9-letter words containing a, n, t, e, g
- attending — having primary responsibility for a patient.
- attesting — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.
- attingent — touching; in contact.
- augmented — (of an interval) increased or expanded from the state of being perfect or major by the raising of the higher note or the dropping of the lower note by one semitone
- augmenter — a person or thing that augments.
- augmentin — (medicine) The antibiotic amoxicillin.
- augmentor — a person or thing that augments.
- augustine — Saint. 354–430 ad, one of the Fathers of the Christian Church; bishop of Hippo in North Africa (396–430), who profoundly influenced both Catholic and Protestant theology. His most famous works are Confessions, a spiritual autobiography, and De Civitate Dei, a vindication of the Christian Church. Feast day: Aug 28
- autogenic — Self-produced.
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- batteling — Alternative form of battling.
- battening — to thrive by feeding; grow fat.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- beastings — beestings
- benignant — kind; gracious, as a king to his subjects
- bentgrass — any perennial grass of the genus Agrostis, esp A. tenuis, which has a spreading panicle of tiny flowers. Some species are planted for hay or in lawns
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
- cantering — an easy gallop.
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- cartagena — a port in NW Colombia, on the Caribbean: centre for the Inquisition and the slave trade in the 16th century; chief oil port of Colombia. Pop: 1 002 000 (2005 est)
- cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
- castering — a person or thing that casts.
- centigram — one hundredth of a gram
- chelating — Having the ability to undergo chelation.
- cingulate — Anatomy, Zoology. a belt, zone, or girdlelike part.
- clientage — a body of clients; clientele.
- cognately — In a way that is cognate.
- conestoga — a large, heavy, broad-wheeled covered wagon, used especially for transporting pioneers and freight across North America during the early westward migration.
- conjugate — When pupils or teachers conjugate a verb, they give its different forms in a particular order.
- cotangent — (of an angle) a trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the adjacent side to that of the opposite side; the reciprocal of tangent
- cratering — the process in which many craters are formed on a surface, as on a moon
- cremating — Present participle of cremate.
- daghestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- decanting — to pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
- defeating — Present participle of defeat.
- deflating — to release the air or gas from (something inflated, as a balloon): They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.
- delignate — (rare, transitive) To clear or strip of wood.
- denegated — Simple past tense and past participle of denegate.
- denigrate — If you denigrate someone or something, you criticize them unfairly or insult them.
- dentalgia — Toothache.
- departing — to go away; leave: She departed from Paris today. The train departs at 10:52.
- desalting — Present participle of desalt.
- designate — When you designate someone as something, you formally choose them to do that particular job.
- detaching — Present participle of detach.
- detailing — an individual or minute part; an item or particular.
- detaining — Present participle of detain.
- detangled — Simple past tense and past participle of detangle.