyance or transportation by a ferryboat.
- floatage — an act of floating.
- floorage — floor space.
- fly page — banner
- footpage — an errand-boy
- frautage — cargo
- frondage — (collectively) the fronds (of a plant)
- frontage — the front of a building or lot.
- frottage — a technique in the visual arts of obtaining textural effects or images by rubbing lead, chalk, charcoal, etc., over paper laid on a granular or relieflike surface. Compare rubbing (def 2).
- fruitage — the bearing of fruit: soil additives to hasten the fruitage.
- fuselage — the complete central structure to which the wing, tail surfaces, and engines are attached on an airplane.
- graftage — the art or practice of inserting a part of one plant into another plant in such a way that the two will unite and continue their growth.
- grainage — the duty paid on grain
- grammage — the weight of paper expressed as grams per square metre
- 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
- 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.
- homepage — Alternative form of home page.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- misusage — wrong or improper usage, as of words.
- 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.
- nonimage — That which is not an image.