9-letter words containing a, g, i, t
- fightback — A fightback is an effort made by a person or group of people to get back into a strong position when they seem likely to lose something such as an election or an important sports match.
- figurante — a ballerina who does not perform solo.
- figurants — Plural form of figurant.
- film gate — (in motion-picture cameras and projectors) a mechanism that holds the film flat in the focal plane of the lens during exposure or projection.
- flagitate — to importune (someone), to demand of or entreat (someone) with passion and earnestness
- flagitous — (archaic) wicked, reprehensible.
- flagstick — pin (def 13).
- flatlings — with the flat side, as of a sword
- flaunting — Present participle of flaunt.
- fogramity — a fogey or antiquated thing
- formating — Misspelling of formatting.
- fortilage — (obsolete) A little fort; a blockhouse.
- fragility — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- fratching — a quarrel; argument; dispute.
- frigatoon — a Venetian sailing ship with a square stern
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- fumigants — Plural form of fumigant.
- fumigated — Simple past tense and past participle of fumigate.
- fumigator — a person or thing that fumigates.
- fungistat — a fungistatic substance or preparation.
- fustigate — to cudgel; beat; punish severely.
- gabaonite — Gibeonite.
- gain time — delay sth for advantage
- gaitskell — Hugh Todd Naylor [ney-ler] /ˈneɪ lər/ (Show IPA), 1906–63, English economist and statesman: Labour party leader 1955–63.
- galactico — (football) A football superstar.
- galactoid — resembling milk; milky.
- galantine — a dish of boned poultry, wrapped in its skin and poached in gelatin stock, pressed, and served cold with aspic or its own jelly.
- galatians — a book in the New Testament, written to the Christians in Galatia. Abbreviation: Gal.
- galbraith — John Kenneth, 1908–2006, U.S. economist, born in Canada.
- gall mite — a mite of the family Eriophyidae that feeds on plant juices, damaging buds, leaves, and twigs and causing galls and other deformities.
- gallerist — The owner or operator of an art gallery.
- gallipots — Plural form of gallipot.
- gallivant — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
- galvanist — a person who studies or practises galvanism
- gangliate — having ganglia.
- gannister — ganister
- gantlines — Plural form of gantline.
- garagiste — a small-scale entrepreneurial wine-maker, originally from the Bordeaux region of France, esp one who does not adhere to the traditions of wine-making
- garniture — something that garnishes; decoration; adornment.
- garotting — to execute by the garrote.
- garroting — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garrulity — the quality of being garrulous; talkativeness; loquacity.
- gartering — Present participle of garter.
- gas giant — one of the four planets in our solar system that are composed chiefly of hydrogen and helium, namely Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
- gaslights — (British) Plural form of gaslight.
- gastrique — A syrupy reduction of vinegar (or wine) and sugar.
- gastritis — inflammation of the stomach, especially of its mucous membrane.
- gathering — a drawing together; contraction.
- gauleiter — the leader or chief official of a political district under Nazi control.