8-letter words containing g, e, i, s
- signable — suitable for signing, as in being satisfactory, appropriate, or complete: a signable legislative bill.
- signaled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- signieur — a lord
- signifie — (in linguistics) the signified.
- signless — without a sign or sign-board
- signoret — Simone (simɔ̃), original name Simone Kaminker. 1921–85, French stage and film actress, whose films include La Ronde (1950), Casque d'Or (1952), Room at the Top (1958), and Ship of Fools (1965): married the actor and singer Yves Montand (1921–91)
- singable — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- sirening — Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- skeeting — to spit (saliva or a mouthful of other liquid) from the mouth, especially between the teeth.
- sleaving — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- sledding — a small vehicle consisting of a platform mounted on runners for use in traveling over snow or ice.
- sledging — the activity of travelling across snow on a sledge
- sleeping — the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- sleeting — precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- sleeving — the part of a garment that covers the arm, varying in form and length but commonly tubular.
- slighted — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- slippage — an act or instance of slipping.
- sloe gin — a cordial or liqueur made from gin flavored with sloes.
- smelting — to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
- smidgeon — a very small amount: a smidgen of jam for your toast.
- sneaking — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- sneering — to smile, laugh, or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn or contempt: They sneered at his pretensions.
- sniggler — to fish for eels by thrusting a baited hook into their lurking places.
- snuggies — warm knitted underwear, especially long underpants, for women or children.
- sobering — not intoxicated or drunk.
- solfeggi — a vocal exercise in which the sol-fa syllables are used.
- solingen — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr region.
- speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- spearing — a sprout or shoot of a plant, as a blade of grass or an acrospire of grain.
- spec'ing — Usually, specs. specification (def 2).
- speccing — Usually, specs. specification (def 2).
- specking — a small spot differing in color or substance from that of the surface or material upon which it appears or lies: Specks of soot on the window sill.
- speeding — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- spelling — a continuous course or period of work or other activity: to take a spell at the wheel.
- spending — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
- spenting — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- sphinges — a figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man or an animal and the body of a lion. (usually initial capital letter) the colossal recumbent stone figure of this kind near the pyramids of Giza.
- spillage — the act or process of spilling.
- spoilage — the act of spoiling or the state of being spoiled.
- sprigged — a small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
- springed — a snare for catching small game.
- springer — a person or thing that springs.
- squiggle — a short, irregular curve or twist, as in writing or drawing.
- squilgee — squeegee.
- squirage — squires considered as a whole group
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- stealing — Informal. an act of stealing; theft.
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steeling — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- steeping — to soak in water or other liquid, as to soften, cleanse, or extract some constituent: to steep tea in boiling-hot water; to steep reeds for basket weaving.