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7-letter words containing d, i, n, g

  • regrind — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
  • reigned — the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
  • rending — to separate into parts with force or violence: The storm rent the ship to pieces.
  • ridding — to clear, disencumber, or free of something objectionable (usually followed by of): I want to rid the house of mice. In my opinion, you'd be wise to rid yourself of the smoking habit.
  • ridging — a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
  • rigodon — a lively dance, formerly popular, for one couple, characterized by a jumping step and usually in quick duple meter.
  • roading — the building of roads
  • rodding — a stick, wand, staff, or the like, of wood, metal, or other material.
  • sanding — the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
  • seeding — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
  • shading — the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.
  • shindig — an elaborate or large dance, party, or other celebration.
  • sidling — to move sideways or obliquely.
  • siganid — any fish of the family Siganidae, comprising the rabbitfishes.
  • sigmund — (in the Volsunga Saga) the son of Volsung and Liod; the father, through his sister, Signy, of Sinfjotli; the husband first of Borghild, then of Hjordis; and the father of Sigurd.
  • sliding — rising or falling, increasing or decreasing, according to a standard or to a set of conditions.
  • smidgen — a very small amount: a smidgen of jam for your toast.
  • sodding — sodomite; homosexual.
  • sogdian — a native or inhabitant of Sogdiana.
  • spading — a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.
  • sudsing — soapy water.
  • sueding — kid or other leather finished with a soft, napped surface, on the flesh side or on the outer side after removal of a thin outer layer.
  • swinged — to singe.
  • tedding — to spread out for drying, as newly mown hay.
  • tending — to attend by action, care, etc. (usually followed by to).
  • tidings — news, information, or intelligence: sad tidings.
  • tidying — neat, orderly, or trim, as in appearance or dress: a tidy room; a tidy person.
  • tin god — a self-important, dictatorial person in a position of authority, as an employer, military officer, critic, or teacher.
  • trading — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
  • undight — to remove or take off (clothing)
  • undoing — the reversing of what has been done; annulling.
  • undying — deathless; unending.
  • unrigid — stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a rigid strip of metal.
  • vending — to sell as one's business or occupation, especially by peddling: to vend flowers at a sidewalk stand.
  • voiding — the discharging of waste matter from the body
  • wadding — a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
  • warding — a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.
  • wedding — the act or ceremony of marrying; marriage; nuptials.
  • wedging — a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Compare machine (def 3b).
  • weeding — a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
  • welding — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
  • wendigo — Alternative spelling of windigo.
  • wending — to pursue or direct (one's way).
  • whinged — Simple past tense and past participle of whing.
  • widgeon — any of several common freshwater ducks related to the mallards and teals in the genus Anas, having metallic green flight feathers, a white wing patch, and a buff or white forehead, including A. penelope of Eurasia and North Africa, A. sibilatrix of South America, and the baldpate, A. americana, of North America.
  • wilding — Often, wilds. an uncultivated, uninhabited, or desolate region or tract; waste; wilderness; desert: a cabin in the wild; a safari to the wilds of Africa.
  • windage — the influence of the wind in deflecting a missile.
  • windbag — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
  • windgun — an air gun
  • windigo — (in the folklore of the Ojibwa and other Indians) a cannibalistic giant, the transformation of a person who has eaten human flesh.
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